Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-12-13
COMMUNICATIONS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES s
HER CHECKERED CAREER.
MRS. CHADWICK'S LIFE STORY AS
5 TOLD IN CLEVELAND. :
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9 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
tice of the Peace Babcock on Novem-
per u, 1889, but trouble began in less
Lnan month, and they separated. In
I December, 1882, DR.. Springsteen be.
gan suit for divorce, and secured 1t the
following October.
The next heard of the woman was
when, under the name Of La Rose she
practiced In this city as clairyoyant.
she came back here in 1886 and lived
under the name Of Scott with Mrs.
hoover, ard then followed her convic-
ton for forgery in Toledo, under the
name OF Madam De We're After her
release from the penitentiary she re-
appeared here as Mrs. Hoover. and in
1897 was married to Dir. Chadwick.
IL mas been common knowledge
among lawyers in this city for a good
many years that Mrs Chadwick was
dangerous woman to have dealings
with. Perhaps it would have been
good deal better for everybody If all
these facts that are now being brought
4 to light had been made public years
ago, but suppose everybody felt alike
/ about 1t. and when they got out of
their difficulties We're perfectly willing
to keep quiet and say nothing more"
Lawyer John A. Smith, Of Smith &
ETaft, says he forced Mrs. Chadwick to
repay q big loan by simply showing
her photograph of Madame De We're,
taken in the Ohio penitentlary.
Mrs. Chadwick has the greatest
nerve of any woman ever met in my
life" said Mr.. Smith, "and she never
gave a better exhibition of 1t than
when she gave in New York
when she declared that she knew moth
ing about Nine. De We're. Since 1t has
become known that had told what I
knew OF her dozen lawyers have
been to my office and told me things
as strange and unbelievable as I have
told. I'll bet you that she'll never
deny to me that she was Nine. De
Vere."
/ The Chadwick family into which
this woman married. while never figur-
ing prominently in the social life Of
this city, is yet one of the oldest and
most esteemed. DR.. Chadwick has
/ been married twice, his first wife hav-
Ing died some years before he took
| the present one to his home Her COM
ing to the family home was most mys-
ferrous. At first nobody seemed to
have heard of her until the doctor in.
troduced her to his household as his
wife. But it seemed to be the desire of
the second Mrs. Chadwick to take
leading part In the social life of the
city, and to this end invitations were
sent out to all the old friends of the
/ Chadwick family. The old house was
newly decorated and furnished on a
gaudy and extravagant scale.
The first two or three parties went
off very successfully. although, the
richness and splendor of the gowns
and jewels worn by the doctors new
wife were a little bit more than these
staid old folks had been accustomed
/ to. Very soon, however, people began
to ask one another. where they had
seen Mrs. Chadwick before. Some Of
them identified her in a vague manner,
but only sufficiently to decide that
they did not care to become too
friendly with her; and go their social
intercourse gradually grew less and
less, until it became nothing more
than the formal interchange of cards
and cool nod when they met on the
street.
! 1t was not very long before DR..
4 Chadwick and his wife went away
from the city to remain several
months. Had DR.. Chadwick's practice
been of the fashionable sort, this alb
sence would have been more noticed,
but he had never been fashionable
doctor; his practive was almost en-
tirely confined to the Bohemians and
other foreign classes who live on the
west side. When he left for Europe
a year ago it was not much remarked,
:. but those who recall the circumstances
of his going say now that it was very
!. evident that some such exposure al
has now occurred was imminent at
that time.
A woman who knew Dr., Chadwick's
first wife said that just about year
ago his daughter made round of Wis
it's to her mothers most intimate
friends and told each one that she was
going away.
1--WE may be gone month or two"
she said, "and we may be gone year
or two, and we may never return"
Recalling this. the informant said:
.'We are now all thoroughly convinced
that both DR.. Chadwick and his daugh-
ter were aware of what his wife had
been doing. Evidently exposure was
right at hand and there seemed no
way to avoid it. After they had gone
Mrs. Chadwick. with her wonderful in
genuity must have found some way 10
ward it off,"