Show LOVE LU yE LETTERS LETTE RS OF SENATOR S EN ATOR PLATT LATI P Miss Mae Wood Brings Suit Against Secretary Loeb Robert J Wynne and anti J Martin Miller for Destruction of Tender Missives April 9 Mae Ilae Wood late OMAHA tull filed in th the district df court a damage suit stilt against William illiam Lo Loeb b iu f to President former Postmaster V P General Gen Wynne and anil J Martin Miller who Vho she h he charges with having de zie tI 11 a number of o letters Jetters received by hy he r from Senator Platt of New York Miss Wo Vo 0 I at length the conditions that lid to time HIP souring securing the letters rs by the de and asks the court to award Aard I her l r damages do Mis Mi Mu Mme C C Wood who Is an n attorney I IW 1 Ota fO 1 practiced r li in Omaha Later she h TVIS icis W as connected ded with the po depart department ment in Washington Va and since has baH re returned returned returned turned to this city She asks dam damages ages Alleges Force and Threats Miss Wood charges charllS that the th defendants It Vv t force and threats threat secured urd from her 1 ve if I 1 which she alleges alk were writ writt of New Nt York t V n to her by h Senator Platt Piatt w ThEs letters she Che says In her charges f 1 rm l 1 the basis for the of ofa ofa a n is Ok the time for which she sh hail had hadI I and for the publication of ne sh sli had contracted with a pub isher Miss MIs lH Wood alleges allece that former Post at house In tn n nl am r Wynne Vynne met her a 1 Washington where he be detained her for forto I two to days da s and by threats threat thre tIC nd force fore took I frim fr her ier the alleged k love Iov vc letters She I Ir r Mr 11 Wynne Vynne was accompanied by tw two g men JI one oue of whom gave his nig name annie as Hummel Gist of the Charges TIme charges s as aa filed riled name U me first Robert RobertJ J 3 Wynne nn consul general to London William Loch Loeb secretary to President 1 Roosevelt J It an and l i J Martin I tr Miller UI r consul t to Aix la in Chapelle Germany alleging that the defendants had conspired to obtain of a book which she was waR com corn compiling piling under the title of The uThe Love Letters of a Boss Bogs which letters letter MISS I Wood al si alleges leges were written to her by United States Senator Thomas C Platt The petition In part vart follows fallens Second That beginning about May fay l 1 1 1903 plaintiff pl had prepared as a literary production awl And for a H II manu manuscript script entitled The uThe Love Letters Letter of Of a floss Bosa which manuscript was wat largely made ui rw from Iron actual letters received rec hd by hy b plaintiff from a very prominent man manIn manin T 1 C Platt Piatt In the United State senate of or and who pretended to bo be 71 1 years age desperately in love with the plaintiff Engagement of Easy Boss Third That plaintiff had bad been engaged to marry marl said prominent elderly man and had received attentions from him which could only be excused on the ground of such auch engagement that because of the conduct of said ail suitor the engagement encasement was WS about to be on April 15 1 1 1903 B that for the I purpose of trying to make mak an Independent i and as com corn compensation I living In a literary field an for the peculiar humiliations I i and persecutions she had bad been Teen subjected I to she determined to tn utilize such unfortunate un for Ib ith and disagreeable ex experiences t aria k r publish the said 8 hook containing t verbatim a paragraph after atler paragraph of the th silly love expressions contained In said mid letters I which were mixed with Ith political ties tip and news new SKid SaW manu manuscript also aiso he be heing ing inC ort red with an aim actual account oC of o oth the th thereto as near hear as aM it was Possible for or this plaintiff lla t to remember Plot Alleged Fourth That said defendant obtaining obtain knowledge df of intention to get out Ut such Much a book cone I a ired with ea earl li other r and d th h author th of said t original orl nat let letters letters te to get gel possession po se lon of nr the and the said S original origin ia letters by any means possible and d by illegal e fe means e Ma if ir r feces necessary sary for the th purpose of holding the same over the author and amid possibly to Lo hold for ransom In Iii addition and thus force said aid author to do or not hot to tn do certain certai things thing Fifth lo That J I Martin Marlin Miller who was In reality a detective was wa engaged by the defendants herein named mimed to represent himself to plaintiff as an aim author and publisher and solicit the manuscripts for Saul swid book together thel with a It contract to tu publish h the th sare SH E under his hl own name I through publishers or friends in Philadel Philadelphia phia That Th t this plaintiff finally consent to tn enter into a i publication contract contrat with it It the said Maid Miller for the th publication or of said hook book The Ix Love lAwe ve letters of r u H Ross Boss and surrendered the manuscript for rI said aid purpose e of publication as aforesaid afo ald and for no zio other purpose That hat the th same Miller at the time of procuring the manu inane manuscripts scripts Nt borrowed of this plaintiff 25 2 for expends while in Philadelphia to tn super intend the publication of o said id book Decoyed to New York Miss ill Wood then th n states that while hil on hr way to visit ViNit a ci k relative she was decoyed d by b Miller to Ne Nt York for the I ostensible purpose of reading proof of the story She Sh alleges that no proof was forthcoming when hen she arrived but that Miller by bv intimidation and otherwise e threatening caused her to tu Rive give up Ull for the time her pursuit for the proofs She Site says that Miller displayed a secret ret badge and demanded that she h turn over Oer letters writ ten n her h by Senator Platt and Lillian T I 1 wit Fearing earing i disgrace she h says laY both th to her family and to herself h N t Jf she went to If the New N York irk Life building ae c d by h and sial three th other gen tn and delivered the letters and other oth r papers to ii If a man His who r resented hint him self If to be Abraham If H Hummel Detained Forcibly Miss Wood recites recil threats at of ot and other actions against t her and the publisher with whom she had con to print the book and says that she was detained forcibly at a hotel for two days She says that Miller perse her during the two days das and finally forced her to sign papers which pur lur ported to be two receipts for each and attached to affidavits reciting that she would not reveal anything that had transpired and would not hot in any an vay ay communicate with the tho parties 1 to the transaction For all of which Miss I s Wood says she be has been damaged to the extent of and asks aks the court Ourt to render her a judg jud ment for that amount The charges do not specify how Ito v Secretary I l Loch and oth er r defendants are connected ted with the time ease Miss Wood In Iii a statement given out in connection with the case CIUI says Mas she l brought rought th the suit stilt in Omaha which is it the home holU of her and that she will Serve service on Secretary T Lueb when he hn returns relur front from the west Site She Sh also abs atM says that If It h he H han es his route she will bring another suit in some tf me other city ctt |