The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-11-11
FEMALE INVOLVED WITH WAR
RiNER SAYS HER STORY WILL
CREATE SENSATION.
BETRAYED BY A FRIEND
Denies She Gave Railroad Officials
Information Leading to Arrest Of
Former Big Four Treasurer at Gin
einnati-Neighbors Of DcfauIter As
sert He Is Physical Wreck.


woman mentioned in the case in con-
nection with the Warriner embezzle-
ment affair was found today. She is
Mrs. Jeanette Stewart or Ford. as
she also is known. She was dis
covered during a sensational raid on
her apartments by constables in be-
half of a department store.
Mrs. Stewart tearfully declared her
innocence of all the charges. includ-
ing blackmail. brought against her AS
result of the former Big Four
treasurer's fall. Il never blackmailed
Charles Warrincr out of a dollar, -
she sobbed.
Mrs. Stewart stated that a woman
friend in whom she had confided
was responsible for much of the no.
toriety she (Mrs. StewarD had at
tracted since the dcfalcation became
known.
This woman said Mrs. Stewart.
Il took into my flat and she occupied
II while l was out of town. | thought
she was my friend. She went to "A
department store and guaranteed my
accounts there. Now we have quar-
relied. and she has gone up there and
withdrawn her guarantee. resulting
in this suit against me.
Mrs. Stewart explained her lavish
Expenditure of money by saying that
as the daughter of Martin Timmons
OF Portsmouth. Ohio she had inherit
ed large fortune. She denied in
forming New York officials of the
Big Four shortage. blaming this also
upon her woman friend. Then she
added: II know the whole story and
will tell it i'm court. too. 1t will
make sensation
Seeking the Money.
What became of the SSi3. 900 that
Warriner admits having stolen is the
question now puZzling the railroad Of
iiciais. The stock plunging OF the
defaulting treasurer was conducted
through New York and Chicago brok-
crs, according tn his confession. but
so far investigation has failed to
trace the enormous losses he claims
To have sustained. Whether or not
Warriner is penniless. may be a uues-
ton. but neighbors at his home in
wyoming. suburb of Cincinnati. de-
clare he is a physical wreck.
1t is admitted by railroad officers
that Warriner might have continued
his depredations indefinitely if he had
not been betrayed by woman.
The railroad officials denied em-
phatically that they had grounds for
suspecting that the shortage might
go as high as 100000. and asserted
their belief that the maximum had
been reached in the sum named
$643. 900.
Mrs. Warrincr was aware of her
husbands defalcations since the time
that the first attempt was made to
levy blackmail upaa him. according to
Judge :. -. Bayless. MARINERS attor-
ney. Judge Rayless declared Warriner
had told his wife the position he was
I'm and that she had urged him to con-
fess everything.
The treasurer had convinced himself.
however, that his market speculation
would enable him to make good his
shortage and he had refused To follow
his wife's advice. Instead MIR. and Mrs.
Warriner had made trip to Chicago
and there. according To Bayless. had
had an interview with the alleged
blackmailers. at which plans were
made for future action.
In statement issued tonight Miss
Ida Brockway. who had been men
TONED by Mrs. Stewart in her inter-
view i'm the afternoon. stated that she
had never known Warriner anu never
heard of any blackmaii being levied
on him. She said. however, she was Il
Friend of the man and the two women
who have been mentioned in Warri
ners confession.