N A T I O N A L POLICE GAZETTE.

BADBEREO BEECHER.

•Plymouth Church Another Thro« of the Great

Moral Earthquake.

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MRS. T ILTON TELLS ACAIN

T i l l * T i m e i h « S w e a r t i t i» » o .

stroy (to strength. 1 he wily Mr. Shearman had and eminent the fao* that Mrs. Tilvoo was to tarn oa Mr. g e u t1 e m-e o, Bt-echer long before auy one else, and he caused both of the

. , 'he ruuiors of a coufession to he printed and clergy and oi, E x p e r i e D C e a ^ t i i e a . d*iiied i b n a w *.« to loll suspicion. All ; the law. In

; that-., could be done was done to avert the I every ease she disaster o{ a. conies a l on T h u ' t h i e a t o i war J aatianed ;h«fii; se-ems nr*t to have come from Mrs. Mor*e, Mrs. of her absolute Til lon's mother. A gentleman possessed of all ISXCK-'CM-K.

; the fact* said thatt-arly i n t h e winter Mrs. Morse ' 8 u beequemly 1 had vjti led Mr. Beecher and told him that Elita- ' to that, at an

beth had to l>e taken care of, and that if she was interview ar-f o r i k e 'not liberally supported there would be trouble, ranged for the

C a s n o t T e l l m. L i e . u d i K » d i d i t -

• w i t h h e r L i t t l e H * t c h - i t .

THE BUHiEST CACKLE ON KECOKI).

:WiOi Illov.mttoa » o i P«.TtnLll*. ;

A quiet, mau of thirty-live, walked into the newspaper offices of this city, on Monday after­noon, 1 Jth inst., with a slip of paper in his hand, on which was printed the following : " M R . IRA 1>. WHUELEK.

" Mi D&AB SIR : A few weeks since, after loug months of mental anguish, 1 told, as you know, a few- tnends , whom 1 had bitterly dvccived, that the charge brought by my hiifband of adultery between myself and the Hev. Henry Ward Beecbcr wasjtrue, and that the li." I had lived so well the last four years had K-c< me intolerable to me. That statement 1 now solemnly reaffirm, and leave the truth with God, to whom also I commit myself, my children au.l all who must sutler. 1 know full well the explanations that will be sought by many for this acknowledgment — a d e s i r e ' t o return to my husband, insanity, malice, everything save the true aud only one ;

Mr. Beecher ciuieiilte-i with aome ol his : ; . . ; . .U, . purpose of g»v-and t b e y j ^ r e e d that it would not do for him to mg promi-l>e known as the supporter of Mrs. Tilton after nence to her all the sc in^al , and they advised him not to pay d e c l a r a t i o n s her any money. Mrs. Mors*.' renewed her dtf- ; and form , to maud, aud, it is said, accompanied it with strong aud abusive language, and wrote several pointed notes to Mr. Beecher, but without any effect. Mrs. Tiltou was induced to start a school iu Heurv street uuder the promise of a libera] sup-

v port from

'run >-\MILIKS or i-LYMorTU c a m c i i . She fouud, however, that she was not only uol to teuce although bo liberally supported, but that persons I have cevei from whom she expected favor expressed the opiuiou that a !nr her course she ka-s uitt a fit person to instruct children. T « s stung her to desperation, aud she threw irp bfr school. She. eompl i iucd uf her haosu Ueafuieut by Mr. Beecher aud lus friend/^after/s-s she said, they had used her for all their purposes, and she blamed herself for deserting her husband, who

form , • her testimony, which was tak­en doWD by a shorthand wri­ter, and which I bel ieve to be still m exit

seen it, she elab o r a t e 1 y aud iu detai

dies?' and I answered him that she gurvly

BRUTAL BUTCHERY. the bag and the knife with which I eat the corpse ! in piece* I burned."

This story the authorit ies declined to accept at

_ ^ai<Liii"^rThfi_HoiTible Crime ot a Belrian [tnie- The h0U1!6 where tt6 ******dweh •tei Murderer Who HackB His

Wife to Pieoes.

