The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-10
$I3,5OO 900.
That Amount OF Mrs. Chadwick's
Worthless Paper.
Said to Bear Name Of Andrew
Carnegie.
REYNOLDS HER DUPE.
Custodian Of Alleged Securities
Loaned Her Money.
He Held a Carnegie Note for
S5,OOO,OO0.
REYNOLDS HER DUPE.

dealer says:
..When. the contents of the mysterious
securities held for Mrs. Cassie l.
Chadwick by Iri Reynolds in the Wade
Park bank are revealed to the OUTSIDE
it will be found that the signature ol
Andrew Carnegie has apparently peer
forged on notes and other papers to the
total amount of $13, 100000. The securl-
ties held by Reynolds, together WITH
those that were held by the Citizens
National bank of Oberlin and have al
ready been made public, aggregate this
amount
1.-The mysterious securities held oy
REYNOLDS in trust, concerning which
there has been so much futile specula-
ton during the past two weeks, con-
sist of the following items:
First, a note for the sum of s5,oO,OOO
bearing the signature of Andrew Car
negie.
second. a certificate of trusteeship
which states that Andrew Carnegie has
In his possession stocks and bonds TO
the amount of s., 100000 held by him in
trust for Mrs. Chadwick. This paper
also bears the signature of Mr.. Carne-
gle.
These securities. supposed to repre-
sent the vast amount of $12,5OO,OOO nave
y
cipal basis on which Mrs. Chadwick
has conducted her financial system and
on which she has borrowed sums which
it is conceded, run UP to the millions
and are positively known to exceed ST.
100000.
And the same securities are the
rock which has wrecked the Oberlln
bank and caused the ruin of hundreds
of families, and losses to business men
almost without number For 1t is the
frankly expressed opinion of reputable
LAWYERS who have examined these pas
pers that they are not worth one cent
Moreover there is bitter irony in
the fact that the very man who neld
this worthless paper so faithfully ana
tenaciously for Mrs. Chadwick and
who apparently believed in its worth
so implicitly, and through whom 9TH
ers were perhaps innocently drawn
into the vortex of Mrs. Chadwick $
operations, should himself be one OF
the heaviest losers. For 1ri Reynolds,
after his long course of faithful guar
dianship for the woman whom ne
trusted, now considers himself a dupe.
1t is stated as a fact not hltherto
known that Reynolds loaned Mrs.
Chadwick practically all the money he
possessed. His entanglements, how
ever. involve only himself, the Wade
Park bank being in no way affected
The note Tor $0,OUU,UUU Is DeueNeQ
by all who have knowledge of it, to
have been written and signed by the
same person who filed out and signed
the notes for 100000 and S25O,OO0
held by the Citizens National bank of
Oberlin.
1T is understood that the certificate
of trusteeship states the securities
held by Andrew Carnegie for Mrs.
Chadwick, consist of United States
Steel bonds, Caladon railway stock in
Scotland and Great Western railway
stock in England, the three aggregat-
ing as above stated, $7,50O,OOO.
ITO put it briefly the great Chad
wick bubble has burst. There is no
hope apparent. The foundation on
which Mrs Chadwick's creditors rested
their expectations has sunk and the
Chadwick financial system which has
been tottering for the past two weeks
has fallen. Unless help should arrive
from some now unseen source the
creditors are helpless, and Mrs. Chad
wick has no resources. She must now
face the storm that has been steadily
growing in intensity
VIII Not Go to Cleveland.
New York, Dec. 1O.-Mrs. Chad
wick has sent word to United States
Commissioner Shields that she will not
waive eXamina ton before him as she
intended, but resist the efforts of the
federal officers to take her to Cleve-
land.
Lawyer George RyaH, counsel for
appeared as if the settlement of the
Newton claims was up in the air for
the present Mrs Chadwick had an
other bad turn at the Tombs this
afternoon and collapsed completely.
Commissioner Lantry paid a visit to
Mrs. Chadwick and he said afterward
that she was very sick and had aged
much in the last "a hours The COM
missioner instructed the prison physi-
clan to see Mrs. Chadwick at once
Mrs Chadwick received a note in
her cell today informing her that the
package held by Iri Reynolds of
Cleveland, had been opened and found
valueless. She read the note with an
parent interest, but refused to make
any statement.
Identified as Mime. Devere.
San Francisco, Dec. 1O.-Irs. Alice
NJ York has identified a photograph
of Nine Devere, published in an east
ern newspaper, as that of Mrs. Chad
wick, who she says is her sister. She
declines to make any further state
ments regarding the latter's early life
and declares that she knows nothing
regarding Mrs. Chadwick's present
trouble.
Says She Had AccompIices.
Boston, Dec. 1O.-In an interview
today concerning the Chadwick case
Herbert ID. Newton said:
Now that Mrs. Chadwick has been
arrested 1 think that it is my duty to
show up the whole miserable fabric
of falsehood that has been worked on
me and on several other people in the
country. What the total liabilities
may be I do not know, but / do know
that she could never have borrowed
the money she did and in the manner
she did without some one as an ac-
complice.
How she worked that I am not
sure. I learn that certain packages
alleged to contain several millions in