The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-11-15

added another interesting bit TO the mar
riage by coming on to New York for the
purpose IL was said of stopping the
marriage.
Mrs Wood claimed that the senator had
married her I'm the Fifth Avenue hotel on
Nov. 9. 1901 She had also threatened,
when the Widow Janeway came into the
senator's life, TO publish book TO be call
ed The Love Letters of Boss and
which was 10 be composed of a number of
letters she said she had received from
Senator Platt. Mrs. Woods troubles were
said to have been quieted by a big finan-
cial settlement.
with the stories OF the senator's mar
riage and the part taken I'm it by Mrs.
WoSd still fresh i'm mind there came a
notice of the marriage OF Margaret Louise
Snow, "a daughter OF the present Mrs.
Platt by a former marriage. and Col.
Francis j. Carmody in December, 1905.
Four months after the wedding Mrs.
Carmody and the colonel parted by
mutual consent.
The troubles in the Carmody family
were reviewed in the papers two months
ago, when Col. Carmody permitted to
bo published a number OF love letters
he had received from his wife when she
was Miss Snow The marriage of the
young couple i'm Grace church had been
attended by many persons prominent in
social, political and financial circles, and
the news that the couple had separated
caused general interest.
Since last April Mrs. Carmody had
been living quietly with her mother at
the Platt country home in Highland
Mills, and had endeavored 10 keep their
marital troubles a secret. Her husband
was quoted as saying, when ,he news
OF the disagreement became public, that
Mrs Thomas Platt had much to do
with his family troubles
STORIES or DIVORCE.
For some time there have been rumors
OF difficulties between the aged senator
and his middle-aged wife, but nothing
was mentioned OF these troubles publicly
until the early part Of last month. Then
long accounts were published throughout
the country that Mrs. Platt was prepar
ing TO meet threatened legal proceedings
and that a divorce would be the culmina-
ton. Stories were told in great detail of
the causes that lead to the disagreement,
which were denied by Mrs Platt and
which the senator refused TO discuss.
Mrs. Platts maiden name was Carrie
Thompson, and she was born in Portage
Lake, Me, when the little town was not
much more than a camp OF lumber men,
quite remote from eirilization--E Even
when very young the girl was noted for
her beauty. While her brother worked the
farm and helped the lumoermen, Carrie
SAhht'h at Alit NilltiEf SNiopl
She had grown 10 be tall black-eyed.
pretty girl, when one day there came TO
! tho village a travelling man named Snow
purposely, it was said. to meet the VIII
lage belle. Within three months Carrie
! Thompson had become Mrs. Snow and
was living in Woodstock, n. II. There
her daughter, nov. Mrs. Carmody. was
born. Two years after her marriage to
Snow trouble arose between them and
they were divorced.
Mrs. Snow, prettier and livelier than
even, came back to live I'm Portage for a
| year with her baby daughter. Then she
came 10 New York. She had very little
money and was quite unknown here. but
she had a great deal OF ambition. Illness
overlook her shortly after she arrived and
| for a long time she lay i'm a West Side
! hospital in danger OF death. She was at
tended at the hospital by n young house
! physician, Or. Theodore Janeway. DR..
| Janeway fell in love with his good-look-