The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-08
MAE WOODS PROOF.
Document on Which She Expects to
Establish Marriage to Plat.
New York, Oct. s.

Mae c. Wood, Washington, D.. C.
Ny Dear Mae:-I am willing to admit
you are my legal wife and will sign
such statement and do irrevocably and
Internationally waive my right under
the law to in any wise use the papers
signed by you in October, 1903, as
know the same were Illegally obtained
through fraud and duress. Further than
this, am unable to right the wrongs
you have suffered. Be patient and ST.
lent a little longer, when all will be
we'll. and believe me, Yours truly.
T. c. PLATT.
by which Mae Wood hopes to prove her
alleged marriage to Senator Thomas G.
Platt and which she has been directed
by Justice Ford to produce in the
clerks office of the supreme court prior
to October 10. in order that Platt's coun-
sci may read, copy and photograph it.
The senator says he never saw, much
less penned such a letter and declares
the only knowledge he has of it is con-
tanned 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 letter her strongest proof.
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-
the day before the alleged marriage GER
emory was performed at the Fifth Ave-
nue. hotel. The letter reads:
Friday, Nov. 8.
Dear Catharine:-It may be that I
may not arrive at the hotel till 8
| o'clock.s You will occupy your room
Q58) till I come and signal you that L
am occupying next you. Dinner Will pc
ready at $3.50 and we will be ready LOT
it. I sent you a card by note to you
this afternoon telling you that l ex-
pected you at 4 o'clock.
Sincerely yours,
Married in Her Room, She Says.
Concerning this letter, Miss Wood
said to a World reporter:
Il kept the appointment made In TINS
note from the senator. The room NO:
1853, was in the Fifth Avenue hotel, and
adjofned Platts suite, which consisted
of a parlor, sleeping apartment ana
bath room, numbered 159 and 160 We
were married in my room Saturday eV-
ening and remained until the follow
ing Monday. 1T was the first time =!
ever stayed there. There was secret
door back of the bookcase in Platt
parlor that opened into my room.
81 still have the wedding ring given
me by Senator Plat, a plain band OF
| 1S-carat gold, without inscription. l
don't know where he bought IL. L
wish did.
| THE name of the minister who mar
ried us, as shown by the marriage GER
tificate was Edward w. Rice l had
never seen him before, nor have seen
marriage some one mailed me news
paper clipping in which it was stated
| that Edward w. Rice, clergyman,
| had died in Mount Vernon. L recall
| that the minister who married US was
| in ordinary afternoon dress, including
! a frock coat and silk hat. The only
witness to the marriage was man
brought !here by Platt, who signed
| himself &c. R. Jones" on the mar
| rage certificate. He also was
10 seen
| him since. He was a short. thlck-set
man. about thirty-five or forty years
old, and had the general appearance
of the ordinary, political hanger-on.
Mae Wood says she first met Plat
in the spring of 1901, few weeks
after the death of his first wife. Miss
Wood had been employed in the rural
free delivery branch of the postomce
department and had resigned IN
March of that year.
Sought Senator's Influence.
ct first went to call on Plat with a
Mrs Caulfeld to see if he would get
us positions as school teachers in the
Philippines. He seemed to take
great fancy to me from the nrst. 1
consented to marry him two days be
fore the ceremony was performed He
had asked me many times before, but
I had always passed 1t OH as JOKE
and refused to take him seriously.
In what purports to be fac smile
Of letter written by Platt on July 3,
1902, Miss Wood is addressed as Dear
CAVITY" which she says was the pet
name the senator applied to her when
thev were alone. In this letter the
| writer says:
| "I have been thinking of you and
wondering how you are breasting the
world alone. am miserable. SEND
Won a book of franks 1 did not think
| it wise to furnish the pass. 1t is too
| free and OPEN.
The initials ct. c.. P" are signed to