Year: 1875

MRS. TILTON'S FIRST DESERTI0N AGAIN DESCRIBED.


Mr. Fullerton-Mr. Tilton, calling your attention
various been introduced both your
behalf aud behalf Of the defendant desire to ask you
this general question: whether they received about the
time OF their respective dates A. Yes Sir the only exception
think OF in the OF Mr. Beechers letter written to
Mrs Tion after the Woodruff story. That written a
number of months ards but believe that has date


@ No On the examination you asked in regard
to the Of your wife sometime in December 1870 at
her mothers think you stated tat Immediately upon
her return from the counry-whcre had she been' A. She
had been spending the Autumn In Marietta. Ohio.


O. Do ecoect the time OF her leaving to goto Marietta'
A. ] can't Gx the exact date.


O. How early In the Autumn do you think 1t was' A. |
should think 1t might have the last OF Sepembcrpo
bly, the 1st Of October


@ With whom did remain herei A. She remained with
a friend Of our family, Mr.. Putnam


@ And according to your best recollection now how soon
after her return from Marietta was 1t that she
went TO her mothers houseG A. Well, Sir, my reco
lection is - although 1 won't be positive about
it that she returned house. having been brought there
by me in carriage and during the day she went to her
mothers house then returned and told that her mother
insisted that she should longer live at home with and
that she then en that day few days after
to her mothers house.


@ You met her in the carriage her return from Marietta
did you notf A. Yes, Sir. went over to the depot


O. And escorted her your house, A. | did.


@. And how did you learn Of her coming a. Why she
notified me by letter.


O Where did her mother then live A. Round the corner
from my house.


Were all the children taken with her to her mothers
did some Of them remain with you A. don't remember that
any of the children TAKEN except perhaps the baby


O. Now will YOU tell how old that child called the
baby'i A. Well remember that the child could walk and
talk little baby talk-why the child was born in September
in June 1862 and this December 1870 the child was
eighteen months old.


O Yes that is the child that you had correspondence about
wasn't it. where you wrote pcrempoy order for the nursc'
A. Yes, Sir.


O. To bring il home! A. The little boy Ralph.


O. How long did she remain away at her mothers at that
time. A. Well my recollection is, only two or three
days I don't know that she remained long as that
During that interval think she went to New brunswick New
Jersey to make visit to my daughter Florence who there
at school, Ny recollection is that during Mrs Tons absence
in New Brunswick sent for the baby being willing that
the baby should be in the hands OF Mrs Morse


O. Well beyond saying that insisted upon it that
she should live there any onserwas there anything SAID
indicating an intention upon part remain permanently
away?


Mr. Evars-This inquiry for conversations between
husband aud wife, which have gone into.
Mr. Fulerton-Oh, yes: you did 90 into them


The Witness-No Sir; Idont remember any such thing IS
that.


O. How long before she returned A. She returned from
New Brunswick days before her sickness her sickness
was datedher sickness occurred the sh OF December
she returned from New Brunswick just few days before
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O. How long was she absent from your house after leaving
IT, before she returned That my question. ~ Well SIR
only few days. can't say how long have no means OF
fixing the date