The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-28

Washington, Aug. 27.-The statement
was published this morning that
Charles l.. Glasscock, of this city had
filed a suit for absolute divorce from
his wife, and that he had named as
correspondent a 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. Tonight an Associated
Press reporter asked him whether he
| had seen the statement to which he re-
piled:
81 did and presume it applies to me.
About a year and a half ago, the
woman Glasscock came to me as a
southern lady in great distress. She
represented that she had five children;
that her husband was unable to support
them and that they were suffering for
food and clothing. She said she was
willing to work in any capacity, and
wanted me to get her employment IN
some of the departments-any kind of
work would do. I applied to the interior
department for her, but they had no
place. A few times afterwards she
came to my Office, always suggesting
some way that through my influence
she could get work and always repre-
/ senting the great distress she and her
family were suffering. AT one time she
came CD a cold, rainy day and said
they had no coal and she and her
children were suffering. l gave her 50
to buy coal At anothnr time, she sent
her little girl to me with letter stat
| ing that one of her children had
| typhoid fever and she had no money to
buy medicine, and unless she could get
money the child would probably die.
sent her a few dollars. On two or three
occasions she obtained money from me
for like purposes and finally she COM
menced writing letters assuming that
improper relations existed between us
and that had more to lose than she.
Told Her She Was Blackmailer.
| 'I met her at the capitol one evening,
told her those were matchmaking let
ters. and that I was bound from that
time on to treat her as a blackmaller.
A few days after this, l received
letter from an attorney, Mr.. Clarlns-
ton, asking if had any reason to give
why Mr.. Glasscock should not orlng
suit against me for alternating the affec-
tions of his wife. l sent Colonel
Thompson to him to state to him the
facts He wrote Colonel Thompson
that his client was an honorable man,
and was about to bring suit Tor Oh
vorce. I then wrote to Mr. Clarington,
stating the facts for his Information,
supposing that would end the matter.
''But the suit was commenced and
Mr.. Glasscock sent me the subpoena
Some time afterward, 1 received let
ter from James H. Wilson, stating that
Mrs. Glasscock had called on him in
great distress, fearing her children
would be taken from her. and that 1t
was a delicate matter to manage.
Lott C1,0r-t 1Jy
afterward, I received another letter
from Mrs. Glasscock, stating that she
must, see me and that she would call
the following Monday morning, and in
forming me her husband was in Rich
mond Va.
Suspects u Conspiracy.
BY that time 1 began to suspect a
conspiracy, and when the time arrived
I watched. She came and attempted to
get into my office. She had her little
girl with her. Mr.. Galsscock, her hus
band, was out in the street near the
entrance. The evident intent was to get
into my office and then send her little
girl for her husband and create a SEN
sation.
"She wrote me one or two other let
tiers, insisting that She could protect
me, if she could only see me, and that
her husband was absent and that it
was necessary for her to see me before
he returned. One was brought to me
by her little boy. at the capitol. She
land her husband were there immedi
ately afterwards. They hunted for me
in pairs for several days. The plan, as
I learned, was that she was to meet me
intimacy, create a scene on the street,
and get it published
Must Have Money or Scandal.
Both Mrs. and Mr.. Glasscock have
made threats that they must have
money or a scandal and their Cocoon
spirators have frequently done the
same. I know the movement they and
their co-conspirators have made for the
last three months. / was put under
the painful necessity of gathering these
facts and going before the court with
a view of Furnishing them for their
blackmail schemes.
Mrs. Glasscock has the audacity to
SAY: Last December my husband left
me and we have not lived together
since, and since May II 1 have not seen
him. They have been seen together
lately. and all their neighbors and
friends know they have been living to-
gether as husband and wife ever since
4 the suit was commenced, and that they
are living together today. If she has
seen affidavits on file she is a brave
woman to make a statement"
She is Quite Handsome.
Mrs. Glasscock has given her. yer
sion of the story. She is about 30 years
old and quite handsome in appearance.
She says she came here with her five
children and husband three years ago.
| His salary in the employ of the Rich
mond & Danyille company was re-
duced until it was not sufficient to
/ support them. She attempted to secure
a place in the departments through
several senators, among them Senator
Stewart. She told him of her condition,
and Senator Stewart, she says loaned
her $40, and various times after that
upon her representation that she was
in want he gave her money.
''The necessities of my little children
were the only motives had for taking
these loans,'' she said. She aeknowl-
edged she had visited the senator many
times, but always on the same errand.
Her husband, she declares, became ac-
ouainted with these visits and left her.