Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-19

The writer told Miss Wood not to
worry about his children as they are
all taken care of and that he can do
as he pleases Another clause in the
letter was Il send you a thousand
kisses for the one you sent me-"
In this letter also the senator is al
legged to have said that Frank Plat,
his son, was in receipt of an income of
$100, 900 per year and that Harry. the
other son had married a rich wife and
was in other ways we'll fixed financial
ly.
a picture of the senator, on the back
of which was written ITO my little
wife, was offered in evidence.
How was that written?" asked
Miss Woods counsel.
"Well ! was sitting on his lap. Part
OF the time held his hand. We wrote
it together The words little wife were
written by him. l think"
Senator Plat was not in court
On REORGANIZATION, Miss Wood
said she is AZ years old, was born in
Michigan, has been married and di-
Vorced, and has been a newspaper re-
porter, q school teacher and law
yer. She did newspaper work in Omaha
and was admitted to the bar in Ne
braska, she said. Going over her re-
lations with Senator Platt, she said
that she and the senator had trouble
at one time but that it was patched
up in April, 1905, and she wrote him.
She last saw the senator to speak to
him on Aug. Is, 1903. On further cross
examination counsel for Senator Platt
produced a number of letters alleged
to have been written to Miss Wood by
the senator. In one of these letters,
the senator asks Miss Wood why she
does not marry Mr. Middleton" and
says he would like to see her mar
ried before he "cashs in" In another
er letter the senator takes Miss Wood
to task for writing about "Old Jane
way" tells her that he knows all
about Mrs. Janeway: that Miss Wood
is entirely wrong and concludes: II
have no intention of marrying Mrs.
Janeway or any other woman" Miss
Wood denied that she ever retained
O'Flaherty and Fulton of Richmond,
Va. to prepare q case against Senator
Platt, but said she met them in this
city and talked about the case. There
upon Senator Platt's counsel read a
letter from the lawyers to the senator
in which they declare that they were
employed by Miss Wood relative to
action against the senator.
1.-The matter grows out of a promise
of marriage made by you to her and
broken as shown by your subsequent
marriage to another person. says the
| letter.
| The defence also submitted a copy
of the legal petition in the district
court of Douglas county. Nebraska.
entitled MAE c. Wood VS.. Robert j.
Wynne, William Lobe and ]. Martin
Miller, defendants" On that occasion,
Miss Wood in her cause of action al
legged "that between Jan. 1 and Oct. II,
1903, defendants conspired among
themselves and with other persons un-
known to this plaintiff to do all the
things alleged to have been done by
any one of the defendants" Miss Wood
| sought to recover $4,000 from the de-
PENDANTS on the ground that through
conspiracy they obtained from her a
large number of letters which she had
received from Senator Plat and that
she proposed to incorporate in a book
which she had planned to issue under
| the title 1.-The Love Letters of a Boss. -
| Miss Wood was led to tell Of her
visit here on Oct. II, 1903, just before
Senator Platt married Mrs. Janeway
She was asked il she knew that the
senator was to be married. She said
she knew it through the newspapers
some months before, but always said
that the senator would not marry Mrs
Janeway. She brought the senator's
letters with her She was met at tbs
hotel she said, by J. Martin Miller,
secret service man. who she said
practically put her under arrest.
Miller, she said, took her down tt
the office Of A. H. Hummel, the at
torney, the following day. AS a re-
!. suit Of visits to HummeTs Office, esh'
said, she was compelled to give up thu
letters and papers relating to Senato
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