The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-11-29
WOMAN OF
MYSTERY
Mrs. Jessie Chadwick Has
Disappeared.
IS SHE AN EX-CONVICT
Boston Business Man Has Sued
Her for a Claim of
100000.

NEW YORK. Nov. %ij.-sirs. Jessie
| Leroy Chadwick of Cleveland, defend
| ant in suit brought against her by
| Herbert Il. Newton, q Boston business
| man, for the recovery of $4,000 lent
| In promissory notes which. he declares,
were given under false representation,
| and who in personal appearance is said
| to resemble the convicted forger, Lydia
Devere. has left the Holland House
here, in which she had for many
| months been a regular and an honored
guest. 1t is said that Mrs Chadwick
claimed TO have deposited securities to
the value of S5,000,000.
The circumstances OF her sudden de-
parture presented all the elements of
the dramatic. Up to Saturday evening
Mrs. Chadwick had been bissfully una
ware of the storm that was about to
break over her head, even though she
knew that Mr.. Newton had entered
suit against her for the recovery of his
money and that the western newspa-
pers were hot on trail of condolences
which seemed to suggest n connection
with Lydia Devere, who in 1891 was
sentenced to nine years Imprisonment
in the state penitentiary of Ohio and
was subsequently pardoned in 1893 by
Governor Mckinley.
The striking likeness between Mrs.
Chadwick and the Devere woman fur
Their accentuated the coincidence.
Tho Crpata-t iuUppnitVr had Inon nN
ercised by the hotel authorities to con
ceal the fact of her departure. The
clerks We're instructed to say that she
was not in the hotel, but they said it
in a way to excite the suspicion of the
reporters.
The court issued subpoenas for both
Mrs. Chadwick and Iri Reynolds. sec
rotary and treasurer of the Wade Park
Banking company.
Mr. Reynolds has declared that he
did not know whose name was signed
to the alleged note for 100000 pay
able to Mrs. Chadwick, that he was not
holding any such note among the Sc
curitieS in his possession belonging TO
Mrs. Chadwick and that he did not
even know of any such note being in
existence
He said he did not believe there was
such a note and said there were NJ dia
monds or other jewels in his possession
among the securities he holds for Mrs.
Chadwick.
According to Cleveland paper,
Mrs. Chadwick has masqueraded at
different times under the aliases OF |
Nine. Devere, Lydia d. Scott. Nine.
Clingao. Mrs. Elizabeth Bigley and |
Mrs. Or Hoover.
Under these names, it is alleged, she |
operated as spiritualist medium, |
moving mysteriously from town to |
town. leaving trail of forgeries in her |
borrowed money. engaged in great |
financial transactions with others as |
hackers and was always plentifully |
supplied with money
1t was in 1891 that Dr. Leroy Chad
wick, one of Cleveland's most distin-
guished physicians, returned to that
city with the wife he had married in
Canada. DR. Chadwick was rich. and
his practice brought him an enormous
income. The woman he had married
possessed great beauty, notwithstand-
ing her forty years of age, and her re-
gal manner and air of suave distinc-
ton and high breeding carried her at
once into the homes of the most promi-
nent in the city of Cleveland.
No question as to her antecedents
was ever asked in Cleveland, as the
fact that she was the wife Of DR..
Chadwick was enough to assure her q
in the most exclusive social
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