A TRAGEDY OF TRAGEDIES

T h e C u l p r i t C o o l l y C u t s H i . V i c t i m I n t o O n e H u n d r e d a n d F i f t y -

T h r e e G h a s t l y F r a g m e n t s *

KX-OOVLKNOK FRANKLIN" .'. MOSES. OK SOCTI1 CAROLINA

that Mr. Tiltc>n came to expect that i t would | o c c u r s o m e ! day. He al­ways believed in her abiding sense of truth and right. You i may look thro- . ugh the record of the trial aud you will not • find an in­stance of his rSubjsct eflllastn^ioa. 1 speaking o f : B H I ^ S E L S , March'20—The Court of Auvers has her harshly or during the p*st week, beeu occupied with a re-^ven ankiudly markable murder trial, that of Mestag, which has He spoke of developed a story of horror almost unparalleled her as a white- m criminal-annals.

s o u l e d w o ' Oustave Mestag was a stone-cutter of Anvers, man. He al- thirty-three years of age, of more thau ordinary wayscoueeded intell igence, a.disciple of the International and that she was somewhat giveu to drink, when iu 1S75 he fell iu dominated and with Jeauue Ymgeroots , the widow of one Assel-

THE (il'ILLOTIXE UAPES EOK HIM.

tered many other families, and the tenant of the adjoining room coold dist inctly hear the husband

; aud wife when they conversed. Had the womaa fallen against any article of" furniture -wu>> violence sufficient to fracture her skull and cause her death the shock would have been heard. As

; not a soul in the house was disturbed by any ' unusual sound that night , the presumption was . t h a t Mestag l;«d, aud the prosecution set up the

theory that on coming home he hadHfound bis wife in a drunken s leep and h a d seized the opportunity to kill her with one deadly blow, then had hacked the body to pieces and

DISfOtiLD Of IT AS HJC B I D BA1D.

The trial begajp on the 12th, and attracted ay immense throng. Mestag stuck to bis story, the ' details of which he related with much persistence-and sang-froid, but the wi tnesses against him were numerous and convincing, to say nothing

.of the horrible evidence pftced in vials of alcohol upon the table before the jury—ojae of tke d e a l woman's ears, part of the breast, and pieces <.{ the stomach and abdomen; that, so fearfully were they" lacerated, seemed to have taeu whittled off with a dull knife. Mestag never lost

overcome by reaffirmed her innocence aud mine. These are the Mr. Beecher's influence iu the guise of religion." most prominent instances of her uuiform testi­mony. It should be borne iu mind that she first charged me with this offence to her husband. I'pou my visit ing her she withdrew it iu writ-

At the residence of Mrs. Morse, the mother of M.rs. Tiltou, where the latter is l iving, no in-

berK, a womau of fifty-eight, aud mother o! his nerve, but frequently interrupted "the pro-several ch i ldren ,« l l of age, and some of them ceedings with comta^uts -and-pro te s t s . Once older than Mestag. She had a paying business w ^ e n the' prosecutor, ia summing up, said,

aud some '20,1)00 francs in cash. Whether it was

had been magnanimous to forgive her sin and to iug. She subsequently reuewed the charge, prouiis^e* her protection. She wrote a letter to She then again and indignantly denied it, and

formation could be obtained. The door was miou *imply to obtain from the former a living without opened a lew inchts , as far as a chain and bolt hard labor or to secure the latter by fraud or would permit. " One of Theodore Tiltou's'sous force cannot be said, but only this : Mestag mar-thep asked the visitor's erraud. Upon being ried her tJune 17, 1*T(*>> old and ugly as she was,

Mrs. Raymond, the wife of Professor Kossiter W. left her husband's house, aud for four years has informed that he desired to see Mrs. Morse he and at first the life ol the ill-assorted couple was Raymond, which the reporter's informant said cont inued, iu every conceivable torin and under demanded the inquirer's business*. ^Yhen told not openly unhappy, even though she I s well as

my quickened conscience and the sense of what had been seen and read by several persons in the mo_st solemn circumstances, to deny it, until that it -was a reporter •.w.ho. deairod-1<> *et- hfr-br---wB«-of—iptemprrate-babtH-.-' A— Tear after-Plymouth Ctmt'eb. He undersToodlnarsJIo"tad uow, when once again, for the third t ime, she re- ' concerning Mrs. Tiltou'g. letter the lad promptly wards, however, they l ived in open war; he beat is due to the cause of truth and justice: l 'uring '

all the complications of these years you have been my confidential friend, and, therefore, I address this letter to you, authori / iug and re­questing you to secure its publication.

