The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-12-23

Seen from Il distance it would ap- J
pear that Mrs. Cassie l.. Chadwick
had made group Of Ono bankers
look like a lot of monkeys with the
Simian'S cunning in the background.
But ii one should happen to drop into
Cleveland about this time and get on
to the ground floor of this woman's
operations and look up the character
and business atandng of the men she
fooled, sarcasm will turn to wonder
that more tinanciers were not caught.
1t would take several pages of this
paper to review eien but briefly Mrs.
Chadwick'S career. On'v enough is
here given to enable those readers of
the GRAPHIC who have not access to
the associated press dispatches to
catch on to the facts in the matter
for the case bids to be one of the most
sensational swindling operations in
criminal history.
The ease with which Mrs. Chad
wick obtained large sums OF money to
start with was due wholly to the high
character and standing of her nus
band, DR.. l.. S.Clladwick,i lin Cleveland,
where he had lived fer many years.
No citizen or professional man stood
higher IN the estimation Of the best
people of Cleveland than did DR.
Chadwick previous to the recent
trouble. DR.. Chadwick was a widower
and a man of considerable wealth
when he first met the woman in the
case. This was about eight years ago.
She represented herself us being an
orphan and had quite little means
of her own. DR.. Chadwick was
troubled with rheumatism. The fair
clarmer recommended Il certain mas
sage treatment and it proved SO sue
ceSsful that gratefulness ripencd into
love on the DOCTORS part. When he
brought the fair creature to Clcyeland
and installed her in his beautiful
home on famous Euclid avenue among
the aris.ocrary of the Ohio metropoli
it was enough for them to know that
she was Dr. Chadwick's wife.
Just when and how Mrs. Chadwick
began her financial operations and
where she got her money is not clear.
Many from whom she borrowed sums
from 800 tn $1,000 are keeping out Of
sight, not caring to have their names
brought into the notoriety Of the case.
Most Of the loans She met promptly,
| II Il
borrowing from one man to pay an
other ii sort OF an endless chain. as it
were. She represented 20 these part
les that She had lot of money in her
own right, and as She met her obliga-
tions 10 one snspicioned anything
wrong.
| Among the first men she had deal
lngs with was Iri Reynolds. secretary
and treasurer of the Wade Park bank
of Cleveland. Mr.. Reynolds has been a
lifelong friend of DR.. Chadwick. After
she had thoroughly gained the conf
dence of Reynolds by borrowing money
OF him and repaYing it from time to
time, and often large sums running
into the thousands, She told him one
day in a well-teigned burst of conf
dencc that She was the illegitimate
daughter of Andrew Carnegie and
swore hlm to secrecy. A few months
after, in March of last year. she play
ed her trump card by depositing with
him the securities which have been
at the bottom of all the trouble: swept
Reynolds priyate fortune Away, ruin
ed the Citizens National bank of
Oberlin, Ohio, made telons of the
aged president and cashier sud
stuck nobody knows how many
others tor thousands of dollars that
they will never see again.
When Mrs. Chadwick turned this
particular trick she summoned Rey.
nolds to her house and contidel tc
him that She had been advised by her
attorney in New York city to place
uer papers in REYNOLDS hands. The
papers consisted of a note for s5 900, 00C
signed by Andrew Carnegie, trust
agreement for $40 100000 also signed
by the steel king and a mortgage for
$500 given by Pittsburg parties. She
explained to Reynolds in the presence
of his lifelong friend Dr. Chadwick
that the note Of Carnegie's was Simply
security for some stock that Carnegie
was handling for her, and that. the
trust agreement was for $40, 0tts, O0(
more OF her property. Then in SSlre
less otf-hand way She suggested thai
she ought to have some kind of a re
ceipt to Show-that Or. Chadwick
might be protected in case anythin!
happened to her. Reynolds gave he
one, The adventures was tnen read,
TO make John d. Rockefeller look Iik
a pauper in her daily o.spenditures.
Armed with this receipt. Showing
that one Of the most reliable and res
ponsible bankers in Cleveland he'll