Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-07
MAE WOOD'S PROOFS
Letters Which Ex- Government Clerk Says Platt Wrote Her.
HAS WEDDING RING, SHE SAYS

\ nAS WEUUlNu niNu, SHE SAIS Clergyman of Same Name as One She i Declared Married Her and the Aged Senator Died-Didn't Know Witness to Alleged Marriage.
 New York, Oct 7.-The World pub i lished a number of letters by which Mae Wood hopes to prove her alleged marriage to Senator Thomas c. Platt and which she has been directed by office of the supreme court prior to Oct. 10 in order that Platt's counsel < may read, copy and photograph them. The senator says he never saw. much ? less penned, such letters and declares the only knowledge he has of them is contained in yelled references made by Miss Wood in her correspondence. Next to her marriage certificate. which Platt also declares to be a forgery, Miss Wood thinks the following letter her strongest proof:
 < q am willing to admit you are my legal wife and will sign such state. ment and do frrevocably and uncondi tionally waive my right under the law to in anywise use the papers signed by you in October, 19O3 as know the same were illegally obtained through fraud and duress. Further than this I am unable to right the wrongs you have suffered Be patient and silent little longer, when all will be well and believe me-"
 Dinner Will Be Ready.
 Another of the papers which Miss Wood has been directed to file for the inspection of Platt's counsel purports to be an autograph letter from Sena- tor Platt written on Nov. 8, 1901, the day before the alleged marriage cere- mony was performed at the Fifth Ave nue hotel. The letter reads:
 Tt may be that may not arrive at the hotel till o'clock. You will oc- cupy your room Q5S) till I come and signal you that I am occupying the hCAI lOoil. blhiACk VIII bC itiuS "t 6:30, and we will be ready for it. sent you a card this afternoon telling you that expected you at o'clock
 Concerning this letter Miss Wood said to reporter:
 T kept the appointment made in this note from. the senator. The room No 15S was in the Fifth Avenue hotel and adjoined Platt's suit which consisted of parlor, sleeping apartment and bathroom, numbered 159 and 160. We were married in my room Saturday evening, and I remained until the fol lowing Monday. It was the first time 1 ever stayed there. There was secret door back of the bookcase in Platt's parlor that opened into my room. I still have the wedding ring given me by Senator Platt, a plain band of IS carat gold, without inscrip- tion. I don't know where he bought It. I wish I did.
 Doesn't Know Minister.
 "The name of the minister who mar ried us, as shown by the marriage cer- tifcate. was Edward w. Rice. I had never seen him before. nor have I seen him since. A few months after the marriage some one mailed me news paper clipping in which it was stated that Edward w. Rice. a clergyman, had died in Mount Vernon. I recall that the minister who married us was fn ordinary afternoon dress, including a frock coat and silk hat. The only witness to the marriage was man brought there by Platt. who signed himself e. R. Jones' on the marriage certificate. He was also a stranger to me, and I have never seen him since. He was q short. thickset man about thirty-fve or forty years old and had the general appearance of the ordinary political hanger on.''
 Mae Wood says she first met Platt in the spring of 1901 a few weeks after the death of his first wife Miss Wood had been employed in the rural free delivery branch of the pOstOffice de- partment and had resigned in March of that year. Sought Senator's Influence.
 q first went to call on Platt with a Mrs. Caulfield to see if he would get us positions as schoolteachers in the Philippines. He seemed to take great fancy to me from the first. consented to marry him two days be- fore the ceremony was performed. He had asked me many times before. but | had always passed it of as a joke and refused to take him seriously" In what purports to be q facsimile of a letter written by Platt on July 2. 1902, Miss Wood Is addressed as Dear Canty.' which, she says, was the pet name the senator applied to her when they were alone. In this letter the writer says: "I have been thinking of you and wondering how you are breasting the world alone. I am miserable I send you book of franks. did not think