Show OLD TOM TOLl PLOT PLATT ISSUED ISSUED IS ISSUED SUED FOR Love Letters Produced By Mae MaeWood Wood in New York Co Court u rt THE MARRIAGE IS DENIED i Interesting Missives Throw Po Political Political Po- Po Sidelights on the I Aged Senator r. r 4 S Now ow York May Maj la IS lt It It is dread dread- ful to contemplate the fact that I am urn S. S r 70 years ears old pathetically wrote United States Senator Thomas C. C Platt PlattIn In one pf of or his alleged love lo letters to Mae Mac C. C Coo Wood oo which were ero read today toda j to Justice OGorman O'Gorman in the Supreme court where Mrs Woods Wood's divorce orce acS action ac ac- ac- ac S tion against the s senator was finally S brought for tor trial S Think of oZ it It old old Platt no now 11 he lie I 1 S wrote with with tragic simplicity You S had better dIscard me inc at once before beCore i I die le I am am an oJ old fool tool he lie exclaimed in k another wIth frank Introspection Introspect Ioni Ion k i My little to bride H was the thu sam salti- r r. he hO is alleged to have hn used in instill 5 still another and in yet et one moro mora burning lovo love message this distin- distin S i g member of ot the greatest body In InS In'S Inthe S 'S the world worl with apparent deliberation S sent ent the tho lad lady a J thousand thouron kisses for forthe the one you ou sent me an and l a thousand times as fervent i. i Mrs 1 Wood Woo says sars that Senator Platt i i. i married marrIe her In 1901 and in her action for tor divorce names as respondent co-respondent k the Mrs r Janeway Jane whom two years ears I later Mr Mi Platt admittedly l married but vho who has since left him because of certain scandalous revelations Th The f senator denies the Wood Woo marriage am and with the issue thus Joined the public i Is getting setting the published chapters of tho the love Jo affairs of a statesman which vie in interest with Balzac's Imaginative tOlY of ot How Old Men Ien Love In a letter addressed to Mv My dear little one Mr Mi Platt avows S th that t her previous communication was so brIght an and cheered him so DO that Jam Iani almost almos S. S reconciled to Odell's election Provision Pro for The Tho ono one which will bo be rca read with greatest interest by the tho people eople of at New York 1011 Is a letter Jn in which tho the senator tells teUs of the pro J provision Ion ho made for tor his family My 1 dear little is one 8 assured as as- suz-cd suz that sho need not worry about 11 lier r children un who have been provided pro I tor as witness For many years year Peal 5 CJ- CJ Zor 1 S rr a a oo o l t W f-W l nl y R lf M l 1 ari hla company k C 1 C f 1 foni t 1 g of N New w York state canal fut some which I control and Jf It 1 i am re elected as ns I now Intend In- In tend to be bc this will wiH still bo be un under cr m my I 1 control Edward Edvard E w rd he lie says finally Is talen talen taken tal- tal en care of or on the United States E Ex Express press payroll Whether IH ther or not the senator married 5 Mrs Irs Wood Justice OGorman will wm decide c after atter hearing healing the evidence ence for tor this is not a Jury jUly case Just now Mrs Irs wood is the chief figure of interest and aa as a the only on witness yet et called she sho I occupied the center of tho the stage all L day toda today She is a matronly looking in woman 45 j years cats cars old well preserved with black hair hall blue eyes ces a snub noseS noso nose S and a mouth that shuts huts firmly over overS S 1 perfect teeth Mrs Wood on tho Stand c 1 Begun a year ear ago aso the lie action dragged rame S along until today when it ft finally came earn cameto 5 5 to trial As her own chief witness Mrs hS Wood was called to tho stand stan this morning morningS S 5 aR soon as the proceedings were under underway underway wa way and her appearance there opened the floodgates for the outpouring of ot S r. r the sentimental reveries lo of or a a. senator First came caine the letter In Mr 11 1 Platt latt li II Is alleged to have ha made tho the arS arrangements arrangements ar ar- ar- ar S for the wc wedding which Mrs Wood rays occurred at the Fifth Firth S Avenue hotel on November 29 9 1901 S j It Jt is to bo lie understood that Mrs MiSs Wood m alleges that through u n conspiracy In InI which former Postmaster General I Wynne rynne William Loeb jr secretary to the President ent A Abe e Hummel a secret secretS S j service man all of the lie letters and documents doe doc oc- oc I bearing upon her case were tal taken n from her October 13 in Hummell's ollice Tho rho letters which S she sho submits therefore are arc substantial copl copies s. s On November ember 8 S 1901 then S she received recel from Platt the following l for to I I have made madeS My u hue all arrangements You are arc not to say I S S anything to anybody nor do O anything S but hut obe obey Implicitly my instructions