""it-' v'-.:f-*-.'/' ~ " T j 1/usrTn R. TII .TON. " BnooKiAN, April l 'VlsTS."

written a similar let­ter, saying that she was' no longer going to live in a lie, to Mrs. Anna Field, who ac­companied her daily

The bearer was Mr. Wheeler himself, and he to the trial of the g modest ly said thru he had been asked by Mrs. ; Tilton-Beecher suit. Ti l tou to give it to the newspapers. He was j Women frjom Ply-closely quizzed and he said that he had been a j mouth Church made friend aud adviser of Mrs. Tilton, having known j frequent visits to her, her from childhood. He is a^\'ew York' lawyer, and reported a g'row-and a resident of Elizabeth, N. J. Since her ing change in her dis-separation from Theodore he has acted profes-j position toward Mr,-sionally as her counsel. Being asked about the j Beecher. To one she

confession, he said that she freely made ft, unbe­known either to her husband or to Mr. Beecher. He believed it was a sincere one, and that it was made from no other motive than the one given j sure therein. Her conscience was troubling her", and \ form

said : " What vieious-ness all this trouble has brought out, to be

nearly every of crime." A

it was a raattor between her and her God to con- j lady member of the S fess her sin as publicly • ; PlymouthChurch who

AS SHE HAD I'F.MF.n IT. j has m a i n t a i n e d Be ipgj i sked . whetherghe had made the_jUj^e^riejuilxrj:lationiiwith confession to him, Mr. Wheeler answered that ; Mr*. Tilton and her •he had and to other persons also. Mr. Wheeler i mother, Mrs. Morse, was manifestly sincere in wha»*he"'gaid, and he i called on Mrs. Ti l ton, convinced all with whom he spoke that the COB- | being, as she says, fession was genuine. The news fell like a thnn- unable to sleep until derbolt on the Beecher party, although they one and all gaid they had been expecting it. Mr. 8 V. White, treasurer of P lymouth Church, said j confession. Mrs .Ti l -that he did not doubt M^s. Tilton had written it. ! ton opened the door The air had been full of it of late, and after it had for her. The hair

she knew the truth or falsity ot the alleged

above her forehead had b l a n c h e d t o

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become certain that Tilton and wife were to come together again the Beecher party were prepared for anything. T h e confession was doubtless the j whiteness and she price of reconciliation. He did not know who { seemed to have grown I. B. Wheeler was, but h e did know that of late ! ten years older within threats to blackmail Mr. Beecher had been made. ! the last few weeks. If money was not_giventhe persons said there The feelings of the would be farther scandal deve lopments . Muchl visitor were so in-of the newspaper talk on the subject of the re- tense that she walked

union of the Tiltons wag preparatory to the con­fession. Thomas Q. Shearman said that he knew.of the can/ession comiag , and he bel ieved it was genuine , but it wag part and parcel of the bargain by which Tilton and .-wife are to live together again. Ho referred to the affidavits made by Mrs. Tilton, in which she explicitly de-

directly past Mrs. Til­ton into the parlor without uttering a word. When Mrs. Tilton had entered the lady asked her, while both were yet

pied her guilt , and said that her" latest confestion I standing : was inconsistent with them. Others of the Beecher flock wept further. They said that the woman is insane ; that she is a liar and not to be believed. They reiterated that it is a black­mail ing operation, and said that no attention would be paid to it. Reminded that Mrs. Til­ton is yet a member of Plymouth Church in good

^anllTegliTaFsTandTrrg, they said that she would

" Libby, what ig all this trouble about?"

" T h e r e haa been trouble enough, but what do you mean ?" was the reply.

" Did you write the sUtement that pur ports to be your coc have to be expelled for lying.

As the eTening progressed the excitement I f e s s o n of guilt , and grew very great on Brooklyn Heights . Troops I that ha* l>een sent to

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They were politely received. Mr. Beecher was not at home. They wero told h* was off lectur­ing, but his familv could not tell where, other than it was nomewhrre n p ' l h * . line of the Erie railroad. Every member of the family asked said that they did not know where be" was. When asked whether it was a practice for h i m to go off without saying where he W M going, they answored that it was not. This was the first time he had done such a thing. Jndge (McCue, one the justices of the R r w k l y n city court, Miid : " Mm. Tilton made an affidavit before me in my private office, in which she called Almighty Ood to witness her innocence, and then she assured me privately that the charges against her were the result of one of the basest and moot mali­cious conspiracies ever known. 8he was em­phatic in every denial. Well, thone who belierp in Mr. Reechfr's guilt will bo more than cror convince) , aSrd those who believe in his inno cenco will adhere to their bolief rnoro zealon«ly, and the whole unsavory scandal will bo poured out upon the community again."

