The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-15

SWarmed about the train Shed ana was
grouped on vantage points on the
heights surrounding the station. She
lnstinctively shrank back into corner
of the drawing room and said:
Il can not see why all those people
should be here -
After the train had been emptied of
its passengers, the United States mar
shall, Mr.. Chandler, stepped aboard her
car where he was introduced to Mrs
Chadwick, who asked that she be Ia
ken out as speedily as possible, and
preceded by Emil Chadwick and Freda
Swanstorm, the nurse, the party made
It's way to the platform and thence
through the dense crowds to carriage
in waiting.
Although in her own city, no friendly
face greeted her at the car and Mrs
Chadwick stepped into her carriage as
if she had been an entire stranger TO
this community. AS soon as Mrs. Chad
wick was recognized by the crowd there
was a spontaneous outburst of jeers,
whistles and shouts of coarse ep1thets.
The crowd was Increased by others VINO
were attracted by the demonstration:
People ran from all directions and
crowded about the central figure of the
case, and not until the police were
called upon could the officers attempt
to conduct their prisoner to the carriage
in waiting.
Shouts of Here's the notes. and
where's the money!" greeted Mrs
Chadwick upon her appearance, ana as
upon her she seemed to grow faint and
WaVered as though about to fall. IL
seemed that only for the deputy mar
shalS supporting her she must utterly
collapse.
The arrival of the woman was most
spectacular in every respect. AS soon as
the police could. clear way and bring
depot platform the officers led their pris-
oner toward the gate and out through the
entrance. There the street was almost
blocked and web nigh impossible TO the
carriages and teams. The camera memo
overcast sky and dark day, and through
this battery passed Mrs Chadwick, Mar
shall Chandler and his two deputies INTO
driven away to the federal building:
Mrs. .Chadwick's son Emil and the
nurse, F'reda, stood about the front of the
station seeking a carriage for which they
had telegraphed ahead from Ashtabula.
There was apparently some m1s Isl f6ere
for them. There was a scarcity of car
riages and Emil and the nurse were taken
to the federal building in the carriage
with the Associated Press representative.
This carriage followed Immediately after
the one carrying Mrs. Chadwick, followed
During all this time. the crowd kept
hooting and jeerfng and as the carriages
followed by some of the crowd: the
shouts and cries were taken up and pass
ed along all the way to the federal build
ing through the busiest part of the city.
Business men on the way home, shoppers
of the woman's arrival and crowded to
the curb. The jeers and boots were taken
up along the entire line, and as each
square that brought the party nearer the
business center passed the crowd
continued to increase and to avoid the in
creasing excitement the officials arranged
to approach the federal building from the
rear.
AS the carriages neared the building the
crowds on the sidewalks broke into the
streets and many began to run alongside
the carriages, expecting to see Mrs. Chad
-I,a bn 6I1iI NV a
main entrance.
In this the crowd that had assembled
before the federal building was disap-
pointed. for the carriage with the prisoner
was driven into an alley in the rear of the
because of the narrow passageway being
blocked with wagons. The crowd already
there was augmented by that which had
assembled before the front of the build
ing, and there was a veritable blockade.
. The police were forced to drive the
crowd away with clubs, while they extriz
Gated the Carriages from the tangIe with
the wagons. During all this added excite
ment and as the crowd was being cleared
from the alley, eager, peering faces were
thrust into the carriage windows and
vulgar expressions hurled at the occu-
pants.
After consuming about twenty minutes
in going a distance of about twice as
many feet. the prisoners carriage Was
ing and, with the officers, was taken to
federal office on the fifth floor on the
Inc poIlce continued TO peat PACK the
crowd and out or the next carriage the
nurse Freda was assisted and taken up
to join her mistress. Before Freda
reached her, however, Mrs. Chadwick was
calling for her, entirely ignorant of the
girls whereabouts Emil did not leave
the carriage throughout the entire pro-
ceedingS.
While Mrs Chadwick with her nurse
was in the federal building Emil. in the
carriage outside, was subjected to the
scrutiny of the mob and was forced to
listen to anathemas and maledictions as
we'll as sarcastic and bitter references to
notes. diamonds" Securities and the
like. The insults and jeers were not con-
heartily taken up by everyone on the
streets in the neighborhOod. Even the
clerks in the postoffice. working on the
ground floor of the building, flocked to a
rear door located next to the one entered
by Mrs Chadwick, and laughingly shout
ed: Let's see the securities" referring r Ing to
the baggage of Mrs. Chadwick and Freda
which they saw through the carriage
doors.
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