The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-08-28
STEWART In SCANDAL
Nevada Senator Correspondent
in a Divorce Suit.
WAS KIND SOUTHERN LADY.
Now She and Her Husband Are At
tempting BIaekmait, He says.
AID He VIII Fight.

wAsHrssroS crrr, Aug. zT.-The state
nent vas Published this morning that
Charles l. GIasscock. of this city,
had fled a suit for absolute d.
vorce from his wife. and that he
had named as correspondent senator
whose name has not been given and whose
identity vas not clearly known. The
fact became known that Senator Stewart,
Of Nevada, was probably the senator re-
ferred TO in the article. Tonight an Asso-
ciated Press reporter asked him whether
he had seen the statement, TO which he
replied:
Il did. and I presume ii applies 10 me.
About year and q half ago the woman
Glssscock came TO me as 8 Southern lady
in great distress. She represented that
she had i've children; that her husband
vas unable 10 support them and that
they were suffering for food and clothing.
She said she was willing to work in any
capacity, and wanted me 10 get her employ
ment IN some Of the departments-any
kind Of work would do. l applied to the
interior department for her, but they had
no place A few times afterward she
came TO my Office. always suggesting in
some way through nav influence she could
great distress she and her family were
suffering. At one time she came on a
cold, rainy day and said they had 10 coal
and she and her children were suffering.
gave her s. 10 buy coal. Ar
another time she sent her little girl TO me
with a letter stating that ono of her chill
dren had typhoid fever and she had no
money TO buy medicine, and unless she
could get money the child would probably
die. / sent her few dollars.
son two or three occasions she obtained
money from me for like purposes, and
finally she commenced writing letters.
assuming that improper relations existed
between US, and that l had more
10 lose than she. / met her
at the capitol one evening and told
her that those were blackmailing letters.
and that | was bound from that time on 70
treat her IS q blackmailer. few DAYS
after this | received a letter from an attor-
ney, Mr.. Darlington, asking if / had any
reason TO give why hr. GIasscock
should NOT bring suit against me for
alternating the affections of his wife. /
sent Col. Thompson to him to state the
facts. He wrote Col. Thompson that his
client was an honorable man, and was
about TO bring suit for divorce. l then
wrote TO Mr.. Darlington, stating the facts
for his Information, supposing that
would end tie matter. But the suit was
commenced and Mr.. Glasscock sent me the
subpoena. Some time afterwards | re-
celyed letter from James IL. Wilson,
stating that Mrs. Glasscock had called on
him in great distress. fearing her children
would be taken from her, and that
it was q delicate matter to manage. /
paid no attention TO the letter until
shortly afterward l received another
letter from Mrs. GIasscock, stating that
she must see me, and that she would
call on the following Monday
morning. and informing me that
her husband was in Richmond.
by that time I began to suspect a
conspiracy, and when the time arrived /
watched. She came and attempted TO
get into my office. She had little girl
with her. Mr.. Glasscock, her husband,
was out in the street entrance. She evil
IDENTIFY was TO get into my Office and
then send her little girl tor her husband
and create a sensation. She wrote me one
or two other letters. insisting that she
could protect me if she could only see me,
and that her husband was alb
sent and that il was necessary for
her to see me before his return
One was brought by her little boy to the
capital. She and her husband were there
Immediately afterward. They hunted for
l learned afterwards. was that she was to
meet me and he was TO come up, accuse us
of intimacy. create scene on the street
and get il published.
II then employed a detective. and ascer-
tanned that they were living together. and
have been ever since the suit for divorce
was commenced. obtained proof OF the
conspiracy. and my attorney presented it
to Judge Bradley. and there is an order
of the court that the question of
conspiracy of collision suit shall first be
heard. The affidavits are on file. | have
also learned Mrs. Giasscock and
her husband have several Cocoon
spirators of disreputable char
acter who have been sauntering
around the capitol for several years. l
know the movements that they and their
co-conspirators have made for the last
three months. ! was put under the pain
full necessity Of gathering the facts and
going before the court with a view of
Furnishing them for blackmail schemes.
Mrs Glssscock has the audacity TO say:
Last December my husband left me and
since May II ! have not seen him.
They have been seen together
lately. and all their neighbors
aud friends know they have been
living together IS husband and wife
even since the suit was commenced. and
that they are living together today. Ifshe
has seen the affidavits on Tie she is a
brave N0GiaA W cNNn state
ment"
Mrs Glasscoek has given her version of
the story. She IS about 30 wears
old and very handsome in appearance
She says that she came here with
her FIVE children and husband three
years AGO. Her salary in the employ
Of the Richmond & Danyille company was
reduced until IL was not sufficient TO sup
port them. She attempted 10 secure a
place ia the departments through several
senator's, among them Mr.. Stewart She
told him Of her condition, and Senator
stewart she says. loaned her $40, and
various times after that, upon her repre-
sentstion that she wss in want. he gave
her money. "The necessities OF my little
children were the only motives | had for
taking these loans" she said She ac-
kuoviedged she had visited the senator
many times. but always on the same
errand. Her husband. she declares, be-
came acquainted with these visits and
left her.
BUTLER coNFEssEs DEFEAT.
Refusing 90 Abide nv the south Caro-