New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-16
MRS. FORD FACES WIFE
CIasping Cookies Child, COL
IapSeS at Cincinnati Trial.
JUDGE AND JURY IN TEARS
Woman in the Case" May Die
Mrs. Cooke Winces When She
Hears What 20. H." Meant.

| Cincinnati June -. 49, Mrs Jeanette
Stewart Ford is I'm hospital, where she
may not recover from the ordeal OF her
cross examination to-day in the trial OF
Edgar 8. Cooke. accused Of embezzllng
500 600 from the Cleveland Cincinnati chi
cago & St Louis Railway
Forced 10 bare her past In the hearing
OF Mrs Cooke to the most minute detail
the woman who helped lead Cook Warmer
and other Big Four employees astray col
lapscd when. clssping her six-year-oid
, daughter in her arms. she declared that
! tho child's father was Cooke.
Two incidents stirred the spectators at
( the trial to-day. The second brought tears
/ from Judge jury, attorneys and spectators.
The first aroused the curiosity Of all who
saw.
/ Mrs Ford. on the stand for cross-eXanl-
nation. and Mrs Edgar s Cooke. VIE OF
/ the defendant, formed the personnel or me
| FIRST incident. When the matrony looking
woman who has stood by Cooke through
al his troubles took seat ar his side TO-
DAY there was a murmur Of expectancy
/ intensified when Mrs. Ford's invalid chair
was wheeled in front of the jury
/ II was the first time Nv years that the
/ "eterna triangle" had been completed N
/ Cookies case. but an concerned kept their
/ impulses under control and there wac no
/ indication on the Vife's countenance that
she felt anything bat pit for the other
woman
The second stirring scene was preceded
/ by the entrance Of Mrs. Fords daughter
aged six The child ran TO her mother just
as the latter said There is my daughter
/ Jcannetto. ard she is Cookies child,
The witness burst into sobs as she made
/ this confession and tears rolled down the
! faces Of iurvmen and spectators. Even the
attorneys for the prosecution and the judge
( on the bench showed their feelings. ana
+ newspaper writer's watched the shaking
palvied woman and sobblng child through
eyes blurred with tears.
The childs entrance was preceded by the
/ Introduction OF letter from Mrs. Ford 10
/ Cooke. In which she asked him to WISH
her at the hospital or at least send her
some money. and to provide Tor their
So shaken was Mrs Ford by the incident
that she was removed from the room, ana
after an interval her physician tod ,I"
court that she could not stand the nrueal
OF further questioning. She is IN nospl-
/ tai tonight. Court then adjourned uhui
+ afternoon.
The differentiation Of rhe woman was
! r,erciIees throughout Under the FIRE or
questions size admitted having shot and
wounded Cooke. Of having had him ar
/ rested for assault IN 'nicaso ana later luz
/ nou-support Of thoir child.
Letters that had passed between the ~
were read and then il was Mrs Cooke $
turn 20 vince. for I'm many ~ them her
} husband mad referred 90 her rs 20. ~.
which Mrs Ford testified meant "Old
/ Hag" 90.
There vas another aSonizinE moment FOR
the wife whom the woman m the Wneel
. hair declared that Cooke had taken her
A. New york after promising 10 marry
her This brought q suppressed eTciama =
/ ton from Mrs. Cooke. and as Mrs. Ford
P toId freely of her relations with cooke the
,yifo'e first glances Of pity for the woman
turned % flashes Of scorn and anger.
THE ordeal may prove fatal 20 Mrs Ford.
/ her phyeician said after he returned the
woman to the hospital. whore she has been
FOR q year