The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-08-28
A CASE OF BLACKMAIL.
Senator Stewart as o-Respondent
in a Divorce Case.
A SOUTHERN LADY" IN DISTRESS.
Tho Senator Says the Wife Of Ball Play ar
GlassooSk First Appealed TO His Charity
and Then Threatened Him but He Has
Chsckmated Her and Her Husband.

ana Then Ihrsateneu Rim, nut re has
Chsokmated Her and Her Husband.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 2s-Thc statement
was published yesterday that Charles l..
Glasscock. of this city, had filed a suit for
absolute divorce from his wife and that
he had named as correspondent n senator
whose name had not been given and
whose identity was rot clearly shown.
Tho fact Became known thnt Senator
Stewart, of Nevada, was probably the
senator referred to in the article. An AS
sociated Press reporter asked him whether
he had seen the published statement, 20
which Senator Stewart replied as follows:
Il did, and presume that it applies to
me. About year and a half ago the
woman Glasscock came to me as u south
ern lady in great distress, She repre-
sented that she had five children, that her
husband was unable to support them, and
that they were suffering for food aud
clothing She said she was willing to
work in any capacity, and wanted me to
get her employment in some of the de-
partments. l tried in vain to secure her
position, as she applied I'd me several
times"
Subsequently, said the senator, the wo-
man came to his Office on several occas sions
and told of her poverty, and On one occa-
sion sent her little girl with d letter. Each
time he had given her sums of money.
The senator continued:
FINALLY she commenced writing let
ters, assuming that improper relations
existed between us, and that bad more
to lose than she had. i met her at the
Capitol one afternoon as j was going
through the corridors, and told her those
were blackmailing letters, and hat l was
bound from that time 70 treat her as q
blackmailer. few days after this l re-
ceived letter from an attorney, Mr.. Car.
rington, asking il l had any reason to
give why Mr.. Glasscock should not bring
a suit against mo for alternating the af
fections of his wife j wrote to Mr.. Car
rington stating the facts for his inforna
tion, supposing that that would end the
matter. But the suit was commen cd,
and Mrs. Glasscock sent me the subpoena.
''Some time afterwards / received n let
ter from James Fl. Wilson stating that
Mrs Glasscock had called on him in great
distress, fearing that her children W ould
be taken from her, and that it was a deli
cate matter to manage. ! phid no atten,
tion to the letter.
''Shortly afterwards received ano otheI
letter from Mrs. Glasscock stating that
she must see me, and that She would call
the following Monday morning. and in.
forming me that her husband was in
Richmond, Va. BY that time 1 began to
suspect a conspiracy, and WI hen the time
arrived had them watched. She came
and attempted to get into my Office, and
had her little Igirl with her. Mr.. Glass.
Dock, her husband, was out in the street
near the entrance. The plan evidently
was to get into my Office and then send
her little girl for her husband and create
sensation. ...
"She wrote me one or two other letters.
insisting that she could protect me if she
could only see me and that her husband
was absent, and that it was necessary fol
her to see me before he returned. On,
was brought to me by her little boy at ths
Capitol. She and her husband were there
afterward. They hunted for me in pair,
for several days. The plan, MS learned
was that she was to meet me and he wa.
to come up, accuse us of intimacy, Great,
scene on the street and get 1t published
II then empl Dyed n detective and nscer
tanned that they were living together, and
have been ever since the suit for divorce
was commenced. l obtained proof of tbs
conspiracy and my attorney presented IL
to Judge Bradley, and there is an order oi
the court that the question of this con
spiracy of collusive suit shall first bs
heard. The affidavits are on file.
Il have also learned that Mrs. Glasscoch
and her husband have several co-conspir
ators of a disrcputable character, who hav.
been hanging around the Capitol for sew
erul years livery leutor sne ever "rott
me was either demand for money
threat to injure me unless she could ge
money. Both Mrs. sp2 hF. Glasscocl
have made threats that they would hav,
money or a scandal, and theit co-conspira
tors have frequently done the same.
81 know every movement that they ant
their co-conspirators have made for tn,
last three months. 1 was put under tn,
painful necessity of gathering these fact.
and going before the court. with view
Of Furnishing them for their blackmai
schemes.
"Mrs. Glasscock has the audacity tt
say that Last December my husband
left me and we have not lived togethe
since, and since May IL l have not seer
him.
'The mendacity of this statement Illus
trates the character of the woman. Score
of persons have seen them together dali,
during the last three months, aud al
their neighbors and friends know tina
they have been living togeth her as husband
and wife ever since the suit was com
menced, and that they are living togethe
today"
Ex-Catcher Bsnuett's hensflt.
BOSTON, Aug 2S-Charlie Bennett, for