The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-08-31
STEWART N 4 SCANDAL.
THE NEVADA sENAToa IN
VoLVED in 4 DIVORCE SUIT.
HE IS NAMED As CORRESPONDENT.
He Denounces the Suit as an Attempt
at BIackmaiI and Denies fhs Charges
Most EmphatIcalIy-He Has Clear
Proof of a Conspiracy TO Iu--
in His Pubic Life and
Domestic Happiness.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 29.-The state
ment was published yesterday that
Charles L. Glasscoclz of this city had
fled suit for absolutc divorce from
his wife and that he had named as CO.
respondent senator whose name was
not given. Later the fact became
known that Senator Stewart of Nev1-
da was probably the senator concerned
and last night he said: 81 presume it
applies to me. About a year AMI
half ago the woman Glasscock came
to me as Southern lady in great
distress She represented that she
had five children, that her husband
was unable to support them, that they
were suffering for food and cloth
ing. She said she was willing
to work in any capacity and wanted
me to get her employ mont in some of
the epartments-any kind of work
would do. 1 applied to the Interior
department for her, but they had no
place. A few times afterward she
came to my Office. always sug costing
some way that through my influence
she could get work and always repre-
senting the great distress she AMI 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. 1 gave
her SIS to buy coal. At another
time she sent her little girl to M
with q letter stating that one of her
children had typhoid fever and that
she had no money to buy medicine,
and unless she could get money the
child would probably die. I sent her
few dollars. On two or three occa-
sions she obtained money from N
for like purposes and finally S he COM
menced writing letters assuming that
improper relations existed between
us, and that had more to lose than
she. I met her at the capitol one
evening and told her that those were
blackmailing letters, and that was
bound from that time on to treat her
as blackmailer.
ga few days after this Irecelvcd
letter from Mr.. Darlington. asking If
I had any reason to give why Mr..
Glasscock should not bring a suit
against me for alternating the affec-
tions OF his wife. 1 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 q suit
for divorce. I then wrote to Mr.. CIar-
ington stating the facts fo- mis- infor-
nation, supposing that would end
the matter. But the Stlit- was
commenced and Mrs GlaSscockI sent
me the subpoena. Sometime after
wards received letter froaaa James
a. Wilson stating thatjAl G5asscoek
had called on him in great distress,
fearing that her children wousT be
taken from her and that it was I s9eli-
cate matter TO manage. [ paid ma at
tention to the matter. Shortly afser-
ward 1 received another letter frOsn
Mrs GIasscock stating that she must
see me and that she would call the
following Monday morning, AMI in
forming me that her husband was in
Richmond, Va. By that time began
to suspect a conspiracy, and when the
time arrived l watched. She came
and attempted to get into my Office
She had her little girl with her. Mr..
GlaSscock, her husband, was out on
the street near the entrance. The plan
evidently was to get in my office and
then send her little girl fo- her hus-
band and create d sensation She
wrote me one or two other letters in
sisting that she could protect me If she
could only see me, and that her hus-
band was absent. land that it was
necessary for her to see me before he
returned One was drought to me bv
her little boy at the. capitol She and
her husband were there Immediately
afterwards. They hunted for me in
pairs for several days. The plan, as /
learned, was that Ale was to meet me
L, -
intimacy, create n scene on the street
and get it published
81 then employed a detective and
ascertained that they we're living to-
gether 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 coIlusive suit shall first be heard
The affidavits are on file l have also
learned that Mrs. GIasscock and her
husband have several co-eonspirat tors
OF a disrePutabIe character, who
have been sauntering around the
capitol for several years Every
letter she ever wrote me was
either demand for money or threat
to injure me unless she could get
money. Both Mr.. and Mrs G1asscock
have made threats that they must
have money or a scandal and their CO.
conspiritors have frequently done the
same ] know every movement that
they and their eo-conspEitors have
made for the last three months
was put under the painful necessity
of gathering these facts and going be
fore the court with a view of punish
ing them for their blacIzmail schemes
Mrs. Glasscock had the audaeity to
say: Last December my husband
left me and we have not lived to-
xether since, and since May u, / have
not seen him The meHdacity of the
statement equals the character of the
woman. They have been seen To-
rether lately and AL their neighs1oEs
and friends know they have been iv-
Ing together as husband and wife
ever since the suit was commenced
and that they are living together To-
day. z she has seea zHdavftS On
file. she Is brave woman 20 make
statement