Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1911-06-14
MYSTERIOUS CASE TO
BE CALLED AGAIN.

CINCINNATI. o., June 10.-After
many months Of patient waiting the
public is likely soon TO learn the
hidden facts in the celebrated War
riner ease. which cost the Big Four
railroad nearly sli,o00.0oo and sent
one man TO the penitentihry and one
woman TO the madhouse.
The man who was sent 20 prison
is Charles l.. Warmer, convicted Of
embezzling the huge sums while act
ing ms local treasurer Of the Big -Four
road. The woman in the case is
Mrs. Jeanette 3. Ford, who was al
legged to have blackmailed Warmer
out Of hundreds Of thousands Of dol
lars and who is now confined in n
sanitarium. her mind almost gone, IL
is said, rs result Of the strain Of
her trial.
The third principal In the cele.
brnted case Is Edgar street Cooke Of
Chicago, who is to be placed on trial
here Monday on charge Of EN-
bezzlement from the Big -Four. His
trial. II IL believed, will bring 10
light all Of the hidden details In the
sordid story Of love, hst, intrigue
and blackmail.
From the very first u has beer
limited that the least fact Of all IN
the huge scandal was Warmer Z
$643, 900 embezzlement. In Warri
ner's trial and in the trial OF Mrs
Ford the name Of Edgar Street
Cooke was frequently mentioned
Warmer declared that Cooke was thu
instigator and real principal in thu
funds. Yet months passed befor'
any effort was made 20 bring abou
the arrest and trial Of the Chicagean
who affected 20 feel no fear that h
would ever be prosecuted on th
charges made against him.
Charles l.. Warmer confessed tina
his thefts from the railroad bega
years ago when he was employed b
the Cleveland office. What prompte
him to begin his stealings has nevs
been learned. while he lived wei
his mode Of living did not lead on
20 believe that he was spending NOR
than hi. salary. He was n eonstan
attendant Mt church and so far a
has been learned had no expensive
habits.
The career Of Mrs. Jeanette
Ford, the second principal in IN
case, is less mysterious but more n
mantle. She had just finished HI
course in fashionable boardin
school when her father died, leavin
her, an orphan, with some $500
She was then In her teens. In Ci
I cinnat she met man nawer Fol
: and married him. Ford later secure
divorce.
!! Soon after this the woman MI
Edgar street Cooke, young, goo
looking and prosperous. Cooke W
n subordinate of Warmer in q
Big -Four office. There were rumo
/ that Cooke was short in his account
Later Warmer made report oh
! Cooke was not short and discharg
him. Cooke quit work, but co
tinued 10 draw his salary. In Ia
has salary was doubled. Followii
this discovery came the allegatio
Of a blackmail plot in which a M
and woman forced Warmer
paw heavily or have his own shorta
made public. :.
Cooke IL alleged to have told "
Ford Of Mariners shortage. Tn
he went TO Chicago TO escape b
having evidently decided to dev'
his attention in future 20 his be,
tiful wife and his two sons. VI
n Ford was quick 20 meet the crit
, She il alleged 10 have used
knowledge of the embezzlement
extort money and get more MOI
from Warmer, and 10 have emplo,
this money in her mad pursuit
Cooke. She demanded money n
one and love from the other, aeeo
ing 20 the stories told.
N When the Cincinnati officers tn
ed to Cooke In Chicago for light
the trail of Mrs. Ford, II was \
Cooke who showed her husband
way 10 the woman's exposure.
declared that for ten years she
been fighting for her husbar
love. Then Il was that Cooke bs
Yer his breast and showed the scar
n bullet, which he declared had
~" fired st him by Mrs. Ford In
he York hotel.
Warmer has been tried and
'ne Ford has been tried and nov Go
The the third person In the myster
all ease, Is 20 stand trial. 1t Is pos
that the trial Of Cooke may solve
eA mystery Of why a man Of high st
ing in the community and trusted
i'm. his employers should steal ne
a. three quarters Of a million do
and turn the bulk OF IL over to
ms sons in whom he apparently had
'ort interest. Warmer will be bro
his down from the penitentiary In Ca
40. bus 70 tell his story in court.
~ rora aIso will be placed on the =