Evening journal., 1894-08-28
A SNARE FOR A SENATOR
Stewart of Nevada Named as
a Correspondent.
MRS. GLAsscooK THE DEFENDANT,

Woman and Her Husband Plotted TO En- |
trap Him In orcer 60 Get Money.
WASHINGTON, Aug 2s.-The statement
was published that Charles L. Glasscock
Of this city had filed a suit for absolute di-
vorce from his wife, and that he had
named as correspondent senator whose
name was not given and whose identity
was not clearly shown. The fact became
known that Senator Stewart Of Nevada
was probably tho senator referred to in
the article.
Senator Stewart in an interview admits
that he is tho senator in question. lie
makes the following statement;
About year and a half ago the woman
Glasscock came to me ns a southern
LADY, 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 somo 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.
IA few times afterward she came to my
office, always suggesting some way that
through my influence sho could get work
and always representing the great distress
that she and her family were suffering.
At one time she came on a cold, rainy
day and said that they had no coal and
she and her children were suffering l
gave her 50 to buy coal.
.sAt another time she sent her little
girl to me with a lettor stating that ono
Of her children had tho typhoid fever, and
that she had no money TO buy medicine.
and unless she could get money the child
would probably die sent her few dol
lars. | do not remember how many.
"On one or two other occasions she OBJ
tained money from me for like charities,
and finally she commenced writing let.
tors assuming that improper relations OK
listed between us, and that / had moro to
lose than she had
II met her at the capitol one afternoon
as / was going through the corridors, and
told her that those were blackmailing lot
ters, and that / was bound from that time
on to treat her as a blackmailer.
"A few days after this ] received lot
ter from an attorney-Mr. Carrington--
asking IL / had any reason TO give why
| Mr. Glassoock should not bring a suit
against mo for alternating the affections Of
him to state TO him the facts. Ho wrote
Colonel Thompson that his client was an
honorable man and was about TO bring
| d suit for divorce. / then wrote to Mr..
| Darlington stating the facts for his In
formation, supposing that that would
| end tho matter But the suit was COM
| menced, and Mrs. Glasscock sent me the
| subpoena.
''Some time afterward / received a lot.
tor from James II. Wilson stating that
Mrs Glnsscock had called on him In great
distress fearing that her children would
DO taken from her and that 1t was dell
cote matter to manage. / paid no atten
tion to the letter.
A scheme That Fail ed.
"Shortly afterwurd ! received anothei
letter from Mrs Glasscock stating tha
she must see me, and that she would cal
the following Monday morning, and in
forming me that her husband was II
Richmond. BY that time began to sus
poet conspiracy, and when the time ar
rived / had them watched She came
and attempted to get in my office, and hat
her little girl with her. Mr.. Glassoock
her husband was out In the street nea
the entrance Tho plan evidently was t
! got in my Office and then send her littl
girl for her husband and create a sensl
: tion.
"She wrote me ono or two other letters
J insisting that she could protect me If sh
could only sec me, and that her husban
+ was absent, and that It was necessary 70
her to see mo before he returned. On
o was brought to me by her little boy at th
capitol She and her husband were theI
= Immediately afterward
g "They hunted for me in pairs for sewers
n days. The plan, as l learned, was thf
. she was TO meet me, and he was to com
e up, accuse us Of intimacy, create a seen
t on the street and get it published.
II then employed detectives and asce
!, tained that they were living together an
i have been ever since the suit for divor'
/. was commenced. / obtained proof OF IL
Is conspiracy and my attorney presented
o TO Judge Bradley, aud there Is an ordl
/ of the court thnt the question Of this col
+ spiracy or oollusive suit shall first
( heard. The aflidayits are on file
u II have also learned that Mrs Glas
i cock and her husband have several co-col
ia spirators Of a disreputable character wi
L have been hanging around the capital +
* several years. Every letter she ever wro
~ mo was either a demand for money or
threat to iniure me unless she could &
money Both Mr. and Mrs. Glassooi
have made threats that they would hA
money or a scandal, and their co-conspir
y tors have frequently done the same
81 II know every movement shat they al
au their co-oonspirators have made for {
er last three months. / was put under {
IN painful necessity Of gathering facts a.
ga going before the court, with a view
~ Furnishing them for their blackmailii
us schemes
od nnhn q. CAN'T nrlnr.