Arizona silver belt., 1904-12-15
Career of the Notorious Woman Who It Is Claimed Is
 Nine. De We're
ALWAYS A CLEVER SWlNDlER
Claimed Andrew Carnegie to Be Her Father and His Name Was Forged to Nearly $I4, 100000 Securities. Bankers Her Dupes

A press dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio, says Andrew Carnegie has been subpoenaed to appear before the United States grand jury here on Wednesday, tO swear that he never signed any of the famous Chadwick securities, which tonight reach the astounding total of $l5, ,996, ,00o. This will bs increased to $20, 900, 900 before MT. Carnegie comes here. United States secret service agents are now on the trail of other notes disposed of by Mrs. Chadwick. The sl5, ,996, 900 represents only the forged paper that has actually been recovered by the off, ficials. There are positively known to be in existence another note for $500, ,OO0, disposed of somewhere in New Jersey, aud another one for SS00,- 900 somewhere in Pittsburg, in addi- tion to all of these there are said to be approximately s3,000,O00 more forged notes in existence.
 Mrs. Chadwick's Career
 Taere really seems to be no doubt that the wonderful Mrs. Chadwick and Mime. Lydia Ds We're are one and the same, although Mrs Chadwick still denies it. She is said to have first at. tained unflattering public attention in 1879, at the age of 22 or 23, when. as Miss Bigley she was arrested at Wood. stock, Ontario, for forging the name of Reuben Kipp, farmer of East OK ford, Ontario, to note for $500, of which she was acquitted ou the ground of insanity.
 After the Woodstock affair, Miss Bigley left home aud came to live with her sister, Ms. York, in Cleveland. She had trouble soon with the local money lenders, trying to borrow mon- ey on Mrs. York's furniture. Forced to leave the York home by her broth. er-in-law, she removed to anot her part of the city, where she became ac- quainted with pr Wallace s. Spring steen. They were married in Decem. Der, 1883, and twelve days afterward the doctor applied for divorce. Af- tsr that the woman lived in various boarding houses, being known as Mme. Rosa aud as. Mrs. Scott. After living for a time as Mme. La Rose, and claiming to be clairvoyant, she dis. appeared from Cleveland, and, it was learned later, married farmer named Scott. A divorce soon folio we'd, Scott losing his farm as well as his wife.
 After that, according to Mrs. Chad wick's sister, the woman married a man named Hoover, who left her a fortune.
 Imprisoned as Time. De We're
 Toledo was next the scene of opera tions. Elizabeth Bigley, according to Mrs. York, appeared there in 1890 as Mme De We're. She put on great style, |, rode in fine carriages and spent mon- ey with lavish hand. It is said she secured large sums of money from va. rious men, but her career was sudden ly cut short by her arrest on a charge of forgery. Notes aggregating $40, coo, to which the name of Richard Brown, a commission merchant of Youngs town, Ohio, was signed, brought about tho frnnhia TngAnh I clerk, was arrested as an accomplice, but was quilted, 1t being proved he was simply tool aud innocent of wrong1oing. Convicted of the for gerY, Mme. De We're was sentenced to nine and One-half years in the peni. tentlary. She was released on parole by the clemency Of Governor McKin- ley in 1893. Her next matrimonial venture was with Dr. Leroy s. Chad wick, the facts of which are well known through daily reports exposing her wonderful financial enterprises.
 Claimed Carnegie Her Father
 Mrs. Chad wick told me, as be. lieved then, in strictest confidence,' said Banker Beckwith in his confes- sion to Marshal Chandler, that she was the daughter of Andrew Carn sgie and that he turned over an immense fortune to her. 1 believed all along that she told the truth, and for that reason I vas so confident that the debts would be settled"
 That Mrs. Chadwick freely used the Carnegie-child yarn ia explanation of her Carnegie notes is evident. She told the same story to Fri Reynolds and pledged him to secrecy, just as she did in the case of Beckwith.