Mr. Angustns Htorrs, one of the investigating committer, said that ho had not hoard of a con fe*sion, although ho had b*en told that there might IK> one. " M r s . Morso," ho s a i d , " is a familliar por»on to the pnblic. Her selions in that period when iibe went hither and thither de­nouncing Mr. Belcher and tolling of her dangh-tor's sin proved to her friends that nho was out of her mind. Kx-Judge Nathan R. Morf*, her husband, told mo that aho was not only nn-ploaAant to be with, h ^ n n s a f o . Now it would bo vory strange jf Elizabeth Tilton hadn't some­thing of her mother in her. I mnsl say that trcm ait ! harp rrmrd I think that Mr*. Ti!t<Mi it crazy. Certainly the »^ell» which w<> hare »ey>n hor in go to prove it. The confession rnay be authentic, but

wrto w II i nr.l.irvr IT "-A lie thrice told will have no effect."

The now* fproad with we.nderfnl •pr-r.1, and it soonied to plnngo th» stately Columbia Heighw ipto the same fevor.which ragr-d. »o long in the summer of HT4, «hon every day brought a new surprise Those who moved in the inner eirclr of P l y m o o l h Church woro prepared for thi shook. The indications of" the coming storir. had appcare 1 in many place-*, »n 1 faint intima-mations, albeit that they wore spo^khdr reprossr-d cropped out in the newspaper eoltmriw." Evor timo, the story Was told that all tho plains for pot t ing the scandal to sloop'were to b* np*ot b? M,rs. Ti l ton, an adr< it answer * a « l o » d y t o d o

Before God and these shapeless fragments of your wretched wife, I declare that you were her murderer." Mestag broke in violently, "You lie!"

" MesLsg, be quiet,'' cried the Judge. " He is trying to make me out a mt^rdere'r,''

shouted Mespig.

- -"-8ile-DOe>,-<ir l~wiTt-h*ycjjt«>tt. removrd,"-coc--" tinued the Court.

" l a m no murderer ! I am no murderer!" yelled Mestag, pouuding with his clenched fists

by her acrid speech , on the dock. aud by refusing h i m ' The prosecutor closed his speech as fo l l ows : ,

'• Recall the day when you said, 'There is no' God ! I blaspheme him da i ly ! If he existed he would punish .me !' God was in no hurry, divine justice could wait, but to-day i ts hour has come."

" H e speaks well," said Meetag to bis counieh " I never heard a more eloquent speech."

A three days' trial ended in Mestag'a convic­tion and formal sentence to death.

her habitually and mo^t cruellv, and the

money so retorted upon him that in Augu»t-L 18T7Lhe said t o h i s s t e p-s o n, " Nothing th&t I cau do seems to please your mother : I mean to leave her ; I really don't know what else to do ."

A fi w days later Mestag called at the police station and said that HIS WIFE HAD -DISAP­

PEARED.

They had quarrelled, he said ; she had pro­voked him to beat her

T E R R I B L E S H O O T I 1 C Q A F F R A Y .

A F a t h e r M u r d e r e d b y t h e R e j e o t e d S u i t o r o f h i s D a u g h t e r .

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[Snhj*ct of Illuitrattoa. ] BOSTON, Mass., April 18.—Social circles in this

city arentgitated to-day by the shoot ing laat night | of a prominent Irish citizen by the lover"Di his j daughter . Mr. John Lyons, the victim of the . murderous agsault, ig a gent leman of means and

n o had ileu-r-Tbreci ,—*—,-™-_ ^j. _ , , , ' a man oi s tandiD^^n the-commuBitv-r^Hjfr-baa.,.

daT»-later_abe—came-^T c 7^—Z '—~ TT , . for a number of vears earned on the business of

back at- bedtime, drunk ; he also was the worse of liquor, and when he wakened next morning she had gone—where he ceuld not say. At first he had thought that she had gone to Brussels, as iho often d id , . to purchase goods, but her prolonged ab­sence had alarmed him, and as he feared that she had met with lome accident or had taken her life, he had thought it wise to re-, port . her disappear­ance. The police had their suspicions, an 1 at once made a de­scent on the house and Bearched it nar­rowly, but found no

a wholesale grocer and liquor dealer at the cor­ner of Beach and South s treets , and his name has been associated with every public movement for the benefit of the city or i ts residents . He has been Commander of the Knights of St. Patrick for over three years bes ides holdiDg a staff appointment in the Niath battalion of the state militia. H. Lanman, a young man who re­sided with his mother in Worcester street, has been for some time paying attentions to Annie, the youngest daughter of Mr. Lyons , but his suit has not been favored by the young lady's parents, and they have repeatedly forbidden her to have anything to d o w i t h him. This prohibition ghe disregarded, and on various occasions she,.has met him clandestinely, and has correspond.*^. < with him. -- " .' '-^L^ *

