The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-12-17
FANLIGHT DETECTIVES.
MORE TEs7IuONI- amour MRS. PL4TT
IND MARTIN H. WALLER
The Former Dcnie~ that Mr.. Waller WINS In
ROOM FL orshr long Branch Hotel with
Hcr-Mr. Plat EncOUs ngrd laer tn 60
.About ss She 1si~aseG, She Says.


Her-Nr. Plat EncOWs ngrd laer tn 60
| About as She pi~ssed, She says.
The suit OF Engineer William II. rlatt agans
Minnie La u. plu.t for absolute divorce. in
| which Martin 70. Waller, u son OF eS.GoN
Waller Of Connecticut. Is correspondence was
continued yesterday before Judge Osborne
and jury In the City Court in Brooklyn. Mrs.
Platt was In court all day. seated beside her
! mother. but Cot pondemt Waller. whom each
side has expressed n desire To suhPuna, did
not appear.
Thilip l.. Volz. New York lawyer was tho
FIRST witness. lir described Mr. Waller as
nearly six feet tail, stout. and u decided
blond. with very ruily complexion and
small moustachc. He identified the man in
the photograph which was put in evidence The
previous day us AIR. Waller. In this and two
other pictures which appear III the ease Mr..
Waller and Mrs. Hiatt are photographed stand
ing sde by side.
Samuel ". M"Crcary. " brothcr-in- law Of
Mr.. Platt. gave fresh description of the OBJ
scrvations taken of what was going on in
room "a ut the Long Branch Hotel in brook
Ign Oh the night Of Julyh He was able TO see
what was going on IN this room 10y ting
through the fanIght of an opposite room into
n mirror in room ~. Mrs rla,t was partly
disrobcd and reading Il novel; Tho mirror was
at the foot OF the bed. The witness admitted
on cross examination that Mr.. plutt had sent
him to tho hotel for tho purpose Of assisting
Waltcr0 Cox IN procuring evidence against
MR.. PIatt. and also that two years ago he had
done similar detective duty in the case Of Mrs.
Plat at the request OF her husband
Samuel Dewey, u waiter ut the hotel. testified
that he had frequently seen Mrs. Plat aud Mr..
Waller there. Sometimes they werc sitting
together in tho restaurant and sometimes
-. II.
breakfast to their room some mornings. They
often remained in their room until late in the
afternoon. The witness suppose,Lsthey were
married. Us Mrs. Platt was known as Mrs.
Waller
Samuel Love was the Inst witness for the
plaintiff. and give corroborative testimony as
to the occupancy OF room ~ by Mrs Piatt and
Mr.. Waller.
Lawyer Patterson. in opening for tho de-
fence. said that Mrs Plat had been badly
treated by her husband for u long time and he
had tried for a long time to put up II Job to in
volve her in adultery or the appearance Of
adultery. 1t would DO shown that this man not
only consented but urged his wife to come and
60 as she pleased. ,u.
and Being sworn. . en- pIaticaliy denied hcr hus-
far as M. Waller. was concerned. She was
separated on May $. 1891.
s,When you parted" asked I Mr.: Peterson ATT,
out. with VII elnsoever You pleased =,
The was net allowed The witness
seees M as her
t he addresses her as. Dear Minnie" tells
her how he has been laid up with rheumatism
getting so stout how it seems e do nm good
to 60 i alone. and closes by telling her to go
:, Mrs Ilatt said that after she got back from
Saugerties she was advised to Put up at the
notknew M War set thu "s wG.n ss
Of MI. Waller in an elevated train in November.
. Mr. Nichos She saw him only once asain,
for a few minutes II February before meeting
until July IL. She went out twics With Mr.;
Msle sH tine fh,t to Mant bea @
we're taken on these they
taken. she said at Brighton Beach: put could
tioas Of misconduct at tho hotel. Mrs. ratt
was never in room % with Mr.. Waller"
Mr.. Patterson-.Is there any truth in these
statements about your being seen with him by
Mrs P Fl a ssaf to @y kneWedse '
thing Of the kind took place.
The witness then made Il sweeping denial Of
On cross: exam in1tion she said she had reg
asked her husband to take her to Coney
Island but he refused on the ground that he
didn't have money enough to buy clothes. She
admitted that she at one time consented to
have tho case 60 quietl by default in case it was
transferred to New York. provided her hus
band kept his promise to pay her $50 a month.
II was at eX-Gov. Waller request that she
went to LAWYER Gravess office and tried to
have the matter disposed of with as little pub
licity NJ possible.
John Frazer. builder. testified that lie had
gone during the day to the Long Branch Hotel
and taken ,9bseryations from the rooms re-
ferred to: He said That from the fanight to
the top q the mirror i T. feet and TINT the
The surface OF the bed is ~ inches from the
floor. and when the mirror is tilted flve-eighths
Of an inch only about two feet Of the bed could
be seen.
This testimony. as well as that of Builder
Geo. H. Truman. was for the purpose OF PROV
ing that 1t was physically impossible for Mr.
platt's detectives to huvo seen what they
described
though nonrly all Of it was ruled out by tho
Court: Mr.. Pntt came to me- some timc ago
about putting IN II Job on his wife He told mo
there was n man in New Jersey he, wanted to
set on his wife so that he might pull his leg for
81 OOn l have known Mr.. Plntt to lock his
vito out OF the house at midnight"
Mrs. Fisher. the mother of the defendant.
testified thnt Mr. Plat advised his wife to 60
to tho Long Branch Hotel.
The ease will be concluded to-day.