The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-04
MARINER CASE PROBED
GRAND JURY INVESTIGATES
 TREAsURER's CASE.
Appearance of Chfcago Man h Clncin- nati Gives' Color ts story of
 Immense Shortage In
 Haflread Accounts.

Cincinnati. Dec s-The grandf jury today took up the latest developments In the case of Charles L. warriner. defaulting treasurer of the Big Four Railroad. Frank M. couden. cashier in the United States customs office. who by his own admission. revealed the secret of the shortage to the com pany fin transaction" ten years after he became coenizant of 1t and q few weeks after Ida Brockway. his stenographer. and Mrs. Jeanette Stew art-Ford quarreled, was before the jury on call of the prosecutor. to tell all he knew about the case. Hun dreds of letters from Mrs. Ford and warriner, covering a dozen years of remarkable relationship. was submit- ted to the jury.
 The Big Four. according to semi official announcement, Is trying to find out if the ssf5.ooo not accounteI ] for sby Warrfner in his exposure of the stolen se4s.eoo Ia really hidden somewhere.
 It Is believed other indictments will follow.
 Recommendation for Miss Brock ways dismissal from her customs position has been sent to Washington.
 Charles L. Warrioer, according to developments today, was compelled to make a cash settlement of $25.000 in one lump to escape being held in the clutches of certain blackmailers for seventeen wears to come.
 Prosecutor Hunt has in his posses sion 250 demand notes for s100 each, which are alleged to have been pre- sented by a woman to Warriner for immediate signature on September 2s. 1s05.' These notes bear dates from September 26. 1905. to August 21. 1922. The notes are said to be part of . scheme of blackmaii by which Warri- ner was to have been held in financial bondage as 1t were. for seventeen years. .s,.s.
 But warriner baked on discounting the future, 1t is said, and paid the en- tire &25,000 at once instead of paying that amount in $1oo tnstallments. War rIner is reported to have told the pros ecutor that he sent the unsigned notes to a man fin Chicago. with written explanation of why he had not attach- ed his signature.
 warriner's refusal to sign the notes did not free him from the grip of the blackmailers as he later was com- pelled to pay various sums ranging from S2sG hotel bills to s1.000 for ex- penses for the benefit of woman.
 Miss Ida Brockaway. missing ste- nographer from the United States coll lector of customs office. will appear be- fore the grand jury next Monday or Tuesday. An attorney has given this assurance to Prosecutor Hunt. Since she fled on November IT, her where abouts have been unknown until de- tective agency located her last night. It is believed she went to Chicago and New York to confer with certain in- terested persons.
 While Couden was closeted with the grand jury today 1t was reported that Edgar $. Cooke the Chicago man who supplied the letters. of Mrs. Jeanette Stewart Ford to the prosecutor, accord Ing to the lstter's declaration. had again appeared in Cincinnati. This re- port was at first discredited but was corfirmed tonight by the testimony of man who has known Cooke for f1f- teen years. and who saw him leaving the railroad depot.
 What Cooke's reappearance here within few days and what his oon- ferences with the imprisoned warri- rer mean are matters of conjecture.
 In the meantime rurnor Is being fed assiduously by the attorneys for Mrs. Ford. They insist that when the whole ruth ofs the def faicatinn Is. known, men of his position in the railroad world other than those who are under suspicion will be implicated and they also as- serted that the real shortage will be found to be many times in excess of the s643,000 which has been named in Warriner's confession.