Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-11
TIE rrLroN.BBEoaER SCANDAL
Echoes Of tho Old ScandaI-Sao
Fate Of The Tfit0ns.

recall the voc and pain sunered Dy the
actors in that dreadful quagmire OF scan
dial, says the New York correspondent OF
The Globe Democrat. Brooklyn banished
the subjects from her drawing rooms
after the end Of the suit. which
led to the eclipse Of al least two of the
actors, Tilten and Moul,on, and injured
Mr.. Beecher irretrievably. Henry 9.
Bowen, the richest Of all the scandal
holds his own, and though for a
few years he never went GU in society
all, his house has been the center OF
numerous social gathering this winter
He has q clever daughter who is the at
traction of his home, and he keeps up the
habit Of inviting to his country home at
Woodstock, Conn, all the notables of
the republican, party, who like to talk
politics and flcwery rhetoric on the
Fourth Of July.
Mr.. Beecher died two years ago, and
during the interval that has elapsed
since his death little has been said ABOUT
the old issues involved in the scandal
which once shook Brooklyn Volcano
like. But recently the interest in the
personages concerned in the trial was
revived in the announcement that Mrs.
Tilton, the victim Of every n engaged
In the case, is growing blind. She has
been a great sufferer from cataracts,
which have been repeatedly cut from
both her eyes. Now the sight Of one eye
is entirely gone, n the other is so
injured that she lives in q dark room,
and will shortly be wholly blind. Mrs.
Morse, the faithful mother of Mrs. Til
ton, lives with her, and at present the
eldest daughter, Florence, ID with her.
The youngest son Of Mrs. Tilton is the
only one Of her children who resides
with her permanently. The other son
and daughter are married and live in
New York. Mrs. TIlton resides in
a modest hIme in the eastern
part Of Brooklyn, and never
leaves her room now for years she only
appeared on the streets when
some household want had to be supplied,
1t is said that the cataracts, which have
cost her SO much suffering, were caused
by continuous weeping. Whatever else
the scandal did for others, il broke her
heart, and she has been a miserably un-
happy woman since that time. When
Mr.. Beecher died, Mrs. Tlllon expressed
regret that she could not have been taken
in his stead, for she had nothing To do in
this world and he was useful. Of all
the Beecher family, the only n who
has shown her the slightest sympathy
has been Mrs Isabella Beecher Hooker,
who urged her brother to be kind To Mrs.
Tilton and to defend her against her hus-
bano's charges. But Mr.. Beecher did
nothing could do nothing under the
circumstances-and, it is said, he
grieved that he could not, for ne had a
nature that led him to feel sympathy
and generosity toward his fellow beings.
Mrs. Beecher was too bitter toward the
Tiltons for a word TO be said concerning
them, and Mr.. Beecner's last years were
passed under the close espionage Of his
wife.
Lately the letters, documents, agree
ments, memoranda and everything else
pertaining to the scandal were destroy ed,
After the trial they were entrusted to the
treasurer of Plymouth church, in whose
house the investigating committee held
its meetings. The papers were com
mitted to the flames and not a line OF
confessions, recrim:nations or charges
are in existence unless Mr.. Bowen holds
them. Mr.. Augustus Stone was q
staunch adherent of Mr.. Beecher, and
gave $40. 600 toward the expense Of the
trial. He is an old man, and lately has
sold his house and has broken up his
home. nov that his wife 10 dead and he
is alone in the world. He feared some
less friendly eye might read these docu-
ments after his death, and so he confided
them to the flames with his own hands.
Theodore Tiltoa lengthens IL his mis-
cradle existence in Paris, and is mainly a
penslOner on the bounty of one or two
former friends. He has no means of
livelihood, and is a very unhappy man.
Both Of his daughters are separated from
him o and he ia entirely alone, except
in the sdmme season. when some Amer
leans are in Paris. OF all the money he
made he has not retained a dollar, and
having no husiness faculty cannot adjust
himself to circumstances.
Frank MoultoD, the mutual friend,
died long ago, and many of he old mem
bers of Plymouth church have followed
MIR. Beecher 10 Green wood OF The fam,
lily of the latter little is heard in Brooklyn.
The eldest son has r. moved TO New Jer.
sey, the second son il in business and no,
likely to be heard Of publicly in any
direction since he is a quiet, retiring
nan The other son is not a shining
light, and has not made Brooklyn his
home for many years. He is in the far
west, while the only daughter, Mrs.
Scovel, is the wife Of "A minister at Nor
walk. Conn. Mrs. Beecher is the only
one Of the family who remains associated
with Plymouth church. She was bitterly
opposed to the selection of Dr. Abbott,
and wanted her sor-in law to succeed her
husband. but Plymouth people objected
and she had to acquiesce. She has be-
come ~reconciled to the existing state of
things and sits in her old pew every Sun
day. though it Is no longer known as the
Pastors Pew" but as Mrs. Beecher's
and her name is on the door. She has
been living at Stamford, Conn, bit has
now taken q house at the corner OF
Orange and Hicks street, in BROOKLYN.
and will occupy it on May 1 with a ser
rant. II ia but block away from the
house in which Mr.. Beecher died.
Che occasionally goes to Peekskill.
where she wanders through the house
once her summer h'nc. and doubtless
feels the great difference between the
time when she lived there and the lonely
present. Bat Mrs. Beecher is not given
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