Lagt night she went out about seven o'clock and, as it subsequently transpired, n e t her lover, and had a moonlight walk witti him. The'pair reached Mr. Lyons' house about 10 o'clock and stood a few moments on the steps chatting. While thus engaged the young lady's father reached home and found his daughter in theact

. of disobeviDg h'is commands. He upbraided her trace yf the missing j f o r h e r ^ ^ ^ & n d s h e fled i n t o the house , l e a v

ing her father and lover alone. What passed between them ig Dot known, but soon the report of a pistol was heard to disturb the quiet of the street, and Mr. Lyons was seen to fall heavi ly to the ground, as it was thought , mortally wounded,

again thought of till I X w o g p e c h L , o f f i c e r g h l p p € n e d t 0 ' ^ p „ l i D g

?.*rly 1° i & 5 5 i L r l J - o ^ a b A otber-*ide o f - t b e s treet »t the time, and w h e n a detective

ctation of foul play ; and so Mestag's story was accepted as true, nor # a s the matt« r

the newspapers publication ?"

" I did," i e : l i e d Mrs. Ti lton, firmly,

" AM) r.VF.RT WOBt) Ol"

IT IS TRTK."

" How could yon," continoed visitor, "sit for all this time pur-j n n n g ycur^elf every day '"

" I don't know how I could do it," ro; bed Mrs. Tilton, " but I did."

" Did yonr dancjiters know what you now say news it. Against this long and tortuous career, i paid, " Mrs. Mor«o has no information to impart j Xhj , cesspool had is the truth tM^tf* they went to Europe ?" , Ioppo«p-~my uniform and unimpeachable truth- , to the press ." A sharp voire from the top of tho i probed at the flf'st search

THE oKaCHKR TII.TON 8CASDAL. -1 -MR* ELIZABETH Ti l .Toy ?--HFNRT W A R D HEK HER >-EKANk MOfl.TON -THKOnORK TILTON +-BESSIK TCR.VER

" Yes, they Mrs. Tilton

lid. fulness. " \

hoard that on the 1-lth of August, the day alter Madame Mestag's disappear­ance, her husbaad had drawn water ebmo fifty times at the pump, and after keeping it in the house a little while had emptied it into a cesspool near by, the witness adding that the water tl n* dip-posed of seemed of a .-eddish hue and as if it had fragment* of some ptflid bedy in it.

boon sounded and how the police" had

Almost broken down. She dis- i A reporter, for the purpose of verifying the command * u obeyed staim then called out, " Clop• the door," and tho | it emptied and arrested Mestag on the evidence

played wonderful courage in rnAintaining the confession, called at the house of Mrs. Tilton, in rightfulness of her new at'titr.de toward Mr Rcecher. but she was in a state of great nervous excitement.

" Has Mr. Tilton h>e-en supporting his chil­dren •" asked the visitor of Mrs Morse.

"Sumptuous ly ," replied that lady. " Has h o seen'Mrs. Tilton lately"'" " H e h i * had two i n t o m e w s with her after

his Itst return from lecturing, but ho I* now off lecturing again thousands of miles sway."

Mr. Ik-ocher was out o( thovity to-night when to testify. Mrs. Ti l ton's letter was rusdo public, and his 1* was, however

Rrooklyn. Mrs. Tilton herself answered tho lx l l . She looked far better than in the past. There seemed, however, to be a much greater propor-

" I don't know," said Colonel Beecher, " whether lay father expected anything of this sort or not. Wo never talked to him about it, but I will say for my part that I am frit snr-

tion of gray in hor naturally black hair than ; prised. I havp known for tho last six weeks that there was two ye \rs ago. Tho reporter saw only > Mr. Tilton has been visiting hi* wife, and I was a viLguo resemblance of her old self »* she looked : prepared for »omothing ol this sort. An hour

it disclosed, this evidence consisting of l.VJ ghastly fragments of a woman's body—tendon*, muscles , flesh, organs -comparat ive ly few bone's being found other than broken rib* and pieces of the skull.

