New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-04-17
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Tilton.
New York Sun April 1.

| In the mountain of gossip and rumor
about Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Tilton's pos
sible reconciliation and union, there is the
smallest possible grain of truth. The course
pursued in pu bic by Mr.. Tilton since the
failure of his suit for 800. ZOO is known. He
has lectured, with various degrees of popu-
larity and success. In private, as far as his
wife has been concerned, he has been anxious
for reconciliation, and has repeatedly
| sought opportunity to see his wife for the
purpose of persuading her.
It would be hard to imagine more DESC
late life than that led by Mrs. Tilton since
the trial. Many of her old friends,
many Of Mr.. Beecher's friends, re-
gard her weakness as the prime
cause of all subsequent trial and tribulation.
If Tilton's story is true, of course Mr..
Beecher's friends would dispise the woman.
On the other hand, if Mr.. Beecher's story is
true, Mrs. Tilton's Confession or .'accusa-
ton or whatever the document given by
her to her husband, was the wicked lever by
which her husband raised the social tumult.
Worried, weary, desiring to escape further
notoriety, Mrs. Tilton and her mother (Mrs.
Morse) went to dwell in what may be called
the outskirsts of Brooklyn. They avoided
church and lecture. rooms, and even denied
themselves the consolation of the Friday
evening talk. Mrs. Tilton was penniless.
It CHANGED that fearful Tommy Sherman,
| who has warmer heart than his legal trick
cries would at all times indicate. had spare
$50, 900 in hand, which on DIT was the re-
compense forced into his unwilling palm by
grateful and pastoral client. The income
of this is said to be applied to the need and
necessities of Mrs. Tilton, it being consider
ed hardly the fair thing to allow her to
suffer too much. In addition to this Mrs.
Tilton has given music lessons here and
there, and at one time essayed private
school.
But not being built in the heroic mould,
she sickened and broke down. In fact, she
was 50 very i'll and was broken down so
much, that her friends feared she might
break up. About this time reporters made
their appearance at the portals of the door
guarded by the lady Morse. If, through
mental neglect, one of them obtained access
to the parlor, he was so chilled by the calm
and strong glare of the maternal sentinel,
that he gladly beat a retreat. Thus matters
slowly refrigerated for weeks, and the winds
of winter gave place to the signs of spring,
IN all which time the son-in-law and hus-
band endeavored ingeniously to rewin the
wife of his youth and restore to his hearth
the partner of his previous choice.
But he endeavored in vain.
Some few weeks ago, for what reason no
one seems to know, Mrs. Morse yielded to
Tilton's desire to an extent, and brought
about a meeting between her daughter and
her son-in-law without the consent, conniv-
ance, OF knowledge of the for
mer. OF the details Of that
meeting it would be absurd to pretend to
now. The fact of meeting is all that is
nown, save that then and there Mrs. Tilton
told MI. Tilton distinctly that she would
never live with him again. There were no
lawyers, no friends, no children made par
ties to the consultation, and all the reported
going and coming of this, that, and the 9th
er child is simple fabrication. When the
parties separated it was distinctly under
stood that the children were-aN of them
common property, and subject to common
| discipline, free to be called by one or the
other as seemed best for them. And such
has been the constant habit.
In view Of Mr.. Tilton's strong desire, the
rapid growth of the children, Mrs. Tilton's
extreme debility, and Mrs. Morse's recent
conversion to the doctrine of reconciliation,
judges Of human nature in general, and a
few observers of the Tilton's in particular,
are confident of an ultimate scene of forgive
and forget-but it has not come yet, nor has
the first step toward it yet been taken.