Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-12-07

York, and moved away from her
neighborhood. Then she met DR..
Wallace S.. Springsteen and
aroused his sympathy with tales
of her troubles, at the same time
representing that she was heir to
a great deal of property in Can
ada. They were married by JUS
tice of the Peace Babcock, No
vember q, 1889, but trouble be-
gan in less than a month, and they
separated. In December, 1882,
DR.. Springsteen began suit for di-
vorce, and secured it the follow
ing October.
"The next heard of the woman
was when, under the name OF LA
Rose, she practised in this city
as a clairvoyant. She came back
here in 1896 and lived under the
name of Scott with Mrs. Hoover,
and then followed her conviction
for forgery in Toledo under the
name Of Madam De We're. After
her release from the penitentiary
she reappeared here as Mrs.
Hoover, and in 1897 was married
to DR.. Chadwick.
cit has been common knOwl-
edge among lawyers in this city
for a good many years that Mrs.
Chadwick was a dangerous wom-
an to have dealings with. Per-
haps it would have been a good
deal better for everybody if all
these facts that are now being
brought to light had been made
public years ago, but I suppose
everybody felt alike about it, and
when they got out of their diff
culties were perfectly willing to
keep quiet and say nothing more
about it,
Lawyer John A. Smith of Smith
& Taft, says he forced Mrs. Chad
wick to repay a big loan by sim
ply showing her photograph OF
Nine. De We're taken in the Ohio
penitentiary.
"Mrs. Chadwick has the great
est nerve of any woman | ever
met in my life,'' said Mr.. Smith,
land she never gave a better ex-
hibition of it than she gave in
New York the other day when
she declared that she knew moth
ing about Nine. De We're. Since
it has become known that | had
told what [ knew of her dozen
lawyers have been to my office
and told me things as strange and
unbelievable as [ have told. I'll
bet you that she will never deny
to me that she was Nine. De We're,
She knows that | know a great
deal about her."
The Chadwick family, into
which the woman married, while
never figuring prominently in the
social life of this city, is yet one
of the oldest and most esteemed.
DR.. Chadwick has been married
twice, his first wife having died
many years before he brought the
present one to his home. Her
coming to the family home was
most mysterious. At first nobody
seemed to have heard of her until
the doctor introduced her to his
household as his wife. But it
seemed to be the desire of the sec
ond Mrs. Chadwick to take a lead
ing part in the social life Of the
city, and to this end invitations
were sent out to all the old
friends of the Chadwick family.
The old house was newly decor
ated and furnished on a gaudy
and eXtravagant scale.
The first two or three parties
went off very successfully, al
though the richness and splendor
of the doctors new wife were a
little more than these staid old
folks had been accustomed to.
Very soon, however, people began
to ask one another where they
had seen Mrs. Chadwick before.
Some of them identified her in a
vague manner, but only sufficient
ly to decide that they did not
care to become too friendly with
her; and so their social inter
course gradually grew less and
less, until it became nothing more
than the formal interchange of
cards and a cool nod when they
met on the street.