The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-22
MISS WOOD
AND MACHEN
The Former Discovered
Postal Frauds
nlCHEA REFUSED TO DIVIDE
The Woman. Who Was a Protege Of
Senator Plat, Exposed the
nlCHEA REFUSED TO DIVIDE

New York. Oct. 22-Since the mar
rage of Senator Thomas G. Platt
and Mrs. Lillian Janeway, Miss Mae
Wood who was declared to be the
New York senator's Nemesis, has
dropped out of sight.
1t is said that when Miss Wood
learned from the Senator's own lips
that he had anticipated her coming
and married Mrs. Janeway four. days
in advance of the date set, Miss
Wood, who is a very clever young
woman. and a member of the bar,
decided that she was in no position
to give the senator any trouble and
left town but only after vigorously
denying that the object of her visit
here was to give the senator and his
bride any annoyance.
Miss Wood said that she was here
to visit an aunt who was ILL., and that
as soon as she recovered sufficiently
she would take her on a trip west.
Whether she has gone west with the
sick relative or returned to Washing
ton is not known 1t is said, however
that before leaving New York she
said that she would return to her
desk in the money order department
Of the postOftice.
Miss Wood, by the way, is said to
have been the cause for the present
uUleayaI in the pOstOffice depart
near. and had it not been for a dis
pute with August W. Machen, who
incurred her enmity thepostal scah-
da might never have seen light.
1t is related that Miss Wood and
Machen Quarreled following an out
ing at which Miss Wood overheard
Machen and a fellow-official talking
about the graft" in government con-
tracts. She went to Machen after
wards with her information, and, it
is said made demands, which were
refused
Thirsting for revenge and being a
well trained newspaper woman, as
well as lawyer, she knew what to
do with the mass Of information and
SurmiSe she had collected while stem
ographer for a number Of men whose
names have since become involved IN
the scandal. She visited news
paper Office and succeeded in having
some disclosures made.
This was nearly year ago. A
member Of the firm of ]. P. Morgan &
Go. Went to the publisher of the
newspaper which contained the arti
l-eS about Machen and Beavers, and
persuaded him that all the matter
punished was bosh. The man who
mad been writing it was dismissed
h"' another newspaper man was per-
S"daed 10 interview Seymore w. Tul
Ie'- eN-cashier Of the Washington
Post office He talked about things
ne knew: il was not necessary fol
ann to do any guessing. Postmaster
NieneraI Payne said the Tulloch
enar1es were hot air" but a friend
~ --s newspaper man who made the
MS. publication and who is a fried
=. PRESIDENT Roosevelt. went TO the
-'s House and told the president
s--.'. a. that had been said by his
'.'eAc IullOch was not hot air
~ the same time Miss Wood be
san telling things about Machen to
~-e OF First Assistant Postmaster
'>~.:a. Wayne's confidential men
,' the purpose of having them reach
80 ears Of that official. He heard
l-em. From that time forward Ma
zen. zen Beavers, Hedges. Rand, and
80 oJher men involved in the scan
vi could not think of things toe
4SN 10 say about Miss Wood. They
SAD She ought not to be retained in
government service and tried
seN her out of it. Everything pos
ne was done to blacken the repu
,~.-on OF Miss Wood, but in spite OF
she has been able to retain hel
aosLlon, and, in fact, to practically