S You are to be here hore at J 4 o'clock sharp I enclose a card for you ou to give I e to the theS S hotel clerk cleric who will look after you and show you to room HiS You need not register J I will care for tor you OU when everything Is ready as per card carll enclosed Please do not keep us wailin waiting I am nm an old shall never regret theS the tho fool but you jou ou S step for Cor you be free as you ou die are until the proper time limo Believe me mc lovingly Tom Tom S Telling th the history of th their lr courtShip court court- ship Mrs l Wood sai said she had first met I I Mr Ir Platt Piatt in April 1901 and after aner I that frequently saw sav him bun at the tile First Avenue hotel an and at his office omco In Broadway I 1 told him that he did ld not know anything about me said Mrs l r Wood od and ho he replied Yes I do I have inquired Inquire about you OU and know all about your our life lire at Omaha an and elsewhere On the stipulated day ay she wont vont to the room designated b by Platt and awaited developments Shortly there came a 0 knock at the door and openIng open open- Ins Ing it she shu met the senator and two m menI men nI n. n I I knew baby you ou would not dis disappoint disappoint dis- dis ls- ls appoint me inc cried the senator as he lie warmly embraced the la lady One of the thc men said mid Do you rou take this man to be your you husband I said ald Yes an arid and he lie asked Senator Platt Do you take this woman to bo ho o your wife an and he sal said Yes II Was Mr 11 Plait PiaU holding your hand at the time lIe He was Then accor according to the witness Platt placed a ring on her finger Rev Edward Edwal d Rico was said to have been the offIciating clergyman The two men inca Immediately after the ceremony left Then sho shio entered the thc senators senator's room an and was sitting on a sofa when h lie he handed her tho the with th the remark Here nere is something for tor you jou ou baby People would call me rae a fool he lie said an and it might with m mj my senatorial candidacy an Subsequently Mrs Mra Wood sal said sh she lived with the senator both in WashIngton Washington Wash Wash- ington ton and New York and had re received re re- many letters Jetters from him most of which had been taken from her by Hummell and the others named In the conspiracy Le Barbler thereupon produced produced pro pro- 10 uce copies of at the letters and ono one by byone byone byone one th they were rea read Into the tho evidence I I I tin un iap Two 0 OLD TOM PLATT SUED FOR DIVORCE Continued from flom la Page c One Up Ull to this point Mrs Mis had hat Kid hall fair tall sailing A pl picture lure showing Platt seated at hl his de desk k amon and am andon andon on Its ItH back the tile inscription For m mittle my little ittle wife wiCe r T. C C. P P. I was as sitting sHUn on his lap she tle led l L and an he lie guided gulde my hand while 1 I wrote It Then rhen el took hold of ot the witness for cro examination cross and covered cur cov ered h her r with confusion with o almost t he tle first l question by handing her for foi examination a bundle of or letters s. hero Cru did you get these s she ho demanded Never ocr mind said That will develop later And Amid ho imo read rend into the tile evidence i after s she he had hud acknowledged e tho tim re receipt re- re I of or It this tills lett letter r written In 1903 several months the alleged matrI mat mar rI lage l I am tun pleased with your letter of Y yesterday Your Yom letters lettel's rend read like lIIa boos books I J 1 am overwhelmed to lo receive i them them hem but hut it is dreadful to contemplate contemplate plate tho thu fact that I am 70 0 years old Your telegram from flom Atlantic City was the he first t 1 had with assurance of or m my icing being an old man mIlan Think of it old it-old old Platt latt now You lint had belt better r discard me before I die 1 would like to s sec eo ec you ou ned mat to Mr 11 Middlebrook or some other goo good fellow lIo before I pass in m my checks Why hy dont don't you d do It They or oh- he ho would not bore you ou to death after your our I received the red dragon f seltzer Have lIne not hot tried It yet et soon Yours sincerely THOMAS C. C PLATT Mr Ml haJ WOOd rood fenced fence cleverly with a all through sh her examination examina examIna- tion telling him of the conspiracy by y which she was taken to Hummers Hummels office of of- I flee fice where the she gave up tho the Platt letters letters let let- i tors and signed a release un under tinder cr duress as us she claimed She Site admitted that she sho received receIve money at that time from rom Hummel but she did not rIOt say how hov much Near Xeal the tue close of tho the forced force her Into a position in which site bhe gave o a tc testimony almost as damaging gln to her cause as the letter which Plait wrote her advising her to marl marry I |