Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-06-02

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 whole sensational affair was some thing Mrs. Elias apparently never dreamed. But MT. Platt, after having given $685,3S5, as alleged in the papers of the suit, to Mrs. Elias finally de- { cided to give no more
 While the publicity attending the ac- ton against the woman has placed Mir. Platt in an unenviable light, it has at last brought absolute vindication to the name of Andrew H: Green, known as the father of Greater New York" who was murdered by Cornelius Will Hams, a negro, on Nov. 13 last. The likeness between MT. Green and MT. Platt is remarkable, and this, coupled with the fact that Mir. Platt used the name of Green in the. Elias home, eX plains how Williams mistook the iden- tity of the man he killed.
 Dfstrict~Attorney Jerome, who talked with Mrs. Elias after the murder of MT. Green, learned the story about MT. Platt, but did not feel justified in re- vealingsit, though he positively assert ed that MT. Green had not been ac- quainted with Mrs. Elias.
 It is said that in Philadelphia, from which place she came, Mrs. Davis, or Mrs. Elias, had served term in the Moyamensing prison for petty larceny. Later she was an inmate of an aims house, where a child was born to her. The father of this child, a negro, is. now married and prosperous drug gist. When she first came to New York Mrs. Davis annoyed this man un- til she was sent to Blackwell's island for three months.
 Up to that time the woman's efforts to obtain money without work had not met with success, bat the tide in her fortunes turned soon after leaving the Blackwelrs Island penitentiary when she met MT. Platt. From that time she ceased to be a negress, by her own representations, and, as MT Platt swears, represented herself as an un- married woman of pure Spanish blood. She obtained a divorce from Matthew c. Davis, a negro car porter, and di- rected her efforts toward winning Mr. Platt's confidence.
 It is said that when child was born to Mrs. Elias on April 5, 1904, she told MT. Platt he was the father This as- sertion the millionaire says, is untrue, the real father of the child being Japanese named Cato. Under threat of exposing his relations with her again MT. Platt says that from January to May of this year she. got $31, ,553. In this year the demands as set forth in the affidavit increa sed in the following ratio: January, $5,00O; February, $11,- O33; May, $15,5OO
 The amounts which the woman de- handed kept on increasing until in 1902 they summed up nearly $2O0,OOO for the year. The ascending scale for that year is shown by the following figures February, $6,0O0; April, $9,60O; August, $12,S29; December, $23,04O.
 As her demands for June of this year, ,$15, 5,OOO, or $500 per day, exceeded all former demands, MT. Platt decided he no longer would pay, and that he would himself bring about the expos ure she threatened. thus putting an end to the blackmail to which, he claims, he has been subjected:
 Almost every word that MT. Platt has said is untrue" was the decIara- tion made by Mrs Elias through Wash lllSLOH DEdu1lS, WHO 1S representing HSF interests. Tt is true that I have known MT. Platt very well indeed, but it is not true that ever obtained any money from him by threats or black mail. What money I have I came by honestly, and purpose to keep it." Assassin Went to XIII Senator PIatt.
 LAKEVILLE, Conn, June 2.-Dis- trict Attorney Jerome last night made public the hitherto concealed fact that Cornelius Williams, the crazy assassin of Andrew H. Green, had made up his mind to kill United States Senator Thomas O. Platt of New York. With his murderous design close to his heart Williams hunted high and low for Sem ator Platt He had heard the name of Platt (really that of John R. Plato, and his cracked brain associated 1t with that of the innocent senator, as in the case of the innocent A. Fl. Green.