Me«ta'g on tho 4th of January denied that ho knew anything about the presence and origin of the«e fragment* ot humanity, bnt this was only

early in the trial, but a closer l.kenew. to her as since I was fon-the fir.t time told of it by a J u, p k i n timtLf t n d n „ t m o r i ) ; n R h ( , W M prepared »he Appeared when, one morning toward the friend." He decl ined, however, to gfve tho name close of the *mt, she arose and waited the reply , of hi* informant, and said most courteously, of the judge to her written appeal for permission " Von can well understand that a* Mr. Beecher'*

I ton I do not care to discn** the matter at all, I Mr*. Tilton, beyond question, caTinot say what the r t sn l l will"p* ,,r what my

they at once rushed to the scene of the quarrel. Mr. Lyons had succeeded ia gett ing on his ft-et, and the enraged lover was arrested in the act of firing a second shot. One of the ofneer*#eiied his pistol arm and prevented the discharge of the weapon. The wounded man was taken into hii residence, when it was found that the ball had entered his stomach, about two icche* above the navel. The surgeons probed the wound, but could not find the ball. .

• Young Lanman was promptly arre»|ed and taken to the station house . H e ' i a s •«h««qaently-confronted w i t h t h e dying man and fully identi­fied. Tho frantic girl, distracted between flliil love and tho affection she bore for her betrothed rushed from the hosse and sought the cell where he was confined. She tore her hair and be­moaned the fate of young Lanman, but was re­fused access to his presence .

The canse of Mr. Lyons' opposition to I^anman was not hi* rel igions belief, a* has been alleged; but the' Tact that he has no r is ible mean* of a'ap-port, ho living with hi* mother and not being employed in any bu»iness. Mr- Lyons would hot have objected to him, no matter what bi» re­ligion might have been, provided he was a fit companion for hi* daogLter and prepared to maintain her in a proper manner. The *booting affair has created a painful sensation throughout Use city.

A F o n l C r l m . S n . p o r t - d .

SntAcrsR, N. Y., April 10 -The ' h o d / of a wom^n wKo had lately gone by the name of Mr*. Oeorge Rood, was exhumed in thi* city to-day

wheroaNinU was not known save to » fewfnends . And she re»ponded pleasantly when so addressed, lather will do. He ha* born calumny for roars. The />-/'.•/>•z telegraphed him a copy of tho let-'i The reporter h»<l with him a copy of the card 1 am qnite »nre he can *tand thin, but it is

ter at a late hour, and received the following let-U>T In rrp ly:

" WArjtut.T, N. Y., April 15, V s:* " T o rnr F.nrroR or THK S r « YORK_ 'ir,~>»ine

" I confront Mr*. T i l t o n s confession with an eye*.» Then, after a moment, she said, explicit and »b*o!ntc denial. The testimony to card was written by me." her i » « i n n o c e n c e and mine, which for four " And yon arflhonyed Mr. Wheeler to make it ye»rs she had made' to hrindreds in private and ' pnblic ?" public, l>eforo the c o n n , in writing and o r a l y , : "Ye*, sir,' she said, »nd still « i th downcast I declare to l-e true. And the Allegations mi* • eye* ; " did he ) e» \e it with you ? n-ade in contradiction of her uniform, solemn I »ir."

furnished by Mr. Wheeler. Showing it to her I cmel , sir, ar/d asking whether she h i d Indeed w r i t t e n , i f ! "» id;rr> i . t r s u i . " and was d i s i rons that it shonld be published, j Mr. Ira R. Wheeler, to whom Mr*. Tiltoh'a Mr*. Tilton flushed violently and cast down her confe-**1on waa addressed, »Uted that the latter

with hi* *tory. " W e went to bed together on, the night of Monday, Angust 1.1, both drunk At 0 o'clock I wakened, and, leaving her sleep­ing quietly, went to . the tavern, where I r*-**^ amount of snpicion* of foul pl*T. l i e body mained trtt 1. On returning then I found my | ^ l ) r o a R h , h e r < l fr (%m Auburn four weeks MP> wife lyipjj on tho floor in a pool of blood, a turn- j f „ r i n U i r T n o n t . T h i , woman had an eventful hi»-b l e r b y h e r *ide. tho liquor in which had W n t „ r T > 8he w M one of the mo«t poUvl oortexac*

The f was handM to him in New York by Mr*. Tilton herself. It was her own rolnntary act, and wa* written from no one'* dictation. It was entirely written by her and w-)thovrt suggest ion* from any one. She told Mr. Wheeler a few week* a^o that

It'* all right, , she had made a confession to a few friends;. In coueln»ion ho sa id: " I beliere her to be

apllled ', her head beating a doep wound,

WHICH HAP C *r«RT> H/B MATH.

