Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-28
WOMAN WITNESS DISAPPEARS
WANTED BY BOTH SIDES IN
WARRINER CASE.
stenographer in Surveyors Office
Quits Cincinnati Without Leav-
ing Word as to Destination.

Special Dispatch to The Star
CINCINNATI, Ohio, November oI.-Miss
Ida K. Brockway, stenographer in the Of
nee OF the surveyor of customs Of Cincin-
matt and holding a federal position paying
$l,o0o, is missing. She is badly wanted
here by both sides in the prosecution
which will be the result of the exposure
of Charles L. Warriner, former treasurer
of the Big Four. who took sums amount
ing to S6i3, 600 from his office.
When Informed this morning that Miss
Brockway had fled Prosecuting Attorney
Hunt said that his side had lost a very
valuable witness in her disappearance
Attorney Thorndyke, for Mrs. Stewart
charged with being one of Mariners
blackmallers, said the same. Miss Brock
way, IL was learned tonight, has gone to
the home of relatives in New York city
though it took three days of detective
work by newspaper men to learn this
She disappeared Wednesday of this week
From that time on efforts have been made
by the corresp ondents to locate her. They
learned tonight that she is in New York
and that two of her very dear friends are
living in that city. One Is Jack Howe,
who has been said to be the sweetheart
Of Miss Brockway. Mr.. Howe owns three
or four hat stores i'm New York and is
said to be comfortably wealthy. The
other is Mrs. Betty Fisher, a sister of
Miss Brockway. but whose address could
not be learned tonight Miss Brockway
left Cincinnati without telling anybody
where she was going, saying, Il am going
away, but L don't know where"
she had been called To the office OF
Prosecutor Hunt Tuesday of this week
and listened to some very pertinent ques-
tons. Whether or not she answered them
Prosecutor Hunt will not say. At any
rate, on the following day she went to
the cashier of the surveyor of customs
office and asked for d leave of absence
or one month. This was not given her
Then she turned around and went out
That night she had her trunk shipped to
the station and left on late train for
New York.
Prosecutor Hunt says that the lack of
her evidence will seriously hurt his side
of the case. Mrs. Stewart, the woman
in the case, says that Miss Brockway,
who is her cousin, went because she
knew she was to be arrested Mrs. Stew
art further says that Miss Brockway
knows more of the shortages of Warri-
ner than anybody else, and that If she
were here that she tMrs. StewarD would
be acquitted III fifteen minutes. Prose-
cutor Hunt is authority for the fact that
he has received valuable evidence in the
form of letters to Warmer from that
man, who is held in the county jail.
These letters are said to have come from
Mrs. Stewart and Edgar S. Cook and to
have in them evidence that both Cook
and Mrs. Stewart were taking money
from Warmer fast as they could
get it.
MIS-. Stewart remains as silent as she
always has. only saying to newspaper
men that they must wait for the trial to
hear her bombshell.
The fact that Miss Brockway went
away Wednesday without permission has
been reported to the Secretary of the
Treasury's office in Washington.