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Show COOKE on STAND III OWN BEHALF eseeesnpnnnee,nnnnesn Endearors to Refute Damaging Dam-aging Accusations of War. liner and Mrs. Ford., CINCINNATI, -'June Bdarar 8. Cook, aecuead .'of embessllng 14.0 from H Bis Four Railway company, took ttia land In bla awn bahalf today to refute tha aocuaatloaa burled at hhn by Charlea L. Warrlner. defaulting treasurer treas-urer of the road, and Mn. - Jeannerte Stewart Ferd. . The beginning of the defence de-fence marked the eecoad etage to the sensational trial. Pravloua to ;th appeerenee of Cooke another woman had come forward -m the case, and In the llsht of testimony aha appeared aa on who had devoted her lite to but eae thought revenge. : Ufa Devoted to Barvenc. Mrs.- Mettle MrDennott of Morrow, O.. waa thla wltneee. She boaatad that through her efforts Prank M. Couden of Warren county loot hla poaltlon aa caah-ler caah-ler In the office of the collector of general gen-eral ruatoma In' Cincinnati. Couden. It la claimed, drat Informed the Bis Four meneaemont of the Warrlner ahorta. bavins rained the Information from a atenoarmpner la the aorernment office who . wea a etoeo friend of Mra. Ford. Couden. rears aero, ahot and hilled Mr. McDermott'a eon. Ha waa tried and acquitted on grounda of aetf defanae, but alnce than aha haa never loot an opportunity op-portunity to avenc hereelf on Couden. Aaked the motive for her teetlmonr to- aay in tooae a. neoaii,, wn had told her: . . -If yoa kelp me., ril kelp you with Coudea." Mrs. Tord Called Oooka Honest. Mrs. MeDermott swore that ,he vl,lted at re. - Ford at tha hoepttai laat Friday and that the women who on Wednee-day Wednee-day declared that Cooke had siren her I21.OO0. "taken from the Bis Four, told her vlattore thaf "as far aa the hoaeety of Mr Cooke waa concerned ahe couldn t awear that Cooke had ever atolen II." Frank Hlsalru of the eudltlns department depart-ment of the Big Four'waa the laat atate wltneae today. He save a summary ef hla Inveetlsatlona resardlnc the Warrlner Warrl-ner ehortas. He placed It at M.oo. a refutation of the atatement of Attorney Baker that "men hlsher up" had abstracted ab-stracted 1 3. 000, (to, from the road. The defenae opened with half a dosen character wltneaaea from Cooke'a old home In a Cincinnati auburn. Then came Mrs. MeDermott and then Cooke hlmaelf. |