On seeing thi* horrible *ight I at once thought of the dishonor which won 11 attach to her memory if people learn<vl ths l she had died drunk, and I re*olred to rid myself of the body. After vainly endeavor ing to sqneere it into a bag, 1 cut it in two at .no waist, and putting half of it into the sack carried it as far as the city gate. Thv-re I reoognired t h e . difficulty and

of SAratoga, where »he lived for some thirteen year*. Her dwell ing there was the renderro«» of men of money #»d .of!r,«n.-« and she aroaased A large fortune Re*pe.etable relatire* of t>e woman residing in thi* city find two will* in ex­istence, the nr»t giving her Saratoga real ewtate and three large bank account* a»d diamond* and jewel* to a gambler named Jsme* Ormaby, of this city. The second and later give* the same property to a gambler of Auburn named

»nd unvarying statement* hitherto made. I Mr. Moniton «AA interviewed in Alban utterly deny I declare her to be innocent of the s>poke snbstAntislly as follow*: , grest transgress-.' n. HV-SRV W * R P R*»oflK«."

In courersAti.vn with a reporter in that town, he made, tho following statement "Mrs . Til­ton WAS etsminrvl rep^at^dly by my counse l , »nd plied w-jth the mhst searching questions,

.v, He : actuated onlr by a desire to free her commence | A™K" *>< ™r ' » '* • ™* ™ * h " " ^ n ™ p ™* I ' ' v v 1 ' knA »»*> *»*«•" «he «""man M h i . wife. a* cor.- ! from the load upon it. She wi .hed to make the * « ^ p o p p i n g the t>*dy up and d o u c h i n g the \ U is .upposed the decea .ed wa . poisoned at

n n c e d the admission would be made, bnt I was • troth known in the matter*. You mav aasert po*i- , «'«& from the l>onea. This occup,«4 me all night ( Ar.bum. The stomach wa* taken out to-day hardly prepare,! to expect it at this t ime. 1 , Uvely Ui»t Mr. Tilton know, noXhing of tho mat ; »«•> »^*r< «{ tn<> ^ T < 4 t W M ¥> * M " "P &* « « " • »"d ,* uow , n the hand* of cbemisU. The body knew it from ' ter " ' i'^*-*^ " i t " Mood that 1 drew so much water at ; b*-* *>^n reinterre-d.

. t KNowt.rrxiR or T B I WAJHAM'. Mr. Tho#. O. Shearman stated that he did not ' **><> pump. The fle»h torn from the b,wes 1 Elizabeth Tilton WAS SO npricht , *o sincere I think the effect of the confession would amount '' , h r p * , n , < 1 t ^ C U S T " ^ ) : thc^bone* I carried hi *

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-0Ai.TTgroxJ_Tet"aA, JtKhl jft.—Thertorernor and by he»r cons i s tent ar-d e.xpUc4t te^Umony t m\nded that it W M oni t A .ineetvon of l ime when • to MiTtbtnir. u h*,\ he*« »e+}.known formenths - ' ' ^ next night t«i_th<i c*mcUry, and, a imhin*_ SAtisfie.1 them all of her jnnoccnce and won their ch'e should tell the truth. I remembeT that ' that Mr. snd Mr*. Tilton had been i ^ c o m m n n i - i ^ ' • r the wall, I buried t h e m in h»ly ground in a • has respited AamiMon, wKo wk, . to"n»rT r w n esteem When tW Council of 1*76 wa» caile.1. ."Theodore Ti l to* once aske,! me, • Prank, do you cation w,th each other, all denials to the contrary nolo that I dug with my finger* and a piece of ( hanged at Colnmbns to-morrow for the murder

several inter* icw* were arranged tat ween her b*U«rc F.Iizatatli will .ever tell me before she (C.i»«t«ioJ a tk» Tis r**** i pointe.1 (tick. My wife's clothing and my own, j of Malch, until May U.

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