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Show EASTERN. EEEGREK TLLTON SCANDAL. Tiltou lias Not Told It All. New York, 21. The Brooklyn Ar-ius, this aucrnoon, publishes a supplementary stiUynont of Mr. Tilton, Til-ton, in the form of an interview with a reporter. Tilton says all the accounts ac-counts of his cross-examination by the committee have been one-sided and incorrect, and the misrepresentations, misrepresenta-tions, as furnished to reporters by counsel for the committee, for-which the committee are not responsible. Counsel are tricky and strategetic. They will be the worst beaten attor-nevs attor-nevs ever in a case, and have made a hideous blunder in diverting tho investigation in-vestigation into the character of his female associates. This gives him the right to institute a counter inquiry in-quiry into the character of Beecher's associates. He informed the committee com-mittee yesterday that he deprecated such a "plan of" battle, but if forced upon Uim by the committee's counsel he could draw a SWORD W IT It TWO EDGES To their one. If this new aspect is to characterize the remainder of the. controver.-y, it wou'.d be better fori I Beecher that he had never been born. ! I Replying to the statement printed in this morning's papers tint he told the , ! coaimiitee he h.id no other evi-1 deuce of Beecher's i.duiiery ex-' cept what Mrs. 1'iiton told I him, Iiiiou tiid to lite reporter "I wih you vsL'it.d do me the favor to say tnrouih the columns or the , A.-i; that though I have hitherto : decided be in:; vie ws-d concern- j jingmy appearance before tiie com-I com-I in it tee" yet the above report, coming, as it dees from the committee's coun- sei, is an absolute fabrication. I told ( J the comm.. tie? distinctly tint , Mr. ! 1 ! Beecher had confessed his adultery to tn-J, that he confessed it to Mr. MuulUtn, that he had confessed it to other persons, whom I named, and furthermore, I gave the names kof several persons who for rthe last year have been perfectly well aware that Mr. Moulton's entire connection with this cae from the beginning to the end, had been b:ist-d on the one and only corner atone. MU. BEECHEH'6 CKIMIN.UJTY. I asked that all these persons be produced before the committee; I asked furthermore the privilege of being present to crons-examine Mr. Beecher and other witnesses; I still further suggested that the case had come to be of such magnitude that it wou Id be be tu,-r for the committee to dismiss this informal in-formal examination in which no one but mvself ban thus far spoken under oath, and adjourn to meet in court; I expressed a willingness to be sued tor libel, or be put in any other way before a tribunal which could compel witnesses to testify under outli, and which could punish perjury with State prison. If this case, with all the facts which lie behind it, revealed re-vealed aud unrevealed, were now before be-fore a criminal court instead of a voluntary vol-untary committee, and if Mr. Beecher's Beech-er's printed statement had been made under oath, subject to cross questioning question-ing and overthrow, he would indeed be compelled to 'step down and out.' I feel at liberty to speak freely because be-cause Mr. Beecher's counsel have falsified me to the world, and I have no recourse but to smite them in the face." The Beecher examining conimittee resumed iti session this evening at the residence of Augustus Storrs, Brooklyn. Mrs. Ovington was examined ex-amined at some length with reference !to the statements made by Mr. Tilton !to her and her husband, i Tho committee refused all information informa-tion relative to the investigation. |