The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-06-12
May UNRAvEL THE
WARMER MYSTERY
Third Principal in the Cele-
brated Case Placed
on Trial Monday.
tNationaI News Association)

Cincinnati, June 12-Aftcr many
months of patient waiting the public
10 likely soon to learn the hidden
facts In the celebrated Warmer case
which cost the Big Four railroad near
ly 100000 and sent one man to the
penitentiary and woman to the mad.
house.
The man who was sent to prison is
Charles l.. Warmer. convicted of
embezzling the huge sums while act
Ing as local treasurer of the Big Four
road. The woman in the case is Mrs.
Jeanette s. Ford. who was alleged to
have blackmailed Warmer out OF
hundreds OF thousands of dollars and
who IL now confined in sanitarium.
her mind almost gone. 1t is said, as n
result OF the strain of her trial
The third principal In the celebrat-
ed case Is Edgar Street Cooke of Chi
cago, who was placed on trial here to-
day on "A charge o. embezzlement from
the Big Four. His trial. It Is believed
tails In the sordid story OF love. lust,
intrigue ana DiacKmall.
Charges Against Cooke.
From the very first 1t has been hint.
ed that the least fact of all in the
huge scandal was WARMERS $643, 900
embezzlement In WARMERS trial and
In the trial OF Mrs. Ford the name of
Edgar Street Cooke was frequently
mentioned. Warmer declared that
Cooke was the instigator and real
principal In the thefts of the railroad
c0mpany's funds. Yet months passed
before any effort was made to bring
about the arrest and trial OF the Chi.
cagoan, who affected to feel no fear
that he would ever be prosecuted on
the charges against him.
Charles l.. Warmer confessed that
his thefts from the railroad began
years ago when he was employed in
the Cleveland Office. What prompted
him to begin his stealings has never
been learned. While he lived well. his
mode OF living did not lead one to be-
lieve that he was spending more than
his salary. He was a constant attend
ant at church and SO far as has been
learned had no expensive habits.
The career of Mrs. Jeanette s.
Ford. the second principal in the case
10 less mysterious but more romantic.
She had just finished her course in
fashionable boarding school when her
father died, leaving her an orphan,
with some $4,000. She was then in
her teens. In Cincinnati she met a
man named Ford and married him.
Ford later secured a divorce.
Soon after this the woman met Ed.
gar Street Cooke. young. good looking
and prosperous. Cooke was a subord-
mate Of Warmer in the FA; Four Of
nee. There were rumors that Cooke
was short in his accounts. Later War
riner made report that Cooke was
not short and discharged him. Cooke
quit work, but continued to draw his
salary. In fact his salary was doub-
led. Following this discovery came
the alterations of blackmail plot in
which u man and a woman forced
Warmer to pay heavily or have his
own shortage made public.
Fled from Mrs. Ford.
Cooke Is alleged to have told Mrs.
Ford OF WARMERS shortage. Then he
went to Chicago to escape her. hav-
ing evidently decided to devote his at.
tcntion In future to his beautiful wife
and his two sons. Mrs. Ford was
quick to meet the crisis. She is al.
legged to have used the knowledge of
the embcxzlement to extort money
and yet more money from Warmer.
and to have employed this money in
her mad pursuit Of Cooke. She de-
manded money from one and love