The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-05-20
CONSPIRACY BY
HIGH OFFICIALS
or THE GOVERNMENT TO Oh.
TAIN PLATT's LOVE LET.
TIERS IS ALLEGED.
BY MISS MAE WOOD IN COURT.
President RooseveIts Secretary and
es.Postmaster General Wynne
Are Named as the Al.
legged Plotters.

New YORK, May 2O.-High govern
ment officials at Washington are oil
legged to have conspired to obtain pos.
session of love letters said TO have
been written by United States sena
tor Thomas G. Plat to Miss Mae C.
Wood In signed statement intro.
duced as evidence during Tuesdays
hearing in Miss Woods suit for di.
vorce against the senator.
The statement which was intro.
duced after the court bad denied q
motion by counsel fUr Senator Plat
TO dismiss the complaint bears what
purports to be the signature OF !.
Martin Miller and Miss Wood said
that while she did not see the sigma.
ture affixed, she was assured by Mil.
Ter that II was genuine. The state
ment was prepared by Miller ut her
request, she testified
II declared that Miller was asked
by high officials in Washington and
New York TO get possession of
Platt's love letters" that the papers
when obtained were not to be given
TO Plat. but were to be turned over
20 "Mr. Loeb in Washington" and
that when the plan to get possession
of the original papers failed scandal
was begun in the newspapers to force
Miss Wood to come to terms.
"Wynne, first assistant postmaster
general. started the ball rolling by
getting New York newspaper to
print the article as IT first appeared"
says the statement, which concludes:
II was gotten into the conspiracy
by powerful officials whom i dare not
displease from newspaper or po-
litical standpoint. consulted Mr..
Howe, Senator Platt's secretary, fre-
quently and acted at all times under
the direction of Loeb and Platt."
Ex-Postmaster General Robert
Wynne is the present American con.
sui general to Londan. J. Martin MIL.
Ter, a former newspaper man, recent.
ly was American consul at Rheims,
France.
did Miller ever say anything to
you about the letters?" asked the ex-
amining attorney of Miss Wood
Yes" she replied; che said that II
he got the letters the Platts would |
never get them"
What was he going to do with !
them?"
Hold them over platt's head, be-
lieve." she answered
The statement puiporting TO have
been signed by Miller bears the date |
OF October IS, 1908.
In her testimony given earlier in |
the day Miss Wood, then under cross.
examination, was led TO tell OF the |
circumstances under which she |
signod, in 1903 "a this city, a release
Of Senator Platt from any claims she
may have had against him. She tes- |
titled that she received from A. II. |
Hummel the sum OF 81 500 upon sign.
ing the statement, but denied that
she was aware OF all it's contents.
London. May POT have absolute.
ly nothing TO say about this subject"
was the emphatic reply OF Robert J.
Wynne, the American consul general
at London, when questioned last night
regarding the statement made by Mae
Wood In her divorce suit against Sen.
ator Plat
Washington, May 20. = Secretary
Loeb said last night that he know
nothing about the allegations con.
tanned In the statement signed ~ Mar.
tin Miller" and brought in the Wood.
Platt suit in New York and that the
statements made therein, In so far az
they concern him, are wholly untrue.