Show DIVORCE ST STARTED I AGAINST SENATOR Mae Wood Names 16 Re Co in Action to Punish T. T C. C Platt Kalamazoo Mich Fob Feb 27 Prom 7 Prom Promising ising to furnish one of the greatest sensations of or the decade when she sho takes the stand tan Mae Mac C. C Wood rood ha has filed med fileda a u suit for divorce orco from Crom United States Senator Thomas C. C Platt Plait of or New York She names nam's In her amended bill IG Senator Platt Piatt she ahe says j 3 has hn filed on an answer In which he dc man many of the lie charges made malle by hy her The woman further alleges that she shu has recently received a n. letter from her attorney Thomas of Richmond Va ra in which Senator Platt Plait offers to 0 make a settlement of or ortho tho the ease eatie provided it Is kept out of court In connection with this o offer I she sho says ay she has ha little desire dp to play the he angel anel case having suffered too much during during- the tIme pa past t five years at al the hands of lie tho senator Ml Miss Ibis is Wood Woo AA says she flied filed her bill Dec 27 i. i 1906 and antI she sho alleges that the senator flied his answer Jan Taim 17 17 1907 This suit bogun in New York CIl City ha has been suppressed R by hy order of the magl magistrate but the lie facts In the case are now HOW gradually I leaking out she adds acIds Miss s Wood continued It i Is true that on Doc Dec 2 27 1906 I filed flied a suit stilt for divorce dlvore from United States Stales Senator Thomas C C. Platt PiaU lie He has filed an aim answering answering- bill For details de lle- tails In the matter I prefer to lo refer leem you OU to m my attorney Thomas hits Has J t Often I r will say IY that hat Plait Platt has admitted our marriage eo over I his hits own signature during lum-Ing th hi past paRl three months month lie ITt seems to have hayl abandoned his continued policy u of silent d denunciation so long followed I T think II ho lie has been led to face race the lit situation by hy his rent recent troubles with his present wife I ur am ama now in possession of a letter from my attorney which indicates n a desire on the lie part tart of Senator Platt to settle th the tho cato case quietly anti and not have ha haIt It como to trial Would you ou suggest t. t or permit of such flueh procedure was asked I Why should I wa the lie prompt reply of Mrs 1 Platt Piatt l 1 have ha suffered too much at th the hands of this man during the lie past live years to bo ho in- in by a little mone money In iii the lie ea cave cao I J can cnn see e no Iea reason on why shy he shouldn't suffer the consequences o of his pa past t misdeeds and for that lint reason I r will take lake the thu stand sand against him When were you married to 8 Son Semi n- n ator Platt and ond where Senator Platt Piatt and I were wee married No Nov 9 1901 at the Fifth Avenue hotel lintel New York by lW Ht Rov v Edward Rice lie He was engaged by Mr Platt PIaU and I suppose was ivas a regularly nr- nr minister Whether or 01 not out our marriage license was with the lie register I cannot say cay as I 1 left all those minor matters mallel's In iii the lie hands hand of Mr MI Platt Piatt believing lie was ivas quite old uld enough mou h to tim know what hat lo to do llo it In iii such mch a i case e Mrs Mrs- Platt declined to tn lo discuss u s th the casts cas at further |