The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-22
GRADUATING EXERCISE.

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 Forthwith Justice OGorman ordered Miss Wood committed to the Tombs on the charge of perjury, fixing her bail at 5000.
 She was obviously staggered by the sudden turn of affairs and the shock caused by the order of arrest which the court made. She quickly regained her composure. however.
 Later Miss Wood had not been able to furnish the bail demanded in her case and was still locked up in the Tombs
 Frank Platt Testifes.
 Frank H. Platt son of United States Senator Platt, testifying in the suit, de- clared that he believed none of the let ters introduced by Miss Wood as evidence in her suit were copies of those written by his father He had examinated care fully the original copies of letters writ ter by the senator to Miss Wood, which were turned over to him by Abraham Hummel upon payment of $10,000, he said and there were no such communications among them as the alleged copies pro- duced in court. On cross examination Mir. Platt said many of the letters from his father to Mss Wood were brief notes of invitation He was willing to pay s10,00O0 for their re- turn, he said, because his father was about to be married to Mrs. Janeway and he and his father thought it would oe best to get rid of Miss Wood.
 What was your object in destroying l1tk
 Well, the plaintiff was writing for the letters and going to the newspapers. and as l did not think that she had stayed bought I destroyed all but a few of the letters There was nc suggestion of mar riage or divorce or disgrace in any of the letters I destroyed
 Telephone Message.
 The witness was asked about the "testi- mony of the witness and who was the senator's former valet, and if he knew about the letter in which the senator Is allegd to have admitted the marriage to Miss Woods.
 s'well on Christmas Day, 1906 my father got letter from the plaintiff, and while we were talking about 1t the tele- phone rang and Unanswered It. voice that said she was Mae Wood replied and wanted to talk to my father. I told her she could not talk to him, and if she had anything to say to come down to my office and say 1t to me-. Rowland was in the room, overheard the conversation and then told me about two women going to fathers room in Washinguh and ask ing for his autograph on the blank sheet of paper @
 The deposition of Alice Davis, private detective, was read by counsel for the defense. It described alleged efforts by Miss Wood in November. 1903, to employ nox fa Wpf ffh loff a movements in Washington commits sion which Miss Davis said she refused when Miss Wood failed to satisfy her that her would-be employer was really Senator Platts wife.
 Cause of Enmlty.
 Delaney Nicoll. who was retained in 1908 by Senator Platt relative to Miss Woods threatened proceedings against him, testified to talk with Miss Wood in A. H. Hummers office in this city. He saw Miss Wood personally, he said, and asked her what the cause of her enmity to Senator Platt was.
 ..She told me-" testified MT. Nicoll, "that if it had not been for Mrs. Jane way she could have married Senator Platt"
 William J. Kingsly. handwriting ex- pert testified as to his opinion that the typewriter matter in the letter in which Senator Platt is alleged to have admitted his marriage to the plaintiff. was not on the paper when the words Yours truly, T. C. Platt, New York" were written. He also believed the signature Edward w Rice' on the marriage certificate was retouched by another than the original writer
 The defense rested at this point and Miss Wood was recalled to the stand in ->~~>~---<->-e>~.>.>-