The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-13
MRS. CHADWICK
TWICE INDICTED
FORGERY is THE CHARGE.
REYNOLDS TELLS HOW THE WON
AN FOOLED HIM.

Cleveland, o.. Dec 12.-Trouble for
Mrs. Cassie l.. Chadwick increased at
rapid rate to-day. She was twice in
dicted by the grand jury of Cuyahoga
county and her old time friend Iri
Reynolds took the stand in court and
made evident his intention to shield
and protect her no longer.
The aged secretary of the Wade
Park Bank presented a pathetic pic
ture as he answered question after
question which brought out his own
implicit faith in the woman whose
financial transactions have well nigh
ruined him in fortune, and caused him
such infinite trouble. He gave evil
dence that he still believes his trust
was justified. Only one query he at
tempted to evade. This was when he
/ was asked how much of his personal
estate had passed into the possession
of Mrs. Chadwick. His eyes filled and
he requested that he be excused from
answering. The question was not
pushed.
The formal indictments voted against
Mrs Chadwick this afternoon are
based, one upon the Carnegie note for
$25O,OOO, which was made payable at
the office of Andrew Carnegie in New
York city, and the other upon the Car
negie note for $50O.0OO which was pay
able at the National Bank of Com
merce in New York. Under each in
dictment are two counts, one charging
forgery, the other uttering of forged
paper.
Information of the indictments was
at once wired to New York by County
Prosecutor Keeler. and he requested
that Mrs. Chadwick be Immediately re-
arrested if she secured bail on the 9TH
er charges hanging over her.
What She EoId Reynolds.
The examination of Iri Reynolds,
/ treasurer and secretary of the Wade
| Park Bank, before Referee Remington
| in the bankruptcy court to-day failed
to disclose any asset that might be
secured by Receiver Loeser, appointed
by the federal court, but brought from
Mr.. Reynolds, in reply to questions,
the following answer:
"She told me she was the illegiti-
mate daughter of Andrew Carnegie"
Later, Mr. Reynolds, in detailing his
lTdHSdCllOIS Win MI D. OAAuNA~Ag
said:
I'm all my transactions with Mrs
Chadwick / believe from what she told
me that Andrew Carnegie was backing
her and all her indebtedness would be
paid"
He then added "And have not
had anything yet to make me doubt
it."
In detailing how he came into pos
haa ring
the name of Andrew Carnegie, ne said:
How He Got the "securities."
MRS. Chadwick called me to her
house and said she wished to intrust
to me securities. She said she had
been advised TO place them in the pos
session of a third party, and she want
ed me to take care of them"
This was the package that was OPEN
ed last Friday night In the presence
of Mr.. Reynolds and Attorney Stearn
by Attorney Andrew Squire. The
package was produced in court and
Mr. Reynolds identified the Carnegie
note, the mortgage deed and the
copies of an alleged trust agreement.
Continuing the witness said. She
then handed me a paper to sign" This
paper the witness did not have with
him, but as near as he could remem-
ber, It read: Il certify that I hold
In trust for Mrs. Cassie l.. Chadwick
securities and a note for $1,000 000."
Mr.. Reynolds would not swear to the
wording, but IL was to that effect. The
note was not indorsed but he had
no doubt that the alleged maker of
the note was back of the woman. The
contents of the package were indenti-
fed separately by Mr.. Reynolds, and
at the request of the examining coun-
sci he marked each paper as an ex-
hibit.
Asked as to other transactions Mr.
Reynolds said:
Hom She Got $4,000.
There As one. It is q little banking
secret, but I'm willing to tell all. She
came 70 me, think 1t was in 1904, and
said she had a $4,000 paper payable at
the Prudential Trust Company. II /
would let her have the money she would
put up United States Steel Corporation
bonds I'm the morning as collateral.
81 consulted my committee and with
their consent / loaned her the money.
The next day she brought a package
which she said contained 100000 In
United States Steel bonds and a $780,
600 certificate. which / was to hold I'm
trust for her under the same conditions
as the previous package. / held these
until month ago when In the presence
of several gentlemen they were opened.
a
gan his suit. They contained bonds all
right, but they we're not steel bonds"
When asked what they were, Mr..
Reynolds said:
There we're five $1,000 bonds OF the
Home Telegraph Company OF Niagara,
N. y, and six certificates OF the Buck
eye Fish Company"
once Onered Him Aid.
At one time she had made written
statement, he said. 10 his committee
that che had over two millions In bonds
IN the safety deposit vaults IN the
Wade Park Bank.
He had read the trust agreement.
but had never seen the signature. Mrs.
Chadwick had told him the original
was IN the package be- held. Ho con-
ndently believed everything would b.
paid, up 10 a week ago, and had no
suspicion Of anything wrong until a
few days before Newton brought his
suit.
ashs has fooled ne ana many men
Continued On Fiffh PaEe