Show HAD BEEN CARRYING SHORTAGE FOR YEARS YEAR CINCINNATI Nov O 30 With O. With a 3 81 shortage orG e mounting hi higher as further penetration is m made mado do into the tan tangled affairs of the tho ho Di Big yo Fours Four's lr s' s financial ile lle part experts in charge charco of thc ex examination today probed into the ma mator mattor mat tor of se securities amid aud bond is issues uc which canio came tho charge chargo of Charles L Lt LI Warriner deposed treasurer who i i ia is a accused of r responsibility for a a tiou tion amounting to of or th time the I company's funds Inasmuch as the tho shortage has bas grow row in tn a few days daJ from what was supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed to bo be about to 1343 still further developments c. along this line inc would not be be astounding t to tho those e who are Ira in clo close touch with the tho irs irs' of 01 the company One NOne of the tho developments o otho of oC I tho the Warriner exposure it is hint hinted d here her is likely to br b the early earl removal remo of general ener l H Big offices offices' from fron this thin city to Chicago This chaD change e has haj been rumor rumored d fo for forsom sonic some tim time timo hilt but was denied by b railroad officials It is is' learned arn d' d today that Var riner in hi his bis statement to b his superiors told toM them th that t when whon h he camo caine herrom here her from frolD rom t the bo laud Cleveland office offic of his bis com h he brought with hint him a shortage p. p of in in his accounts at Clove Clove- His Ills downfall dot he lie dates from Crom that tha Continued on page pago l 1 r SHORTAGE S Continued from front pR page C 1 1 event having baring covered t that hat shortage e 01 only Y to to fall fal into o ho hc clutches of theman tho the thoman thoman man who ho ho lie alleges ts has blackmailed him lim ever or c since This shortage o continued con continued con con- tinned to grow row till WI it was a swe swelled swelled led to b before ho realized his tion rca From Prom a high official source t it js is s learned earned that the first intimation of the impending scandal in the tho office of time the local ocal treasurer of tho the Big B Four came through a Chicago o woman who ho it is alleged had been sharing in il the tlC spoils and whoso hose income had been shut of off At first the of M f the timo woman was not credited el and J E E. Ingalls In In- galls alls chairman of the thip Bi Big Your Pour said today oday that at for fr several sc days daj's it was wasal al almost almost al- al most impossible to believe anything wrong ron with wih notwithstanding ing inga a hasty examination 1 by some of the higher officials of C th tho company brought to light tho the fir first t facts of the thc shortage e. e Woman in tho the Case Through tho fl taking in out of atta attach attach- h. h meat papers paper to recover er ocr ocr- lain nin goods sold to her by a department store storo in this city eity tho time woman omun men men- tinned by Warriner as one ona of his lila nl- nl lc cd blackmailers was d discovered isco in inan inan inan an u apartment house hero to today ay Tho woman is well known here and andin andin in iii in Chicago wh where ro- ro she lic figured in a a. number of oE a affairs fai s. s She bo has been a n volunteer r prisoner or sinco since tl tim the cle developments develop elop ments iu in the BI Big Four shortage horta e. e While in Chicago Chia o sIte she was a 3 defendant defendant defend defend- ant in a n prosecution in in which site sho was i as charged ed with having attempted to shoot a man man tho latter later being al also o named 1 by in connection with wih tho ho the alleged bla blackmail i Detectives discovered i co t that a large e amount of mail was 31 awaiting this worn worn- an in at at 3 a leading hotel which she sho ho han had left eft lef some sonic tiD time ago ao without giving iu an any address It I was stated also alo that sho h had d at t tho hotel a n largo large larso amount of oC money It I is is known that there thre will JI bo VO an any effort fort to toas as ascertain n tho source of this money M. M U. U I Ingalls Ingalis and others other loda today emphatically em em- absolved abSOlVe Frank Comstock Warriner's predecessor or of any responsibility for the tho shortage ta c |