Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-16
Telegrams to The Star.
MRS. TILToN'S CONFESSION.
Interview With Beecher.
Other Statements About It.
THE EUROPEAN SITUATION,
INTERVIEW WITH BEECHER.
What He Has To Say OF Mrs, TiItou
and Her (0nfeSSfnu

anu Hef confession.
NEW YORK, April l6.-A special from Wa
very, n. Y, says: Mr.. Beecher. VINO lectured
here last night, was handed a telegraphic cony
@ OF Mrs; s. Iiiton,s confession, on coming down
from the platform. He read it quietly and
seemed In no Use excited. In reply to the
question what he intended to do he said.
Nothlng at present except to give an ex
pilclt denial" he seemed TO be more SORRY
Tor Mrs. TiltOn than troubled about himself
Inc correspondent asked him: "Du YOU be-
lleve Mrs. Illton wrote this OF her own mind.
- have not spoken with Mrs TfltOn for over
TWO years. was informed several months
ago Ihat infiuenceS were being excited through
their children and others to effect a reconciIfa
ton with her husband and that she enerGati
cally refused TO consider il until he had pub
ncly eXonerated her from the charges brought
1gaints. T @ neI: IL was only a few weeks that the
rumor came to me that she was in a morbid
sel-cOndemnatory state of mind Cores
pondent-" Has Mrs. TiIton ever intimated a
SoHnsGGlouSneSS sH G OF guilt befOre?' Mr.. Beecher-
90 lar lr0m ii that it is impossible to con
ceNe, II her present confession is true, of such
an elaborate prolonged, and extraordinary
career career OF 1alsehOod, as she must have prac-
uSed. pom her husbands statement of his
accusations before the committee of the
church she broke away from her husbands
mouse mousse and refused TO live with him. She took
refuge WIN dear friend to whom she gave one
uhEdfgmg testimony of her own innocence
and the baseness of her husband. She went
fs neI0fs the Investigating committee of Ply
mouth church, and with wonderful path3S
cleared herself OF every charge of domestic
infdelity, and underwent the closest GueS-
ilonlng. She broke friendship with former
iTlendS lOf doubling her statement i'm this
matter when the case was i'm the court Once
after her husbands testimony, TO the Surprise
OF my counsel and all her friends, she rose in
the court and demanded of the Judge that She
De permitted to testify to her innocence She
was examined repeatedly by my counsel and
pLled with the most searching questions, and
by her consistent and explicit testimony sails
fed them all of her innocence, and won their
esteem. When the council of 1876 was called.
several interviews were arranged between her
and eminent gentlemen. both of the clergy
and of the law. In every case she satisfied
them OF her absolute innocence Subsequently
at an interview arranged for the PURPOSE Of
giving permanence 10. her declarations and
form 10 her testimony, which was taken down
Dy shorthand writer, and which believe to
be still In existence, although | have never
seen 1t, she elabOrately and in detail reaffirm-
most prominent instances of her uniform teS-
timony. 1t should be borne in mind that she
| hrst charged me with this offence to her huS-
band. and upon my visiting her she withdrew
| It Iii writing; that she subsequently renewed
| the charge that she then again and indignant
| " denied 1t and left her husbands house, and
| lof 1our years has continued in every cOnceiy-
able form and under the most solemn circum-
stances TO deny it until now. when once again
Tor the third time she renewS it. Against this
long and tOTtuOuS career. oppose NV uni-
form and unimpeachable truthfulneSs.''
Mr.. Wheeler's Statement.
Wheeler. on being interviewed in Brook
| lyn last evening, said that Mrs. TiIton author
| lied him fully to publish the statement. -Four
weeks ago, he said, she verbally confessed to
| Mrs. Anna NJ. Field and four other ladies of
| Plymouth church, stating all the details and
circumstances of her adulteries. In addition,
he said, he held private letter, not yet to be
| published, from Mrs. TiltOn, regarding the
| whole matter. He said that Mr. Titon knew
| nothing whatever of the conference; and. fur
wife for reconciliation. He did not feel at
| liberty to state OF publish more facts at pres
ent, but 10 emphatically declared that Mr..
| TiltOn had nothing to do with the conference
The Explosion Not Unexpected.
Mrs. Morse, the mother of Mrs. Tilton: Mr.
Tracey OF counsel, and also Sam. Morris were
noncommlttal. Several prominent persons
on being interviewed said that this explosion
was looked 1or. One gentleman said Mrs. Til
ton had received money and aid from her hus-
band lately, and that he had made arrange
county, \. Y. when Mrs. TiltOn gave him a
personal interview said he. ''she was lost"
Under TilIOn's Influence,
MI. 5: V. White, when shown Mrs. Tilton's
confession, laughed and said il was part of a
dramatic development that had been In prepa.
IatIon for some time. He pointed to Mrs
Iilton's TIT sworn affidavit published June 25
God all the stories i'm circulation about
Beecher and herself are utterly false. and
pleads pie inability to act for herself when under
influence again. said Mr.. White ''and the
comedy has begun anew
Beecher's Assistant not Surprised.
Rev. Samuel B. Holiday, assistant pastor of
Plymouth church, said he was not i'm the least
surprised at this development of the scandal.
he said some months ago when he heard that
Mr. Iilton had gone to see his wife. with her
consent, that now we might look for the be-
ginning OF the end. 1t is susceptible of only
one explanation, one which naturally will be
gwen to act OF such poor, crazy person, who
is putty in the hands of her husband whenever
ne is With her. Her course at the beginning is
at least such as destroys her weight as a wit
weak, insane woman. Her statement on anV
subject is worthless and that is all there Is
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