The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-12-15
OF NO VALUE.

Cleveland, Dec. 10.-The mystic.
rious securities held in trust by Bank
or Reynolds for Mrs. Chadwick consist
of note for S., 600, 900 bearing the
signature of Andrew Carnegie, GER
tificate of trusteeship which states
that Andrew Carnegie has in his pos
session stocks and bonds to the amount
Of 7, 500, 900 held in trust TOR Mrs.
Ohawdick, which also bears the sig
nature of Carnegie. The note for
$4,000, 900 was executed in 1902
There are two copies of the certificate
exactly alike but executed separately
and neither marked duplicate. Ac-
cording to the certificates the secu-
rites held by Carnegie for Mrs. Chad
wick consist of United States steel
bonds, Caledonian railway stock in
Scotland and great western railway
stock in England. Added to the
twelve and one half million "Secu-
rites" are half million and quarter
million in notes held by citizens of
the National bank of Oberlin and a
half million also admitted to exist by
President Beckwith of the Oberlin
Bank making total of S13, $50, 900.
All three bear Andrew Carnegie S
name. Banker Iri Reynolds, it is
reliably stated, has personally loaned
Mrs. Chadwick his entire fortune.
who have examined the securities"
say they are not worth one cent.
San Francisco, Dec. 10.-Mrs. Alice
M. York, sister of Mrs. Cassie Il.
Chadwick, has announced that within
short period she and her daughter
intended to leave this city. Whether
they are summoned east to testify be.
fore the grand jury in Ohio, or are
simply leaving town to escape the IN.
pleaasnt notoriety in which Mrs.
Chadwick's career has involved them,
was not divulged.
Mrs. York says positively that hei
sister, Mrs. Chadwick, is one and the
same person with the notorious Nine.
De We're, who served a term in the
Ohio State penitentiary following heI
conviction on the charge Of forgery.
Hitherto the personality.of Mrs. Chad.
wick has been confused with that OF
Nine Lydia Devere, the one time
| olairgoyapt, whose exploitings once
astounded the public but the woman
has managed to throw such shadow
over ner past that the identity of the
two women could not be established al
the same. However, the statement Of
Mrs. York shows not only that Mrs.
Chadwick is Nine. De We're. but that
she has used many other aliases.
Cleveland, O., Dec. ~ "A special
from Oberlin, o., says: The comics.
sion of President @. 7. Beckwith OF
the wrecked Citizens National Bank
of Oberlin, now in the possession oil
the Federal authorities. is story sc
startling with relation to the monu.
mental transactions of Mrs. Chadwick
as to be almost unbelievable.
The unequivo3al allegation is made
| in the statement of President Beckwitf
that the means by which Mrs. Chad.
wick secured the immense leans wal
by written promise delivered into
the hands of the banker that the Citi.
zens Bank would be made the trustee
of the $1,000, 900 estate, which has
just been revealed to the world as al
absolute myth. The written promise
delivered by Mrs. Chadwick to Beob
with was to the effect, exactly, that
her affairs would be turned over to
the Oberlin Bank July 1, 1908. Ii
consideration therefor President Beck
with and Cashier Spear were to re
ceive $4,000 year each for theil
trouble. In addition the bank was tt
he given bonus of close to $500, 00t
when the loans had all been psit
back. The confession practically tell
story of how the Oberlin bank hat
been used as a clearing house for Mrs
Chadwick's manipulations.
The story of how Mrs. Ohadwiol
played with the two bankers, afte
having them once In her power, a
told by Beckwith, is absorbing in tn
intensity of its interest. Mrs. Chad
wick Gained the fears of her victim
with the claim that she was a rela
tive of Andrew Carnegie.
| Cleveland, Dec, a. Secretary Ir
Reynolds, of the Wade Bank, declare
that his implicit belief in the state