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Show MRS. FORD TELLS ' OF COOKE'S THEFT CINCINNATI. June' IS. c'harlee L. Warrlner, confessed defaulter to the extent ex-tent of' $443.00. stepped from the court scene In the trial of Edgar 8. Cook here yesterday back to hi cell, and there entered en-tered Joanette Stewart Ford, once a veritable veri-table Du Bary. now a pathetic, palsied invalid. in-valid. " With quavering voice, ehaklng hand holding a handkerchief to her eyes, she admitted hiding Sli.Ooo In money for Cooke and then declared that he had told her that It had been taken from the Big Four railway. She said that aha had received re-ceived $1200 or $1600 of thla amount for herself and then, when ahown a check signed bv her and Indorsed by Cooke for tiooo. aald the former bookkeeper of the railroad had forced her to return that amount to him. In all essential detail her testimony fitted into and supplemented that of Warrlner. War-rlner. Warrlner had related that when he discovered that Cooke wa ahort. th defendant had promised to return aom of the money and had auheequently vla-Ited vla-Ited Warrlner'a home aad given htm $2000. |