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Show EASTERN. bKEC liR TILTON SCANDAL ; TIU.05 OS bbECHra "1 slaLLJJLil. j' New York, 14. A ref.-rU-r called ; on Tiltc-n to-day Mod akeu if he in-1 tended Ui antwer bfcher' stati-ment. "li is answered already," aaid Mr. :. Tilton; "'it needs no other answer., man tne: one w.dch v.-.t.- written by i Mouil'in a w?fk " anil which, tor lhemi:of p,-..'-'-. Mouibm withheld from the cuiutuilUf. Tne ru n:-i d -,t:t'Ci n'l.t iiiu-t iiuw cm i it- lorth. Ad t ,ir-iiii' 'i'-d j e'.'pie uou;d d.;maiid iLi p;i'-l '-.iti"ii. Mnulii'ii e-i..n no lub.tr, ftiiii --L-lf-respci-t, witliiiu.d ali the tacts anil documents. If ever a initii tntd to faithfully serve another .Moil turn lias tried to serve Beecher. 1 Fur feAir years, Frank Moulton, holding hold-ing tin- documents in his hands, ha icuiupeuVd me to compromise my !ea.- in Hcecher's bubal!, and now fr Beeclier to turn at j la-,1 ' on Moulton, and pub-1 hciy hear false wi'nc.-s against ' tin; most faithful of frienda; : 'to s-r:ik evil of one ot the truest-! 'liearteil men that ever breatheel; to jdi-nuuiice a rich, generous and prince-jly prince-jly iniui like Frank Moulton as a1 Oliukmailer; all this, leaving myself 'entirely out of the cast, shows Keecherto have been guilty, not only of the Original criminality with which 1 have' charged him, but of subsequent subse-quent ingratitude to the Iriends who rescued him from euicide four years ;igo, and nho, from that time to this, have tieen Ins chief stiield from public jreproach." di. Will you say anything as tc 'the points of Beecher'e letter? j T. No, not to-day. I have read it (very hastily, and my chief interest in it is in its attack on Moulton, which 'is base beyond parallel. Mr. Moulton is out of town, and I know not what course he will take; but X know that he lias written his full and complete btateiuent, and the result will be to annihilate Beecher's denials of adultery, adul-tery, and to leave him in the attitude ot a dt operate man, who, to save bim-Belffrtim bim-Belffrtim truth, hns" resorted to an jarmy oi raisenoous wnicn cannot ue 'characterized by any better word than j infamnus, - " . ' HAS K00nrjs. New York.- 15. AssistanUPastor Jlulhday, of Plymouth Church, has in I. is possession a record of conversations conversa-tions had two yearR ago with T'lton and Moulton, in which both denied, in the strongest terms, that there was ! any truth whatever in tba Woudhull j scandal about Beecher. Moulton i particularly denouuetd the scandal jas uitwly baseless, and notprtsentmg I ihe.ltitfet shadow ol truth. - MO HE OF THE BERVAT GIRL BUSINESS. INew York, 15. It is stated, in the Biooklyn i.'i'-e, that this aervant-giri business will. wear another complex-lion complex-lion when the story of the girl, now in possession of the Plymouth Church investigating Committee,' is made puMi' i'iit allegation is that Tilton, : not JVereher, 'us interested in. her removal from Brooklyn.- It eeems, from ber statement, now leaking out, that Bhe was an adopted child in Ti I ton's household, taken when an ioiant and .was. always treated as a member of thc family. During the absence of Mrs. Tilton, this adopted daughter left the house, and.on Mrs. 'I ilr.m'n roiurn bIia -rprnrpd to her the :' occurrcoee -; leading to that act:, . Alter -rt while, the story i crept out, and Mte.XiUop was sent , by Mr; Tilton to more than one house to deny it; and finally, finding if did not die easily, tho girl was induced by them to sign a statement denying what were called wicked Btories set on foot against Tilton, After this re-, traction was obUiinei!;Tiiton bad the girl sent West to school, and Flanci 1). Jooulton paid her tuition and board bills. This is the girl's own story" as she has told it to the committee, to-her to-her Bchool teaelfcr and to Mr." Shear-' mn j - r - -". Beecher left for Feekskill Urn'morn-ing, Urn'morn-ing, and Mrs. Beecher says .she does not tliick he will return -before - October, Octo-ber, -i. . i.. ;::- ' ; The Artfris states that Frank Moul-fon Moul-fon will speak," and tliat he will do as General Bntler advised him -"come in last." |