Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-03-07
SHE SEEKS REVENGE
Mrs. Minnie Platt Shoots at
 Her Husband.
THEY MET ON THE STREET.
A Friend of Platt's Snatched the RsvOl.
 yer from Her Hand.

She Is Arrested and Locked Up in Brook
 lyn-A1thOugh Declared Not Guilty by
 the Jury in the Divorce Suit, She Says
 Her Husband Had Rounded Her Until
 She Could stand It No Longer.
 BROOKLYN, N. Y, March 2. - Mrs. Minnie L. Platt, who recently figured az defendant in the sensational divorce suit in which Martin B. Waller, son of ex- Gov. Waller of Connecticut, was named as correspondent, spent last night in cell in Brooklyn. She is charged with having attempted to shoot her husband, William H. Platt, on Livingston street. last evening.
 Mrs. PIatt, who is young and very attractive woman, left her apartments aJ No. 232 Livingston street. She told Mrs. Rodman, with whom she boarded, that she was going to the postoftice and would return in a few minutes to meet her sister, whom she expected from Long Island. Ten minutes later Mrs Platt returned in an apparently excited coalition. Again she left telling Mrs Rodman to detain her sister if she called during her absence.
 What followed is @ mystery on which both Mrs. PIatt and her husband throw little light. Five minutes later Mrs. Platt was seen some distance from her house engaged in struggle with two men.
 'Don't do thatl Don't do thatp shout ed one of the men.
 Neighbors who heard the loud talk raised their windows. Just then an officer appeared and one of the men asked him te arrest the woman. He said he was her husband and that she had attempted to shoot him.
 His companion, John Reid oi No. 65S Herk1mer street, said the woman had revolver, which he had tried to take from her. Tke party went to the Adams street station, where Captain Platt made charge against his wife, and she was locked up, Reid, who was with him, corroborated what he had said. The two men then disappeared.
 The reporter saw Mrs. Platt in her cell in Adams street. She was sitting in a chair by the cell door, attired in street costume, just as when arrested. Her hat was still on and her long cloak was wrapped about her. One of her hands was in her huff and the other was wrapped up in a handkerchief. Her hand had evidently been hurt in the struggle. At first she refused to speak about the c ase. She said: 1T prefer that my husband should do all the talking
 After a while she went on to say: "The fact of the matter Is that my husband has haunted and bounded me continu- ally. Detectives and his friends have shadowed me day and night. could not go out on the slightest errand with out being followed. 1 wish to deny em- phatically that attempted to shoot my husband, nor did take a revolver out of my pocket.
 D-SI T he did not know that I had one, and didn't see it. MT, Reid is a Masonic friend of my husband, and he has aided him in watching my movements. had just left my house when I saw MT. Platt and MT. Reid. l did not speak to them, and did not interfere with them in any way. Now I've said all intend to say about the affair.""
 "How did you get the revolver?'',
 ''I bought it," she said, Ia few days ago because was going to the country.
 Mrs. Rodman, the lady with whom Mrs. Platt boarded said |: 6 Mrs Platt and her sister came to my house five weeks ago. Their conduct has been most lady, like and exemplary. They had no wis itors and kept to thems elves. This even ing Mrs. Platt went out to post some let ters.
 "She returned, expecting that her sis ter had arrived. She went out a second time, but did not return, A little while ago an officer notified me of her arrest. Mrs. Platt's sister arrived shortly after she left the second time. For several days past Mrs. Platt has been acting as if mentally troubled. She complained that she had not received alimony due her on the first of the month."
 Last summer Captain Platt began suit for an absolute divorce from his wife in the City Court, Brooklyn. He accused her of continued inti- macy with Martin B. Waller, fson of ex- Gov. Thos. NJ. Waller of New London, Conn. Gov. Waller did his utmost to prevent the cdse from becoming public.
 At the trial which came off before Judge Osborne, the jury decided that Mrs. Platt was not guilty.