The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-12-23
KIMBALI. SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER q. 1904
MRS. CASSIE L. CHADWICK
Career of an Ohio Woman That Rivals the Wild
est Stories Told in Fiction

old in Fiction
fl5, ,000, 900 of her securities, she had
no trouble in borrowing immense
sums OF money, and as the loans be-
came due She met them by borrowing
from others. Her operations were the
more easy because of the big inter-
est and bonns She paid for the accom-
modation." One Of Mrs Ckadwick's
largest operations was with the Citi-
Zen's National bank of Oberlin. She
hit this bank for 100000 at one wback
by a nicely constructed story to the
effect that she was going to make the
bank trustee of her entire state as
soon as certain matters could be
Strengthened up. For this service Sic
would pay President Bcckwith $4,000
Il Year salary and the cashier the same
and when the sl9O.OO0 was paid give
the bank Il present of $4,000 bonus.
Beckwith at once communicated ]
with Reynolds and from him learned
that he was holding Sl5,00O,OOO in Sc
curties and without hesitation let her
have the money. AS the months rolled
on and Mrs. Chadwick failed to
make good' President Beckwith be-
came alarmed and pressed matters to
IL point that brought exposure to all
parties concerned. The arrest. .of the
woman at her New York apartments
quickly followed and outcome has
/ been the star news Of the daily papers
in this country and abroad for weeks.
I So far as learned Mrs. Chadwick
owes about 81, l,25O. 900, most of which
has bcen spent in extrayagant living
in the last few years. She bought
nearly $780, 600 worth of Jewels horses,
carriages, automobiles and gave away
costly pianos and other elegant pres
ents right and left. She is now in the
CleYe]and Jail, while Indictment
after Indictment is piling up against
her. The Oberlin bank is ruined and
hundreds of innocent depositors, peo-
pie Of small means, have lost every
dollar. The president aud cashier are
under indictment by federal authors
ties for loanirg money without proper
security and safeguards.
| DR.. Chadwick and his nineteen-year-
, old daughter by his first wife are in
Paris, VIII the doctor is recovering
from an attack of Roman fever con-
tracted while travelling on the conti-
nent tor his health. :.
a singular feature of the affair is
that the Wade Park bank, of which
Reynolds is secretary and treasurer,
does not lose a dollar. Reynolds is
that conservative in his business
affairs that he would not loan her
funds of the bank, but it is told that
she got most of his private fortune,
though Reynolds is noncommittal OH
this point. He still stoutly maintains
that any man would have done exact
| ly as he did under all the circum-
stances and he has seen no evidence so
far to convince him that Carnegie
isn't really back of the woman. He
says that once when Mrs. Chadwick
was on a sick bed and dangerously i'll
she sent for him and told him that if
she did not get we'll to 60 to MIR.
Carnegie and he would straighten out
everything.
Carnegie says that he don't know
the woman.
Cleveland folks say that every one
of the woman's operations lead to the
conclusion that she hoped to stave off
an exposure until Carnegie should
drop off some day suddenly, when she
would flash the securities in the faces
of Carnegie's executors and get Il big
sum in settlement, which they would
pay rather than have the character of
J Carnegie dragged into the courts.
Mrs. Chadwick is about Al years Old
Little is known of her antecedents.
That which has been unfolded since
the exposure OF her doingS shows that
she is one Of the most dangerous con-
tidence women in the world. She
is believed to be Madame DE We're
who was sent up for forgery in Ohio
J about fifteen years ago and paroled by
the late President (then Goyernor)
Mckinley. She was born in Ontario.
She began her career by forging a
note at Woodstock, Canada. In 1919,
but was acquitted on the ground of
insanity. She married G. l.. Hoover
in Cleveland in 1880. In the next ten
years she lived in that city with a
} Mrs. York. whom she claimed was
her sister. After a series OF adven-
lures and one or two more marriages
she caught DR.. Chadwick in Pittsburg
in 1896 and married him. The sirgu-
: lar part of it is that 70 one in Cleve-
I land recognized her as being former
resident with an unsavory record.
G Tha woman is slicker than grease
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