Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-06-15 | Page 7 | Dramatic Scene in Court Room

DRAMATIC SCENE IN COURT ROOM I Cincinnati, Juno 15. Two Incidents H today stirred tho cniotlons of the H spectators at tho trial of Edgar S. H Cooko, charged with embezzling $21,- j H 000 from tho Big Four railroad. I H Mrs. Jeannotto Stewart Ford, on tho J H stand for cross-examination, aud Mrs VH ldgar S. Cooke, wife of the defendant, tH wero tho central figures of the first H incident. When Mrs. Cooke, who has H steadfastly stood by her husband, look H a seat at his sldo today thero was a H murmur of expectancy Intensified H when Mrs. Ford's invalid chair was H wheeled In front of tho Jury, but there jH was no indication on the wife's coun- H tenanco that fiho felt anything but H pity for the 'other woman. M Tho second Incident was prccipltat- H cd by the entrance of Mrs. Ford's H daughter, nged four. The child ran H to her mother just as tho latter said. H "There Is my daughter Jeanncttc, H 'and sho Is Cooke's child." "H Tho witness burst Into sobs as sho H mado this confession and tears H streamed down tho faces of the Jury- M men and spectators. M So shaken was Mrs. Ford by the In- fl cldont that she was romoved from tho fl , room. Her physician said she could "H not stand further questioning and jH court adjourned. H Under cross-examination. Mrs. Ford admitted having shot nnd wounded H Cooke, of hnving had him arrested for M assault In Chlcaso and later for non- "H support of their child. "" letters that had passed between the l two were rend. ' In many of them H Cooko referred to his wife as an 'old H