The San Francisco call., 1904-12-14
JUDGE OLCOTT A LAMB"
Tells How He Was Deceived by Cassie
l.. ChadWicE

NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-'I was a
lamb and 1 regret to say that for fif-
teen days 1 believed in Mrs. Chadwick
and was one of her many victims. :"
said ex-Judge William H X. OIcott.
of a law firm of which Ex-Governor
Frank S. Black is a member, to-day
He continued:
Ny connection and the firms connection with
MIS- CHADWICK Is in about this way. Mrs.
Chadwick came TO our office on March 2 1904
and saw Ex-Governor Black and myself She
told the Governor that she wanted him TO go
70 cleveland: that his position former Gov
ernor OF the State Of New York would help
her 70 settle her affairs, and she drew from
her retlcule $1,000 and laid II in front of Gov
ernor Black for his expenses to Cleveland
The Governor concluded not to go and IL was
nnally decided that I should 20 and for my
fee for one day in Cleveland she paid $500
The object OF her visit to was TO have
Us relieve her from a threatened attachment
against her home on Euclid avenue Cleveland
which was TO have been levied upon by Ober-
lin College for a claim Of SIS, 600. This claim
l understood was later paid. but not through
Mrs. Chadwick. in that slow. impressive
manner OF hers. said TO Governor Black: II
am a very rich woman. l have So 600 600 In
q trust fund" We were naturally impressed-
In order 70 make good her statement she pro-
duced Iri Reynolds certificate for the IS. 600 coo
OF securities held by him. This naturally led
US 10 believe that the woman spoke the truth
went TO Cleveland that night-the night of
=
returning on March 5. On my arrival in Cleve-
land asked Mrs. Chadwick to show me her
securities. but under one pretext or another
che eFaded the proposition and did not show.
tnern 10 me- Her excuse all the time was
that ri Reynolds was out OF town and finally
after banking hours, when insisted upon see =
ing either the securities or Iri Reynolds she
got MI Reynolds on the telephone l talked
with him and he acknowledged 10 me hav1n1
these securities in his possession At that
time believed that they were ali right
"a. armed ls WIN THIS information; saw the law
erance and inquired about a settlenent Tbev
wanted to know. from me II 1 had any as
Snranees sa,lal OF settlement other than what Mrs
Shsowick had given me- I told them that
had not They replied to me: WHY Won do
not know any more about this case than we
I had to admit the soft Impeachment A..
far as my accomplishing anything with Mrs
Chadwick and the Oberlin people was con-
Cleveland ended right there.
Olcott said that before he left
Cleveland Mrs. Chadwick borrowed
$500 of him, making out a check for
that amount She promised. he said
that the check would be sent or the
money paid not later than March 6
but she did not do so. He continued:
I then became somewhat suspicious hut NOT
entirely SO. / still had confidence in her and
probably would have believed her to this dav
were il not for the fact that 1 heard from
Cleveland that she had been representing IL
about town that I was Mr. Carpegie's repre-
sentative Letters to this effect asking me
II were really Mr.. Carnegie's representative
came 70 me and then lost faith in Mrs Chad
wick and determined 10 get my money back
On March Is l went TO Cleveland and de-
nanded from Mrs. Chadwick immediate pay
ment Of the $500 had loaned her. She re-
piled: why, am sick and. 1
cannot pay you to-day / told her in reply
that 1 came 10 Cleveland TO get that money
to get it that day, and that 1 should not
leave without IL: that II ] did not get the
money / would take legal steps against her.
She said that II insisted she would have the
money inside OF two hours.
At the expiration of two hours I returned
and she paid me $500. That terminated this
firms connection with Mrs Chadwick Since
then Mrs. Chadwick has made repeated efforts
70 again retain this firm help her out Of
her difficulties, but have always refused
to have anything more TO do with her. In
spite Of these repeated refusals on our part
Mrs. Chadwick persisted In her efforts TO Sc
cure the firms assistance and even on the day
OF the arrest of Mrs. Chadwick she sent her
lawyer Edmund w. Powers to me to retain
US. but refuseds Ard later than
yesterday were again asked to be her
counsel and usual refused.
] cannot reveal the secrets Of my client, but
i want to say that she gave reasons for
the inception Of the trust fund which have