Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-08-30

at"r has refused to see her and has
put detectives on her track.
senator Stewart says:
About year aud half ago the
woman, GlaStStck, came To me- Ms A
southern lady in great distress. She
| represented that she had i've children;
! that her husband WAS unable, 10 sup-
port them; that they were suffering
Tor food and clothing. She said she
! WAS willing 70 work In any capacity,
aud wanted me to got her employment
N some OF the departments amy kind
of work would do, applied to the
| interior department for her. but they
had no place \ few times afterward
She camr t. my office, always sug.
SrstI some way through my influence
She could Yet work, and always rep
presenting the great distress that she
aud her family were suffering. AZ
one timN SHE came on Il cold rainy
| day and said that they had no coal,
aud SHE and her children were suffer
ing, ! gave her 81 to buy coal. At
another time she sent her little sirl
to me with u letter stating that one
Of her children had the typhoid fever
aud that she had no money to buy
mcdtctnr, aud unless she could get
money the child would probably die.
| sent her a few dollars | don't re-.
mcmhrr how many.
'pu two or three occasions she ob.
tatncd money from mo for like pur.
poses and finally she began writing
! letters assuming that Improper rela.
tons existed between us, and that |
had more TO lose than she met her
at the capitol one afternoon rs | was
going through the corridors, aud told
her that those were discriminating let.
| lrrN, aud that was bound from
that time on to treat her as black.
malcr \ few days after this re-
ccirrd letter from an attorney. Mr..
tlartngton asking II had any rea.
son to give why Mr. Giascock should
not bring suit against me for alien.
Atlng the affections of his wife, | sent
col Thompson To him to state to him
the facts lie wrote Col, Thompson
that his client was an honorable man
and was about to bring suit for dI.
Norre, then wrote to Mr.. Darlington
stating the facts for his Information,
suppoSna that that would end the
mattnr, hut the suit was begun and
/ Mrs, GlnScock sent me the subpoena
Some time afterward | received let
Ter from james Wilson stating that
| Mrs, Glasruck had called on him In
| nTnut IIAtrnSG fnnI.inp thut hnp .,blI-
! lren would he taken from her and
/ that II was 4 delicate matter to man.
age, | paid no attention to the letter
| shortly nftcrward | received another
/ letter from Mrs. Glascock stating
| that she must see my and that she
would call the following Monday
morning, and Informing mo that her
husband was IN Richmond, Va. Ry
that time | began to suspect con.
spiracy, and when the time arrived
| watched, She came and attempted to
get Into my office She had her little
gir with her Mr.. Gnseock, her nus.
band, was ont In the street near the
entrance. The plan evidently was to
get IN my office and then send her
htlc girl for her husband and create
Il sensation.
'She wrote me one or two other
| letters Insisting that she could protect
mo If she could only sec me- and that
her husband was absent, and that II
was necessary for her to see me before
he returned, one was brought to me
hy her little boy at the capitol She
! unI hnr huuIlu n thnpn ln,paaIl
atcly afterward. They hunted for me
IN pairs for several days. The plan, as
learned, was that she was to meet
mo and he was to come up, accuse
~ Of intimacy. create a scene on tho
street aud get II published
II then employed detective md
asc"rtnlncd that they were living TO,
gcthcr, and have been ever since tho
suit for divorce was begun, | obtained
proof Of the conspiracy aud my Mt,
torney presented IL to Judge Bradley
aud there Is an order Of the court that
tho question Of conspiracy Of eollnsiye
suit shall first l,o heard. The atlidnylts
are on file.
Every letter she over wrote me
| was either demand for moneysor n
threat to Iniure me unless she could
get money Both Mrs, and Mr. elias.
cock hnyo made threats that they
must have money or n scandal would
follow. | know every movement that
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 view Of furnishing
them for their backmnil schemes.
Mrs. Glascock has the audacity 10
say that last December my husband
left nc and we have not lived together
since, and since May II | have not
seen HIM The mendacity OF the
statement equals the character Of tho
woman They have been seen together
lately and all their nelghbors and
friends know they have been living
| together ms husband and wife ever
since the suit was begun and that
/ thnv arc living tngnt bpr today re-