Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-18
The Revival Of the Beecher Scandal,

The n. Y. Tribune reporter who interviewed
Mr.: Beecher says: There is nothing i'm Mrs.
new trial, and Mr.. Beecher will go right on
about his business and fill his lecture engage
ments as though nothing had happened, aud
He has received large number of dispatches.
to-day, assuring him that Mrs. Tilton's letter
has fallen fiat upon the country, and has pro-
Beecher said to me today If Mrs. TiIton felt
SO cOnScience-Stricken it would have been
natural for her to make her statement TO the
church, and not to the newspapers"
MRS. TILTON PRIVATE CONFESSION Priced
ING THE PUBLISHED STATEMENT.
The Tribune says: One of the leading men,
permit the use of his name, said yesterday:
Some three weeks ago my wife received
letter from Mrs. TiltOn. 1t was on purely per
sonal matters, and toward the close most uu-
eXpectedly dropped into discussion of her
guilt. Mrs. TiltOn there set forth the pointed
talsehOOd that she had never denied her guilt
That was false, and We called her attention to
the various occasions upon which she had
done so, she hung her head and did not know
what to say: The letter ran on i'm a sort of
written her daughterS-SO she wrote-but
which she did not think she should disclose to
Carroll until he was man. The times it
said, when you have seen me burst into those
parOXySmS OF tears, those were the times when
the burden on my conscience was unbearable,'
or something to that effect. Now, my wife
ySmS the worse she ever saw was a trembling
of her lips when she spoke of her children.
The first impulse of my wife was to throw the
letter in the fire: the second was so improve
the caution we had learned during the days of
the great trial: and so it was sent to Mr..
Beecher'S lawyers, who have ii now"
WHAT WILL PLYMOUTH CHURCH DO?
MIR. Sherman said that as MIR. BeecherS
counsel, he would not say what course the
church might take in the matter. His opinion
was that it would not take ii up at all He had
heard "A single q daSi ire
to stir it up. AS to Mrs. Tilton'S letter to the
lady who had committed it to his safe keep
ing, after mature deliberatiOn he had decided
not to give any part of it to the public: He had
in effect confession, almost Identical with
the one published by Mrs. Tilton herself
Mr. s. B. Halliday, the assistant pastor of
reporter what the effect of Mrs. Tiltons card
have any effect I'VE have had the same
the case can be reopened in any way by this
| 'ReOpened? No; L don't see how it can re-
open anything. don't think anybody wants
to NEEDLE in the affairs of Plymouth church
that in the past aWiii the church take any
action in regard to the letter published by Mrs.
TiltOn?" .! cannot speak for the church, but
my opinion it is not likely that any notice will
be taken of it. Plymouth church, as YOU
know, is very Independent organization, aD'
| there is no power on earth that can maxi :;
ion Is insane; Mind, | don't think : qP 2h.
think" Mrs Tilton is aer ns only " VIVA VIVA,
standing E. is she not ust as %oT
ton is taken viii it be- go Then, if any &C
Yes; SO long as fer SON IS member in peo,
anV othsr memh" Las Just as much right a
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