Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-28
A SNARE FOR A SENATOR
Stewart of Nevada Named as
 a Correspondent.
MRS. GLAssoooK THE DEPENDANT.

Tn a Statement Concerning the Case the
 Senator Says He Has Proofs That the
 Woman and Her Husband Plotted to En-
 trap Him Tn Order to Get Money.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 2S.-The statement was published that Charles L. Glasscock of this city had filed O suit for absolute di- vorce from his wife. and that he had named as correspondent O senator whose name was not given and whose identity was not clearly shown. The fact became known that Senator Stewart of Nevada was probably the senator referred to in the article
 Senator Stewart in an interview admits that he is the senator in question. He makes the following statement:
 About year and a half ago the woman Glasscock came to me as a "southern ladyp in great distress. She represented that she had five children; that her hus- band was unable to support them; that they were suffering for food and clothing. She said she was willing to work in any capacity and wanted me to get her em- ployment in some of the departments | any kind of work would do. applied to | the interior department for her. but they had no place.
 | Gave Her Money Out of Charity. "A few times afterward she came to my | office, always suggesting some way that through my influence she could get work | and always representing the great distress that she and her family were suffering. At one time she game on a cold, rainy day and said that tl ley had no coal and | she and her children were suffering. gave her s5 to buy coal.
 | Al another time she sent her little girl to me with letter stating that one of her children had the typhoid fever, and that she had no money to buy medicine. and unless she could get money the child | would probably die. l sent her . few dol lars. do not remember how many.
 "On one or two other occasions she ob- | tained money from me for like charities, and finally she commenced writing let ters assuming that improper relations ex- | isted between us, and that 1 had more to lose than she had.
 II met her at tho capitol one afternoon as was going through the corridors, and told her that those were blackmailing let ters, and that was bound from that time on to treat her as blackmailer.
 "A few days after this I received 0 let ter from an attorney-Mr. Burlington asking If l had any reason to give why MT. Glasscock should not bring a suit against me for alternating the affections oi his wife I sent Colonel Thompson tC him to state to him the facts. He wrote Colonel Thompson that his client was ar honorable man and was about to bring | a suit for divorce. 1 then wrote to Mir Darlington stating tho facts for his in formation, suppoSing that that would end the matter. But tho suit was com menced. and Mrs. Glasscock sent me tn, subpoena
 "Some time afterward l received a let ter from James II. Wilson stating tha Mrs Glasscock had called on him in gren distress, fearing that her children weuiC . be taken from her and that 1t was a deli cate matter to manage l paid no atten tion to the letter.
 A scheme That Fall cd. Shortly afterward I received anothe lottcr from Mrs. Glasscock stating tha she must 500 mo. and that she would cal tho following Monday morning and in | forming mo that her husband was fl
 Richmond By that time l began to sus ' poet a conspiracy, and when the time ar
 rived l had them watched. She came
 and attempted to get in my office, and ha'
 her little girl with her. Mir. Glasscock
 her husband, was out in the street nea
 the entrance. The plan evidently was [ get in my office and then send her littl . | girl for her husband and create u sensa ] tion.
 ''She wrote me one or two other letters
 insisting that she could protect me it sh could only me, and that her husban
 was absent, and that 1t was necessary fO , her to sec me before he returned. On was brought to me by her little boy at tn !. capitol. She and her husband wsr0 thor | immediately aftcrward.
 |. "Thcy hunted for me In pairs for severS days. The plan, as l learned, was ths |. she was to meet me and he was to com up, accuse us of intimacy. create a seen l on the street and get 1t published.
 Il then employed detectives and nscc n taned that they worc living together an have been cTcr since tho suit for divorC
 was commenced. l obtained proof of n
 conspiracy, and my attorney presented
 to JudEe Bradley, and there Is on ord, of the court that the question of this col splracy or culluSive suit shall first / heard. The aiiiGavits arc on file. II have also learned thnt Mrs. Glas IL cock and her husband have several co-co1
 spIrators of disrcputablo character wi 5 have been hanging around the capital f.
 several yoars Every letter she ever VITO
 mo was either demand for money or
 threat to injure mo unless she could g
 money. Both MT. and Mrs. GlasscoC
 havo made threats that they would ha'
 money or a scandal, and their co -conspir
 tors havo frequently dono the same.
 II know every movement that they ar
 their co-conspirators have made for ti
 last three months. was put under tl
 painful necessity of gathering facts ar
 going before the court, with view
 punishing them for their blackmailii | schomes ''