Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1908 — Once Had a Notoriety. [ARTICLE]

Once Had a Notoriety.

New York, Nov. 27.—John R. Platt, the retired glass manufacturer who four years ago vainly sued Hannah Elias in the supreme court to recover $686,386, money which he alleged he had spent on the negress since he became acquainted with her, is dead here In hie eighty-ninth year.