The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-21
PLATT DENIES
 GIRLS STORY

f''' -----A-k- ., teontinued from Page one.) uine letter. I would not write letter in such a. tone to her now or at any time."- .s.s saf
 Platt was shown the letter. and he said A was in his handwriting.
 Why dideyOu address her so?" ques- toned sMr5sLk BBrDiersN'. ".4 e
 "Bseause Ishked to correspond with
 "Thes only one7'' f sH st.--
 She was ene." '
 Why did you send Miss Wood word to occupy a certain room in the Fifth Avenue Hotel?" iil'
 Told Hertto Await Signal.
 T don't understand why I did it. told her to await my signal because I was going to take dinner with her" !
 The Senator said he could not re- member whether he kept the engage Hient. but he was certain Miss Wood did not stay with him In Fhis suite that night. '4 He said he was not in the habit of innftings women to the Fifth Ave- Inue Hotel ssT7phfst .e sEf-f-h >'s"f
 He could not recall whether his sec fetare, Mfr. Howe was at the hotel on the night of November g, 1901, nor could he say whether Mr Howe who had been a clergyman. remained licensed minister while in fls employ. He was sure. however. that he had never heard of Mir. Howe performing a marriage ceremony during that period.
 Asked If Mir. Howe signed his let ters in fac simile of the Senator's hand writing. the witness said he never had seen such signatures. Is The Senator did not recall how many times he met Miss Wood in 1902, or how many letters he wrote to her in E laGG He went to the house of Mrs bLamorit lh West ssth Street at times. he said. but never sent for Miss Wood to meet him there. He was not per mitted to answer a question as to when visiting at the Lamont place.
 was there secret arrangement be- 1 tween you and Miss Wood as to mar riage?" he was asked.
 That is absolutely false" the Sem ator replied. ,-..... tin Miller frequently but he denied any his letters to Miss Wood which was told of in the settlement pnrporting to be signed by Miller, which was i'm tfoduced in the case yesterday.
 Did you obtain letters written by yourself to Miss Wood in 1sOSr'
 'T did not"
 | when did the letters come to your attention?"
 T don't recollect that I eyer had the letters"
 "what part did J. Martin Miller have Fin securing the return of eight let | ters?"
 q don't recall that he had anything to do with it." the Senator answered. 1 And he denied also that Miller ever de- manded money from his son Frank for a similar 'purpose. He did. however. endorse a s1.o0o note for Miller. he said,
 :, The Senator said he married Mrs i Lillian Janeway in October, 1903. He was not permitted to answer when asked if there had been previous se- cret marriage.
 animation he was asked If he recalled receiving a letter from Howe and Hum | mel in reference to a case which they contemplated to bring against him.
 He replied that he did. At that time he gave his son. Frank Platt, $f0,oo0 r to secure the return of certain letters 1 in this case.
 | He understood the case was brought | for Miss Wood, he said' | Replying to questions by Mir. Stanch- l field. Platt said that when he said previously that he paid no money for the letters he meant that he paid none to J. Martin Miller.
 l tention that his signature to a state l ment acknowledging Miss Wood as his legal wife was obtained by deception. counsel for Senator Platt today sub mitted to the court an affidavit by a Mrs Cunning. in which she said that ] she secured Senator Platts autograph by, sending a. book to his room in the Arlington Hotel with a request for his | signature Mrs. Dunning said she | gave the autograph to Miss Wood and that Miss Wood was delighted with it. A letter written by Miss Wood to Abraham HummeI, the former lawyer in 1905 was made public today. In 1t Miss Wood attacked J; Martin MiHer and the "poiticians", who she said had been associated with him in the con- spiracies against her,
 Tn a deposition of Frank Haight. | Chicago reporter which was read in court today Haight quoted Miss Wood as having told him in an interview 1 that she was unable to, find Edward | W. Rice whose name, was signed as officiating clergyman to her marriage 1 certificate and that she. sometimes be lfeved that the man, who performed the ceremony was one. .sof, Platts sec retares .
 In this deposition. Miss Wood was quoted as saying that she was aston fshed when Senator Platt came to the Fifth Avenue Hotel in 1901 and an- nounced that he was going to marry her" but knowing his craving for dramatic episodes" she agreed. She said the ceremony was a mere mar 1 riage contract.
 Edward Rowland, assistant janitor for the United States Express Com
 panv. but in 1906 valet to Senator
 Platt. testified to. the Senator's fur nishing an autograph on a blank
 sheet of paper to two women appli-
 cants at the Arlington Hotel in this city in 1906.
 The witness was shown the letter in which Senator Platt Is alleged to have admitted his marriage. to Miss Wood and fndentfffed the page on l uhtch thn Senafnr,a name was written