Evening journal., 1892-03-07

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Psossodings In whsch Young Martin r.
waaIer Figured ~ tho Alleged Core
sI'ondcDt-Mrs. Piett Incarcerated.
BHoo9LyN, Marh Mrs Minnie la
Fourette Patt. who carly last December was
EDed by her husband, William H. Platt, Of
- Port Greene place, this city, for an abso-
lute divorce, IN which suit Martin B. Wal
ler, son Of ex-Govornor Waller, OF Connecti-
cut, WINS named o. correspondent, came to
the front again In a startling manner. Mr..
Piatt accused her with attempting 10 shoot
him on the street, and she was locked up
on charge Of attempted murder. Mr.. and
Mrs Piatt havo not lived together since
their separation prior 10 the divorce suit.
Mr.. Platt in hia complaint says that his
wife was only prevented from shooting and
possibly killing him by the prompt action Of
hisfriend John Reid, of65s Herkimer street.
Mra Piatt, on tho other hand, says her
husband and bis Masonic friends have been
bounding bor since tho trial Of the divorce
suit. She only put bar hand 10 her pocket
| and thr0tened her husband to make him
/ 20 aVay, she says. when Mr. Reid caught
her and drew from her pocket the pistol
which b. turned over 10 the police.
Mrs. piatt y twentyeeven years old, a
pretty brunette below tho medium height.
Mr.. Platt Is staid, m becomes his years, for
he n nearly twenty years older than his
I wife he "a living n ~ Fort Green place
and NIs. Pl0tt hss been boarding at 222
Livingston strooA
She Threaecssed to XIII.
Patroanan mehain Shields was attracted
| 20 Livingston ltreet, nenr Hoyt, by wom-
ans screaIns. An instant later, before he
could reach tho sf=% where two men and
woman stood, one q the men called TO him
30 plaoe tina woman under arrest When
the policeman approached Mr.. Reid told the
ol1or that the woman had tried 20 kin her
husband.
'-eShe Threatened b kin him and drew a
pistol," e0id hs, 'Tbut l hook it from her be-
fore sho could use H."
Platt corrobornood Reid's statement and
insisted that his wife should be taken 10 the
police station, where he made formal COM
plant against her.
He told the sergeant nc the desk that he
had met Mrs. Piatt BY accident while stroll
ing through Livingston street. She had a
bottle with hor, he said, which she had
taken out 10 have flied with whisky. She
stopped him and reproached him because
the thirty dollafs nlimony which he agreed
10 pay whom they separated had not been
paid for this month and then drew the
pistol to KIN him.
{ Mrs Platt was vory much excited but
! denied that she had drawn the pistol from
her poclaet and that she intended TO xiii
Piatt She wns quite composed when inter-
viewed in her cell later and denounced tho
; whole proceeding IA a part Of Mr.. Platt's
prosecution, which he had kept up since
{ their separation.
She loft her boarding house, she said, with
Z a bottle, which she intended 10 have filed
with alcohol az a neighboring drug store.
mrv- PIatt's story.
II had scarcely left the stoop,n continued
Mra Platt, ''wben / met Mr.. Platt, who
was waiting with John Reid and Michael
Peuton, both like Mr. Piatt, Masons. They
weYo going to dog my footsteps, az they
! b0ve done persistently since Mr. Platt failed
20 get divorce m order 10 obtain evidence
ON which 10 found a new application.
"NOw, Mr.. Phtt's Masonic friends have
al come b hia rescue and are doing all they
cln 30 AID him In securing divorce. They
have combined against a weak woman, and
wherever have gone Tor weeks past some
4 body has followed me- The three men ap-
proaohed and Mr. Patt spoke to me and de-
nOuDoed me. He has not paid this months
alimony and whom I spoke of this fact he
gTew 70 abusive THAI feared he would do
me vioionce.
"Just "a q bluff threatened TO hurt him
IL he did not Leave me, and put my hand to
my dress pocket, in which had the pistol.
, AS / did 20 John Reid caught me and
dragged tho pistol from my pocket. Then
when. the policeman came Reid and Mr.
|, piatt tod him that had tried to kill Mr.
/, Platt and produoed the pistol as evidence.
u repeat that / only wanted 10 frighten
them and compel them 70 leave me alone in
futureH
T1o pistol, a e2-caHbor Of the Defender
pattern Mrs. Plntt explained she had
bought from the woman with whom she
I boarded who intended to break up house
keeping.
2 81 was going 10 move to the country
alided Ma Platt, 'And purchased the pistol
In caso ! should need it for use against
tramps or burgiars'
! Mrs. Piatt win be arraigned in the Adams
Street police court.
Tho Noted Divorce Case.
Martin B. Waller, secretary and treasurer
q of the Long Island Brick company, Of Green
I port, l.. l., and a son Of Ex-Governor Il. NJ
b Weller Of Connecticut was the correspond
4 ent named in Mr.. piatt's suit for divorce,
Q Mlkcn LoOk nearly week 10 lIl ntl0rd
!. Judge Osborne and jury in the Brooklyn
city court Mr.. Waller did not offer to ap-
pear and the subpWna servers could not find
him.
Witnesses testified that they saw AIrs.
: Piatt and Waller together at the Long
Branch hotel, at Fulton and Sands streets,
on the night OF July las and that they
were enabled TO see the pair in room to-
; gether by means of reflections from mirror
in the room
One Of tho witnesses, Samuel McCreary,
I a brother-in-law OF Mr.. Platt, also claimed
T, TO have seen the pair reflected in a mirror
Is when he looked into the same room ON July
g a. A waiter in the hotel testified that he
served breakfast to the pair several morn
ings, before they arose.
Mrs. Piatt in her defense, said she met
! young Waller on a Kings County L train on
u June "a last He occupied a room at the
e hotel where she was, and on two occasions
u she accompanied him 30 Coney Island, where
they had their pictures taken. She denied
all vrong-doing or that she had sand that
she would GLOW her husband to get di-
q voroe 50 that she might marry Waller.
ID Several architects and builders showed
'c plans Of the rooms to the jury and said that
II was not possible for the witnesses for Mr.
Platt to SO what they had claimed The
Jury in the case vas out nearly all night and
o. returned a seoled verdict on December 10
b. declaring Mrs. Platt not guilty.