Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1908-05-28
in PLATT'S favor
SENSATIONAL END or MAE
WOODS DIVORCE SUIT IN
NEW YORK.
PLAINTIFF SENT 70 PRISON
Justice o'0orman pIsnisses Complaint
and Orders Miss Wood Held
In 5000 Bond on Per-
Jury Charge.

New York, May 22.-Mae Y. Wood
whose suit for an absolute divorce
from United States Senator Thomas
G. Platt Of New York has been on trial
in the supreme court here for several
days, was committed to the Tombs
prison late Thursday after Justice
O'Gorman had dismissed the complaint
in her action and ordered her held IN
$1,000 ball on q charge Of perjury.
The decision in Senator Platt's favor
and the sudden and sensational end.
ing Of the suit came after day which
the defense occupied largely with the
Introduction Of expert and other ties
timony attacking, the authenticity Of
the documents by which the plaintifI
was seeking to establish her alleged
marriage to Senator Plat. A hand
writing expert testified that In his
opinion the body OF the letter, In
which Senator Plat was alleged to
have admitted HIS relation as husband
to the plaintiff was added after the
senator's signature had been affixed
More telling still for the defense was
the dispositions by engravers and
stationers called by counsel for Sen
ator Plat that the blank form upon
which the alleged Platt-Wood mar
riage certificate was prepared, was no.
autographed until three months after
the date upon which the marriage
Miss Wood to Senator Plat was al
legged to have taken place. Miss Wood
was recalled to the stand In rebuttal
She was asked IT, after hearing the
testimony about the marriage certifi.
cate, she still reiterated that the de-
PENDANT gave her the certificate as she
previously testified.
II still reiterate It," sne replied.
Justice O'Gorman turned to Miss
Wood ard pointedly questioned her.
She repeated her assertion that the
marriage occurred as she had stated.
She admitted that Senator Plat never
supported her, and when asked by the
court II she did not consider 1t the
duty'of husband to support his wife,
she replied:
Il do, but as long as he was not
enough Of a gentleman to do SO /
never asked him to-"
Senator Platt's counsel then moved
for dismissal of the complaint. 1t
was forthwith granted by Justice
O'Gorman. who, in rendering his de.
cision, said: -
Il can not credit the plaintiffs evi.
dence as to the alleged marriage, and
the testimony as 1t inipresses the
court is that this is q most wicked
design to support false and fictitious
claim by forgery and perjury"
Forthwith Justice O'Gorman ordered
Miss Wood committed to the Tombs
on the charge Of perjury, fixing her
bail at $4,000.
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, and by the
time she reached the city prison, had
resumed the air Of confidence which |
she held practically throughout the
trial. a'4 9c
At the district attorneys once |
Thursday night, 1t was said that Miss
Woods case would speedily be pre-
sented to the grand Jury and pressed |
for trial II an indictment was found. |
AT a late hour Miss Wood had not |
been able to furnish the bail demand. |
ed In her case, and was still locked |
up in the Tombs.