Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-13
AGAINST Mr.. PLATT
MISS MAE WOOD THINKS SHE HAS
A CLAIM.
Goes to New York With Letters in the
Case-Breach of Promise Suit
Possible.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, October 13.-Miss Mae c.
Wood. clerk in the money order depart
Eient OF the Post Office Department at
Washington, with her lawyer, from Wash
fEgton, has arrived in this city for the
purpose Of bringing suit against United
States Senator Thos. C. Plat of this state
for breach of promise to marry.
Miss Wood. Immediately on her arrival.
called at the Fifth Avenue Hotel with
her lawyer, for the purpose of seeing the
senator. Strenuous efforts are being
made to hush the matter up and keep 1t
out of the newspapers, and to that end
all of the employees have been cautioned
to say nothing about the episode.
Talk Here.
The absence of Miss Mae Wood from her
desk in the money order system of the
Post Office Department was the cause Of
much speculation today.
Miss Wood recently returned from a trip
to England which exhausted the regular
leave Of thirty days granted to all en-
ployes in the classified service of the gov
eminent.
Miss WOOD went to New York last night.
and that she was accompanied by a legal
adviser.
According to this rumor she took with
d
tender nature, which she claims to have
received from Senator Thomas c. Platt of
New York, whose marriage to Mrs. Lillian
T. Janeway Is set for Thursday of this
week.
According to this rumor, which was cir
culated generally about the Post Office De-
partment, Miss Wood during the past sum-
mer had modest trousseau prepared and
impaired the information to her intimate
friends that she was to marry Senator
Platt.
1t was learned from number of sources
In the Post Office Department today that
Senator Platt during the last year called
frequently to see Miss Wood during her
working hours. and was seen with her not
1nfreauently away from the department.
Miss Wood came originally from Omaha,
where she was employed in the general Of
fees Of a railroad company She was en-
ployed in the New York post office for
time and was transferred to the Post Office
Department through the influence, 1t is
said, of Senator Plat.
The announcement of Senator Platt's ap-
preaching marriage to Mrs. Janeway was
heralded almost simultaneously with the
return Of Miss Wood from London To
her friends Miss Wood Is said to have
treated the announcement as canard.
When she learned, however, that 1t was
true, she Is understood to have sought
legal advice.
Mr. Edward L. Kimball, chief clerk Of
the money order system, had a conference
with First Assistant Postmaster General
Wynne shorty before noon today. AS he
was leaving the first assistants private
office he was asked if Miss Wood had been
granted leave Of absence.
She Is on leave without pay" he said.
Was the leave granted by you?" was
asked.
1T was not was his reply. 81 only know
that the records show that she is on leave
without pay. and that the ground for her
absence Is that she has near relative who
is dangerously sick and needs her atten-
tion.'
First Assistant Postmaster General
Wynne later said that she had applied for
a leave, and the same had been granted.