The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-15
AND WIFE SEPARATE.
ROTH SAY THERE'S BEEN No con-
DICT JUSTIFYING DIVORCE.
she Nv ned the Highland Mills Estate, a
Washington House. some L. n. Ex-
press 90. stock Before the settlement
Didn't Meet When They signed.

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Nar.h. Winslow & Viewer, who have rep
resented Mrs. Thomas C. Plat in the re-
car, differences between her and her hus-
and, senator Platt, handed out for publ
cation Yesterday the following statement:
owing to unhappy differences between
them the undersigned have this day
cyecutnd a deed of separation. While maxi
ing such announcement we wish to assert
with 81 possible emphasis the falsity OF the
,candalols articles which have lately ap-
reared in the public prints. While there
have been a series Of differences and dis
rut4~ which seem to make separation adj
yl-arlc, there has been no conduct upon the
part Of either which could possibly be the
foundation of a divorce action. No ques-
non of the infidelity Of either to the other
has ever been raised. Statements which
have charged violent and disgraceful scenes
between us or other ~improprieties upon
the rart of either of us are absolutely
falls, 1T. c. PLArT.
LILLIAN 7. PLArT.
"Nrw YORK. Nov. u, 1905"
Neither senator nor Mrs. Plat has any
statement to add to this" said Mr.. Viewer
when asked for further details Of the agree
ment Altogether too much has already
1sen said and written on the matter. Judge
Hatch Of Parker, Hatch a Sheehan, who
represent senator Plat, agreed with me
that the statement that we are now giving
o.t contains all that should be said about
the affair"
I'm signing the separation papers yes
to-day senator and Mrs. Platt did not
meet. Mrs. Plat went to the office OF. her
.aWycrs al II Broadway and Senator Plat
Went to The Office of ex-Justice Hatch at
e Nassau stree, 80 it was said.
The negotiations were conducted be-
tween the Two Offices. Mrs. Plat. il was
said first signed the papers and the agree
inert was taken to Hatch's office and signed
ov the Senator At the suggestion of
Justice Hatch all hands agreed to ma Ike
20 further statement than the one made
pIrlio by Mrs. Platt's lawyers.
senator Plat was driven from Justice
Hlrch's Office to his home at the Hotel
Gotham, Fifty-ffth street and Fifth avenue.
lie retired at 7 o'clock, being somewhat
fstigued by the proceedings OF the day,
and left word that he was not to be dis
urUed by any one. Selator Platt's health.
% was said az the hotel last night, is better
than it has been in some time.
That there has been a settlement made
~ the Senator was the general opinion
amo1g his friends last night. They said
rht. the properly a. Highland Mills had been
}eeded over TO Mrs. Plat soma time ago
ard hat she has owned for a long time
he residence in Washin gto1 which she
u"rupied before her marriage to him. In
I'll litioa to this property friends of the
&~ ator said thl. Mrs. Plat hal receive
oorc than 800 shares of United States Ex-
'ro.- stock many months z and that
q. income from this amounted to more
'lg. Sl.?0 a year.
TIE private affairs Of the senior Senator
from New York have found their way into
tho public prints many times in the last
low years. when a number of matters, each
distinct in itself but all Ringing on his mar
rage on October II, 1898, to Mrs. Lillian
I JaNcUay, have come to the notice OF the
TcanIng public.
Mac catherine Wood, sometime a menu
her Of the Nebraska bar, who held a
cor,t,hip in the Post Office Department in
Washington at the time Senator Plat mar
riod Mrs. Jdneway, came on to New York
FOR the purpose. it was said, of stopping
the marriage. Miss Wood was temporarily
quoted.
For some time there nave been rumo-s
oI difficulties between the Selttor AMI
ms wife. bat nothing was IN sntione1 of
these troubles publicly until early las
month. Then long accoun were pub.
l-hAt throughout the country that Ms.
Pl1tt was preparing 70 meet threatened
legal proceedings and that a divorce would
b" tho elimination. Stories told in grea.
detail Of the causes that led 10 the dis
agroenent were denied by Mrs Plat and
tho senator refused TO discuss them.
Mr.. Platt's maiden name was Carrie
thompson AMI she was born in PORTAGE
lalc, Nc. when the little town was NJ.
mlcl Inor' than a camp Of lumb ,rln IN.
UUt" ranote from civilization.
She had grown TO be a tall. black eyed.
pretty girl when one day there came -
in" uilage a travelling man named Snow.
rlrpos"y. il was said. to meet the village
hrI". Within three months Carrie rhomp-
son had become Mrs. Snow and was living
~ Woodstock, New Brunswick. There
her daughter. now Mrs. Carmody. was
horn. Two years after her marriage to
Snow trouble arose between them AMI they
were divorced.
Mr.. Snow came back to Portage Lake
send lived there for a year with he
hauv daughter. Then she came to
New York TO live, with very little
money and quite unknown, but with
" great deal Of ambition. Illness overlook
her shortly after she arrived and for a long
TIM" sho lay in a West Sid hospital in dan
ger 81 death. She was ATTENDED at the
hospital by a young house physician, DR..
theodore JaneSay. DR.. Janeway fell in
love With his good looking patient and uDon
h"r recovery they were married.
Mrs. Janeway met Senator Plat first in
1877, inst a short time after the death Of
Ir. Jsneway. Shortly after the meeting
Mrs, Janewsy secured n place in the Con
grcssional Library at Washington that
pad her $50 a month. Her daughter was
EMPLOYED also in a minor place in the library.
Nho1t this time Mrs. Janeway dropped the
nam" If Carrie and began to use the more
eIphOnloIs Lillian.