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Show ' EASTERN. 1 bEECHER-TILTUN SCANDAL. New York, S. Thre are ftw dtvt-1-opuienti aUut the b-'e'ner case to-. day. Mr. Bte-mer has gone to Peeks-kdi, Peeks-kdi, and the committee and counsel, are out of town, txmeral Bullerisini the city, but refuses to talk about the, jcase. Moultou lias concludwl his i-iUt-meiit. it i very long. He has said to an interviewer that the men- j tion of Mrs. Hooker's note in his ' U tt r to U .-.;.'her w.ts not intended to j 'create an imprea-doa of Beeeher's j j;L.ilt. A roiii.nittt-eman hits taid ifj Mou.ton Mibmitte-d a hUUanent, but . declined to be rrn3s-ex;unined, the. icnuumltee would not accept it. j 1 Tdtjn said to A reporter, who ft kM ii it was not agreeable to! 1 Bi'erher to have Moulton testify tirtt ! ! that if so. he was willing to give it to j ihim, he, Beeeher, acceded all the 'advantage possible. He, Tilton, re-'ceiv. re-'ceiv. d a vindication every time any real fact in the matter comes out, and ! could ailord to wait a little- longer. I I Judge Morris says that Tilton's ac- , ;about to be brought against Beeeher, ! is irrespective of tho committee's suit r tion; that body will neither hasten .trior delay the commencement of the i-euit, whicli will be brought in the Su premo Court and be an action against Beeeher for criminal connection with Mrs. Tilton. The amount of damages felaimed will be in accordance with "(the suit; but Tilton's purpose is, not ' Uo receive any pecuniary benefit, but I simply to vindicate his good name j' against the atrocious slanders to I ' which lio has been subjected so far as , i Mrs. Tilton is concerned. The case r will be pressed forward to the earliest t jKtewible day. ) Henry C. Bowen characterizes the . 1 alleged interview with himF printed 1 in a Brooklyn paper yesterday, as a 1 .stupendous fraud from beginning to L I end. |