Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-17
Beecher said: II don't think you have any
more news than hare already received"

Beecher said: Il don't think you have any
more news than hare already received"
AGENT POND TALKS.
Pond, his agent, stated that the editorial
remark that the absence of Tilton, showed
he had nothing to do with preparing Mrs.
Tilton's confession is absurd. Tho rumor OF
this arrangement to my personal knowledge
has been known widely in the West for
long time, and Mr.. Beecher has been often
reminded of it. The charges of the Chicago
Tribune of April I'd, in an editorial fore
Swallowed the coming development and said
of Tilton that any such attempt must be
welcomed BY the public. It may be- true
Tilton had not acted directly, but that he
acts through his son, Carroll, no one ac-
quainted with the affair will deny.
In st. Louis and in Fl. Wayne, was told,
Tilton had threatened he would crush Beech
er yet. believe Beecher is convinced that
Mrs. Titan Is now under the absolute
control of her husband; that she loves him,
and that this letter Of confession Is the price
she pays for reconciliation, and they will be
living together before three menths roll
along.
MR. BEEcEER
then stated that for more than four years
she had been denying the truth of what
was called her original confession. In
court, before the church and before the
committee she had asserted her innocence.
This would more than Offset anything she
might say now. Her latest statement was
i1,stigated by desire for reconciliation
with her husband, and was the proper way
f<,. t1,of, Io h0 n
continue his course Just the same, notwith
standing the renewal of the scandal.
INA GAVE OF GLOOM.
ELMIRA, N. Y, April 16.-Henry Ward
Beecher was passenger on the Erie road
west this morning, from Waverly. All efforts
to get view of him were unsuccessful. He
went direct to his hotel after his lecture last
with the press, and he went from the hotel
direct to the depot this morning. When the
train stopped, a reporter sought an inter
view, but Beecher refused. large crowd
was about the car to catch glimpse of him.
He lectures at Bath tonight.
WIN. A.. BEACH,
one of Tilton's lawyers in the scandal trial,
said the trial could be opened at any time by
any one on either side serving notice on the
opponents of the intention to reopen. Mrs.
Anna NJ. Field to whom 1t was reported the
letter had been sent by Mrs. Tilton, giving full
details Of the proposed confession, denied the
truth of the report tonight. One of the lead
ing members of Plymouth church, who de-
clined to permit the use of his name, said to-
day that his wife receive a letter from Mrs.
Tilton three weeks ago. 1t was on personal
matters, said he. but towards the close, most
unexpectedly she dropped into discussion Of
her guilt. Mrs. Tilton then set forth the
printed falsehood that she had
NEVER DENIED HER GUILT
before she left her home in Tilton's house.
That was false. and when we called her atten-
ton 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 in a sort
of confession of her guilt about which she had
written her daughters, so she wrote, but which
she did not think she should disclose to Car
| roll until he was a man. Several times it said
when you have seen me burst into those par
oxvsms of tears they were the times when the
burden on my conscience was unbearable, OF
something to that effect. Now, my wife never
in her life saw her burst into any paroxysms
| The most she ever saw was the 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 to improv,
the caution we had learned during the days o.
the great trial, and so it was sent to Mr.. Beech
| er's lawyers, who have it now.
| BEEcHER CHEERFUL
BATH, N. Y, April 16.-Mr. Beecher lectnret
here this evening to large audience. and wa!
warmly received. He appears cheerful, refuse
to read tho papers, and will make no furthe
statement. He will go right on about his bus
mess, and fill his lecture engagements q
though nothing had happened. He said to-da.
that if Mrs. Tilton had felt 80 conscious strick
en-, she should have made her statement to th
church, and not to the newspapers. Mr.. Beech
er has received large number of telegram
to-day, assuring him that the confession ha
fallen fiat upon the country, and has produce
no impr ession upon his friends.