The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-12-28
WOMAN To
TRIAL FOR
EXT0R7|QN
Remarkable Cincinnati
Case Promises Develop
ment Of Big Sensations

CINCINNATI, Dec. 27.-Charged
with having received stolen money
and with blackmail, Mrs. Jeanette
Stewart-Ford will be placed on trial
tomorrow.
Charles L. Warriner, convicted
treasurer of the Big Four Railroad
company, in whose accounts there
was shortage of $643,000, is to be
the star witness. Warriner last We'd
nesday pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced to six years in the peniten-
tiary on charge of embezzlement.
He had Christmas dinner in cell in
the county jail, his entrance into the
prison at Columbus being deferred
to permit him to be used as a wit
ness in the trial of the two indict-
ments against Mrs. Stewart-Ford.
Mrs. Stewart-Ford, both individ-
ually and through her counsel, has
announced that she will fight to the
limit the indictments against her.
The mystery of how one subordi-
nate official could help himself to
over half million dollars of the
railroad company's money will prob
ably be disclosed for the first time,
but of still greater interest to the
public will be the story of intrigue,
love, and tragedy, stretching back
over ten years and said to involve
a dozen men of high standing in
business and social affairs which the
trial is expected to reveal through
evidence which will be introduced In
regard to the extraordinary career
of the woman in the case.
hA 1f t.. -.
face the judge and jury reads like a
romance romance of love and
death, intrigue, suicide and black
mail. According to his own state
ment Warriner gave the woman who
was absolutely nothing to him, sums
aggregating over 100000 to keep
quiet.
Mrs. Ford is native of Ohio ana
has passed the greater portion of her
life in Cincinnati, with occasionaf
trips to Chicago or New York for a
good time.' While she was still in
her teens her father died, leaving her
a fortune of $4,000. Her extrava-
CANT mode of living soon exhausted
the fortune. She then met BILLY
Ford" "a man well known about the
town, with whom she fell in love and
whom she claims as the father of her
child. One of the mysteries of
her life is the fact that she did not
marry Ford but did marry his broth
er, who later secured divorce from
her. Then she met Edgar S. Cooke,
a man of family, who was employed
In the Big Four offices with Warri-
ner.
Things went smoothly for a time
until Cooke desired to rid himself of
the woman. Then the trouble be-
gan. Cooke is alleged to have dis
covered that something was wrong
with WARMERS books and to have
told Mrs. Ford. According to War
riner's statements, the woman then
used her knowledge to extort money
from him, her demands increasing in
frequency and amount until the total
reached into the hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars.
Hints have been dropped that
unknown chapters of alleg-
ed theft and blackmail will be reveal
ed when Mrs. Ford is placed on the
stand. 1t has been intimated that the
woman did not act alone in her al
legged blackmailing operations, but
so far she is the only one against
whom direct charges have been
made. That the accused woman Is
holding something up her sleeve"
as she has intimated more than once
since her arrest, is believed probable
by those who have followed the case
closely. =