Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-08
CHADWICK CLIMAX.
Wonderful Woman Financier
Arrested Last Night.
CHARGE .ABETTINC EMBEzzLEMENT.
Her Arrest Has been Under COntem-
,platiOn For "a Week. Said District
Attorney II ClevcIand-Car- naI
negic to Testify.

dispatch from New York says that
Mrs. Cassie L.. Chadwick was placed
under arrest at G:25 O'Clock last night
by United States Marshal Hcnkle and
Chief Flynn Of the secret service. THE
arrest was made ut the instigation of
the federal officials of Cleveland, and
the warrant was issued by Assistant
District Attorney Baldwin. The charge
is aiding and abetting a bank official
IN an embezzlcment."
When the warrant was read to Mrs.
Chadwick her young son and maid
were present. When the reading was
finished she tainted and fell on the
bed. She quickly revived and said she
was innocent of the charge.
Her condition was such that it was
decided to leave her in the hotel dur
Ing the night under guard of secret
service men.
Mrs. Chadwick is held on Il charge
Of conspiracy with the president and
cashier of the Citizens National bank
of Oberlin, o., to defraud that institu-
ton by cashing a check which she
knew to be fraudulent, in that it had
been certified when there We're not suf-
ficient money to hel, credit to meet it.
In the warrant on which Mrs. Chad
wick was arrested, while in bed last
night at the Breslin hotel, there was no
mention of the name of Andrew Car
ncgie or of the S1,250,000 of notes to
which his maine has been signed.
Gill;, ,,:I1 INO o.,.,;x,ol This p,nYninn
before United States Commissioner
Shields, and unless she can give bail,
which will probably be fixed at $4,000,
she will be taken at once to Cleveland
to answer the charge brought against
her.
1t was with a great sigh of relief
that United States District Attorney
Sullivan received the dispatch aHnounc-
ing Mrs. Chadwick's arrest. He APP
Feared before the waiting newspaper
men Il moment later with the news,
and then, calling them. into his private
Office, gave them the particulars of the
way the case had been handled for the
last week. 90 itiai 'fN'
"AIrs.i Chadwickes arrest has been I'M
der contemplation for the last week."
he said. ~ was going to cause her ar
rest Sunday whenssthe warrants for
Beckwith and Spear were sworn out,
but | thought it, wels! to go slow in the
matter. and delayed action. In Toledo
United Stated MaEshal Chandler APP
peared before Unithaa States Commits
~-sipncr Brough and Hwore to an affidavit
charging Mrs. Chadwick with aiding
and abetting in, the misapplication of
the funds of a natiopal bank.
AT my request the attorney general
caused, secret service officials to be
placed on guard ut the Holland hotel
with instructions not to let her get out
Of their sight for 4 minute. l also adj
vTsed District Attorney Bennett to
have additional surveillance placed up
on her, and he has acted as l request
ii. If this espionage had not been main
tanned she would probably have es-
capped us, as is shown by the report of
Ter sensational attempt to get away in
the funds of Il national bank.
Il am not quite sure as to the wit
nesscs we viii summon i'll the case. We
can only name one of them at present.
This person will be Irving Belford,
now clerk of the United States court
for the northern district of Ohio, who
in 1890, in Toledo, defended Joseph
Lamb, who was arrested, with Nine.
Deverc, for forging $4,000 worth of
notes, Lamb being acquitted on the
ground that he was held in the wom-
ans power and did not knowingly
commit a crime. Mr.. Bedford will be
asked to identify Mrs. Chadwick as
Nine. Dcvere, which he declares he
can do. As to the rest of the case
which we have prepared | cannot talk
ut present. The l.otes signed with the.
.Hame of Andrew Carnegie will enter
into it, l suppose, and we may try to
prove forgery, but l think we can go
ahead with the case without the ele-
ment of forgery being proved. AS to
whether forgery can be proved l am
not now prepared to state"
Application has been made i'm the
United States district court for the
s%ummoning of Cassie L. Chadwick, Ira
Reynolds and the son of Mrs. Chad
wick for purposes OF examination in
bankruptcy proceedings. The petition
was filed by Nathan Loeser. receiver
for the Chadwick estate. The petition
recites that. although reasonable effort
has been made, the receiver has thus
far been unable to secure possession of
the property of Mrs. Chadwick.
Receiver Frank Lyon of the Citi-
2ens' National bank of Oberlin said
last hight that the arrest of Mrs. Chad
wick merely came 'in the natural
course of events
Andrew Squire, who came here from
Cleveland with Ira Reynolds, secretary
and treasurer of the Wade Park Bank
ing company, was of Mrs. Chad
wick's early visitors after her arrest.
lie had a half hours conference with
her, mt the conclusion of which he said:
THE arrest of Mrs. Chadwick does