Connecticut western news., 1892-03-10
MRS. PLATT IN JAIL.
HER HUSBAND SAYS THAT SHE TRIED
 TO KILL HIM.

A Sensational Outcome to the Divorce
 Procsedings in Which Young Martin B. 0spondent-Mrs. PIatt Finally Released.
 BROOKLYN, March Mrs. Minnie La Tourette Platt, who early last December was sued by her husband, William H. Platt, of 19 Fort Greene place, this city, for an abso- lute divorce, in which suit Martin B. Wal Ter, son of ex-Governor Waller, of Connecti- cut, was named as correspondent, came to the front again in a startling manner. MT. Platt accused her with attempting to shoot him on the street, and she was locked up on a charge of attempted murder. MT. and Mrs Platt have not lived together since their separation prior to the divorce suit.
 MT. Platt in his complaint says that his wife was only prevented from shooting and possibly killing him by the prompt action of his friend, John Reid, of 65S Herkimer street.
 Mrs. Platt, on the other hand, says her husband and his Masonic friends have been bounding her since the trial of the divorce suit. She only put her hand to her pocket and threatened her husband to make him go away, she says, when Mir. Reid caught her and drew from her pocket the pistol, which he turned over to the police.
 Mrs. Platt is twenty-seven years old, a pretty brunette below the medium height. MT. Platt is staid, as becomes his years, for he is nearly twenty years older than his wife He is living at 19 Fort Greene place and Mrs. Platt has been boarding at 2s2 Livingston street.
 She Threatened to Kin.
 Patrolman Mehain Shields was attracted to Livingston street, near Hoyt, by a wom- ans screams. An instant later, before he could reach the spot where two men and a woman stood, one of the men called to him to place the woman under arrest. When the policeman approached Mir Reid told the officer that the woman had tried to kill her husband.
 'sShe threatened to kill him and drew . pistol" said he, "but I took it from her be- fore she could use it."
 Platt corroborated Reid's statement and insisted that his wife should be taken to the police station, where he made formal com plaint against her.
 He told the sergeant at the desk that he had met Mrs. Platt by accident while stroll ing through Livingston street. She had Q bottle with her, he said, which she had taken out to have filled with whisky. She stopped him and reproached him because the thirty dollars alimony which he agreed to pay when they separated had not beer paid for this month and then drew the pistol to kill him. Mrs. Platt was very much excited, but denied that she had drawn the pistol from her pocket and that she intended to hl P1att. She was quite composed when inter viewed in her cell later and denounced the whole proceeding as part of MT. Plattt persecution, which he had kept up since | their separation.
 | She left her boarding house. she said, witt ] bottle, which she intended to have filled with alcohol at a neighboring drug store. Mrs. Platt's Story. 1T had scarcely left the stoop," continued Mrs. Platt, "when I met MT. Platt, wht was waiting with John Reid and Michae | Fenton, both, like MT. Platt, Masons. They were going to dog my footsteps, as they have done consistently since MT. Platt failed to get divorce, in order to obtain evidenc, on which to found a new application "Now, MT. Platt's Masonic friends have | all come to his rescue and are doing all they can to aid him in securing divorce. They have combined against weak woman, ana wherever have gone for weeks past some | body has followed me- The three men ap preached and Mir. Platt spoke to me and de nounced me. He has not paid this months | alimony and when I spoke of this fact h. grew so abusive that feared he would dc | me violence.
 "JuSt as a bluff threatened to hurt hin | if he did not leave me, and put my hand tt my dress pocket, in which had the pistol i AS I did so John Reid caught me ant dragged the pistol from my pocket. Ther when the policeman came Reid and Mir | Platt told him that had tried to kill MT Platt and produced the pistol as evidence
 .I repeat that I only wanted to frighter them and compel them to leave me alone il | future"
 The pistol, 22-caliber of the Defender pattern, Mrs. Platt explained, she hat | bought from the woman with whom she boarded, who intended to break up house keeping.
 q was going to move to the country, added Mrs. Platt, land purchased the pisto in case I should need it for use against tramps or burglars"