The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-28
AGAINST A SENATOR
STEWART, OF NEVADA. AS CORE
SPONDENT IN A DIVORCE CASE.
Charles l.. GIasscOck. of Washington,
Makes Serious Charges, Which Are
Branded as B~lackmail.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.-The statement
was published this morning that Charles
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 iden-
tity was not clearly shown. The fact be-
came known that Senator Stewart, of Ne
vada, was probably the Senator referred
to in the article. Tonight a reporter asked
him whether he had seen the published
| statement, TO which Senator Stewart re-
piled as follows:
II did, and L presume that it applies to
me. About a year and a half ago the
Glasscock woman came to me as a South
ern 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 ca
pacity, and wanted me to get her employ
ment in some of the departments-any kind
of work would do. / applied to the In
| terror 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 representing the great
distress that she and her family were suf-
fering. 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. At another time
she sent her little girl to me with a 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 a few dollarS-I do not remember how
many. On one or two other occasions she
obtained money from me for Ike charities:
assuming that improper relations existed
between us. and that L had more to lose
than she.
MET HER AT THE CAPITOL.
81 met her at the Capitol one after
noon as l was going through the corridors,
and told her that those were Matchmaking
letters, and that l was bound from that
time on to treat her as a blackmailer. A
few days after this 1 received a letter from
an attorney. Mr.. Darlington, asking il l had
any reason TO give why Mr.. Glasscock should
not bring suit against me for alternating the
affections of his wife. l sent Colonel
Thompson TO him TO state to him the Facts.
He wrote Colonel hompso that his client
was an honorable man and was about to
bring suit for divorce. then wrote TO Mr..
Darlington stating the facts for his infor-
nation, supposing that would end the mat
ter. But the suit was commenced, and
Mrs. Glasscock sent me the subpoena.
Some time afterwards 1 received a let
ter from James II. Wilson, stating that
Mrs. Glasscock had called on him in great
be taken from her, and that it was a deli
cate matter TO manage. l paid no attention
to the letter. Shortly afterwards 1 re-
stating that she must see me, and that
she would call the following morning. andN
Richmond, Va. BY that time 1 began to
suspect a conspiracy, and when the time
arrived | had them watched. She came
and attempted to get into my Office, and
had her little girl with her. Mr.. Glass
cock. her husband. was out in the street
to get in my Office and then send her little
girl for her husband and create a sensa-
ton.
"She wrote me one or two other letters,
insisting that she could protect me If she
could only. see me- and that her husband
her TO see me before he returned. One was
br92ug95 to me by her little boy at the Cap
mediately afterwards. They hunted for
re In pairs for several days. The plan. as
and tia he Was 4 to c come s np. @ accuse Sc u mee of mie
timacy, create a scene on the street and
II then employed a detective and ascer-
tanned that they were living together, and
have been ever since the suit for DIVORCE
conspiracy, and my attorney presented 1t
to Judge Bradley, and there Is an order
of collusive suit shall first be heard. The
affidavits are on file. / have also learned
that Mrs. Glasscock and her husband have
several coconSpiratorS Of a disreputable
character, who have been hanging around
the Capitol for several years. Every let
ter she ever wrote me was either a demand
she could get money; Both Mrs, and Mr..
Glasscock have made threats that they
would have money or a SGanqal' and their
| SAME. I kDON every movement lldl they
and their coconspirators have made for the
last three months. i 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'S CLAIMS.
"Mrs. Glasscock has the audacity to say
that last December my husband left me
and we have mot lived together since, and
since May y 1 have not seen him. The
mendacity of this statement illustrates the
character of the woman. Scores of persons
have seen them together daily during the
last three months. and all their neighbors
and friends know that they have been liv-
ing together as husband and wife ever
since the suit was commenced, and that
they are living together to-day. If she
had seen the affidavitS on file she would
have been a brave woman to have made
such a statement" B.
Mrs. GlasscocK, who is now in this city,
has given her version of the story. She is
about thirty 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
Richmond & Danville Railroad Company
was reduced until it was not sufficient to
supply them necessary wants. She at
tempted TO secure a place in the depart
ments through several Congressman, among
them Senator Stewart. She told OF her
condition and that of her children and
Senator Stewart loaned her SO and at
various times after that. on her represent
tation that she was in want, gave her
other money. The necessities OF my little
children" she says, were the only mo-
tives L had for taking these loans"
She acknowledged that she had visited
the Senator many times, but always on the
same errand. Her husband. she decla res.
became acquainted with these visits and