The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-24
THEIR HOUSE IS cuRsHn.
Mrs. Tilton Growing Bind, While Hsr,
Husband Lives In Poverty

Mrs. Tilton Growing Blind, While Hkr
husband Lives In Poverty.
(CopyrioAt. 1887
NEW York, March 2S.--Echoes .t,f tha
great Beecher- Tilton trial come back to ne
occasionally and recall all the woe ami main
suffered by the actors in that dreadful
quagmire Of scandal. Brooklyn banishd
the subject from her drawlngroonis shortly
after the end of the suit, which led to the
| eclipse OF at least two of the actors Tllton
and Moulton, and injured Mr.. Beecher ire
trievably. Henry O. Bowen, the richest Of
| all the scandal coterie. holds his own and
| though for a few years he never went our
| IN society at all. his house has been the csn.
| ter of numerous social tgatherings this
winter. He has clever daughter
who Is the attraction Of his home,
and he keeps up the habis ot
| Conn, all the notables Of the Republican
party, who like to talk politics and fowery
rhetoric in the country on the Fourth oe
| July
MIR. Beecher died two years ago and dur.
| ing the interval that hazelapsed since his
death little has been said about the old h.
sues involved in the scandal which ones
| shook Brooklyn voloano-like. But recently.
| the interest Ia the personages concerned 4,
| the trial was revived In the announcement
that Mrs. Tilton, the victim Of every ono
| engaged in the case, is growing blind. Sna
| has been a great sufferer from cataracts.
| which have been repea edly cut from both
her eyes. Now the sight OF one eve ls en-
| tirely gone and tho other IL 70 injured that
she lives in dark room and will shortly b
| wholly blind. Mrs. Morse, the faithful
mother Of Mrs. Tilton, lives with her, and
at present the eldest daughter. Florence.
| is with her. The youngest son OF Mrs. TIL
| ton is the only one of her children who re-,
sides with her permanently Tne other son
and daughter are married and live In New
| York. Mrs. Tilton resides In q modest
home in the eastern part of Brooklyn, and
| never leaves her ROOM now; for years shb
only appeared on the streets when soma
household want had to be- supplied. IL is
said that the cataracts which haveca her
so much suffering we're caused BY contins.
| uous weeping. Whatever slee the scandal
did for others. 1t broke Ter heart and sha
| has been miserably unhappy woman slnc3
that time. When Mr.. Beecher died, Mrs
| Tilton expressed regret that she could not
have been taken IN his stead, for she had
| nothing TO do in the world, and be was use.
full. or all the Bescher family. the only
| one who has shown her the slightest sSlG%
pathy has been Mrs. Isabella Bse5HA'
| Hooker, who urged her brother to be #ind
| to Mrs. Tilton and 10 defend her against her
husbands charges. But Mr.. Bsecher
did nothing, could do nothing
under the circumstance, and, y Is
| said, he grieved that be could not, fer he
had nature that led him to feel sympathy
and generosity toward his fellow-beings.
] Mrs. Beecher was too bitter toward the
| Tiltons for word to be said concerning
them, aud Mr.. Beecher's last years we're
passed under the close espionage Of his
wife.
Lately the letters, documents, agreements,
memoranda and everything else pertaining
| to the scandal were destroyed. Altar Che
trial they were entrusted to the treasurer Of
| Plymouth church, in whose house tho inyes-
| tigating committee held lts meetings. The
papers were committed TO the flames and
| not a line of confessions, recriminatons or
charges are In existence, unless Mr.. Bowen
| holds them. Mr.. Augustus Storrs was q
stanch adherent OF Mr.. Beecher. and gnye
| is an old man and lately has sold bis houss
and has broken mp his home, now that bis
wife is dead and he 4 alone in tho wsrd.
| He feared some less friendly eye might read
| these documents after his death and 50 hs
confided them TO the flames with bis OWL
hands.
Theodore Tilton lengthens out his miser-
able existence in Paris and Is mainly PEN
sioner on the bounty OF one or two former
friends. He has no means Of livelihood ard
10 a very unhappy man. Both OF bis
daughters arc separated from him now and
he is entirely alone, except In the summer
season. when some Americans are In Paris.
| OF all the money he made he has not re-
tanned a dollar, and having no business
faculty cannot adjust himself TO clrcnm>
stances.
Frank Moulton, the mutual friend, died,
long ago, and many Of the older members
1 e -. 4. f-lls saIadN
Beecher to Greenwood. OF the family o.
the latter little is heard In Brooklyn ms
eldest son has removed to New jersey, TIE
second son Is In business and not likely toDe
heard Of publicly In any direction, sncs
he Is a quiet. retiring man. The other son
is not a shining light and has not made
Brooklyn his home for many years han
In the far west, while tho only daughter
| Mrs. B,ovel, Is the wife Of minister a. nor
walk, Conn. Mrs. Beecher is the only
one OF the family who remains asso-
ciated with plymouth church. She vas
bitterly opposed to the selection OF Dr. 40.
bott, and wanted her son-in-aw 10 succeed
her husband but Plymouth people oDJec'ea
and she had 10 acqulesce. She has Dec9ln1
reconcied TO the existing state q vnine9
and sits in her old pew every SUNDAY,
though IL is no longer known as TIE PAS
tors Pew,n but as Mrs. Bsechers, and ner
name is on the door. She has been liyln&
at Stamford, Conn, but has now taken .
house at the corner Of Orange and hlcxs
street, IN Brooklyn, and will occupy " ~
May 1, with a servant Il Is but oiock
away from the house in which Ar Deeone'
died.
She occasionally goes TO Peekskiil, wnera
she wanders through the house ones ner SUM
mer home, and doubtless feels tne Krcns
difference between the time when s.e nye4
there and the lonely present bnt NV.
Beecher is not given 10 seutment ena ooee
not care to have any offered her. one y
woman of strong fixes and dislikes, and ner
opinion is freely given on oil saspects, men,
women and things. DAVID WEcnBLER