THE BEACHER-TILTON SCANDAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XII, Issue 964, 27 August 1878, Page 3

THE BEACHER-TILTON SCANDAL.

At a special business meeting of Plymouth Church, held recently, Mrs Elizabeth R. Tilton wa*, on the ; recommendation of the Examination Committee, formerly exeomunicated from the communion and fellowship of the church. The following is the letter of Mr Thomas J Tilney, clerk, of t ne Examination ..-. .Committee, communicating the charges of Mrs Walton to Mrs Tilton and Mrs Tilton's reply thereto. " Brooklyn, May 30, 1878.. : '"* Mas EtiZABETk B;. TILTOIN.; Madam,-—ln. pursuance of a resolution passed by the Examination Committee, of Plymouth Church at a meeting held last evening I enclose a copy of, the charge and soecificatiohs made against you by Mrs B. Walton, and which the committee have voted to entertain. I am requested to inform you that a meeting. : of the committee will be ~.., ;;heldat the church parlours on Monday evening, June IQ, ; at nisht o'clock/ at 1 - which tiihe'they will receive any" reply you may. desire to -■*& niake ! to ;;; 'the; : chargS afad specifi- ; ; ~cations, 'and'i^llCiPS^^rrW*! l tn e Clerk." ; , Examining Committee op if* » Plymouth CHURCHi-i-Il me a copy of the 'charges/and the specifications made against me by Mrs BT "Walton and signed by her, underj date of May .23, 1878, and also a letter accompanying the same, wherein you express a willingness to receive any reply I may desire to make- Therefore I answer, I'Bt., that in my house On the evening of the 15 day of April, 1878,1 did soy in the presence of Mrs Walton that the statement contained in,a certain card which she held in her hand was < truei; a correct copy of the same befog annexed to the charge and specifications. 2hd, I did authorise the card to be published in several newspapers in the city of New York .; the, foUpwing.. day. .And I now .repeat; and reaffirm that my acknowledgment of adultery withtbeRey. Henry Ward Beecherj pastor of Plymouth Church, was the truth and nothing but'the truth ; and that paying previously published a falsestatement.denying.the chai-ge I make the truth as world the lie had been. I have : . rip.'further or other, statement to make to the committee.—Elizabeth •:■■-.<• R* Tilton, Brooklyn; June 10, 1878." V