The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-06
MRS. CHADWICK IS
 AN ADVENTURES Has Been Well Known in GIeve-
 land for Years FASCINATED ALL THE MEN Without Education or Beauty She Has Succeeded In Borrowing Enormous
 Sums of Money-served
 Term In Prison.
FASCINATED ALL TIE MEN

New York, December 5.-(special)- dispatch from Cleveland, O., to the World says:
 That a woman of lowly origin, with none of the advantages that persons of even ordinary circumstances are able to give their children in the way of edu- cation and refined surroundings, should at the age of forty-seven be able to astound every city in America and even set tongues a-wagging in Europe by her ability to raise stupendous sums or money on nothing much more substan- tial than her bare word seems almost beyond belief. Yet that is what Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick, known also as Eliz- abeth Bigley, Alice Bestedo, Mime. La Rose, Mme De We're and Mrs. Spring steen, has done.
 These facts would be amazing enough in themselves if the woman had in her youth given indications of exceptional brilliancy, or had she in her prime been possessed of great beauty to charm men. But that a woman whose youth was clouded by squalor and poverty and whose early womanhood was spent In prison for the crime of forgery should do all this and in the end come out scot-free amazes and astounds.
 Her checkered Career.
 Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick was born in Eastwood, Ontario about the year 1857, one of eight children of Daniel and Mary Ann Bigley. In 1879, at Woodstock, Ont, on the ground that she was insane, she was acquitted of the charge of forgery She appeared in Cleveland about 1882, and had various experiences with money lenders under the names of Bigley and Mrs Alice Bestedo. On October 21 of that year she married a Dr.w. S. Springsteen. They had not been mar ried a month before certain of her do- ings became known to her husband and she was forced to leave his house. In 1883 Dr. Springsteen divorced her. Three years later she again turned up in Cleveland as Mrs. Scott" and lived in boarding house kept by Mrs. Hoover, at No. 122 Euclid avenue. In 1890 she, with an express agent, Joseph Lamb, was arrested in Toledo on the charge of obtaining S1S,00O by forgery. On the plea that Lamb was simply her dupe she was acquitted but she was convicted ana sentenced LD lfle 0OluIHDlS peullen- tiary for nine years and six months. Governor Mckinley released her on pa- role in 1893.
 In the following year she again ap- peared in Cleveland this time as Mrs. Hoover having borrowed the name of the boarding house keeper with whom she formerly lived. In 1S9i, still under the name of Hoover, she wormed her way Into the affections of Dr. Leroy S. Chad wick of Cleveland, of a very old and respectable family, and he married her. 1t was not long before her husband and his daughter by a former marriage were forced by her cratic conduct to leave the home of his birth and seek oblivion in foreign land
 Her Identity Long Known.
 Despite the fact that all these things have only just now been made public, the woman's identity with the former convict, Mme De We're, has been known to hundreds of Clevelanders for good many years, and despite the fact that she has time and time again been con- fronted with this dark spot in her career by dozens of Cleveland lawyers, and that many times she has been, forced to disgorge large sums of borrowed money through threats of exposure, yet up to the very last moment she has persist
 
 There is scarcely a lawyer, banker or business man of any prominence in this city who is not more or less acquainted with her life's history; yet 1t is almost impossible to get anyone to speak of her or her affairs or to acknowledge that they have in any way been connected with her. They are almost all willing to tell what they known in confidence. but they exact a solemn pledge that their ac hall f,nf raUaa1ad
 A Cleveland attorney who represented several money-lenders in suits against her as early as 1882, tells this story of her career, and there are any number of others who will back 1t up:
 T first knew Mrs. Chadwick under the name of 'Bigley.' She was then liv- ing on Superior street. and claimed to be sister of Mrs. York She had a mania then for raising large sums of money, and would in almost every case pledge her sisters furniture. She used various names at this time, among them being Alice M Bestedo.' She very soon got into trouble with Mrs. York, and moved away from her neighborhood Then she met Dr. Wallace s. Springsteen and aroused his sympathy with tales of her troubles, at the same time representing that she was heir to a great deal of property in Canada, They were married by Justice of the Peace Babcock on November 21, 1889. but trouble began in less than a month and they separated. In December 1882 Dr. Springsteen began suit for divorce and secured It the fol- lowing October.
 Regarded as Dangerous.
 "The next heard of the woman was when, under the name of La Rose she practiced in this city as a clairvoyant She came back here in 1886 and lived under the name of Scott with Mrs Hoover, and then followed her convic- tion for forgery in Toledo under the name of Madam De Were After her release from the penitentiary she reap peared here as Mrs. Hoover. an. in 1897 was married to Dr. Chadwick.
 Tt has been common knowledge