Bisbee daily review., 1904-12-04
MRS. CHADWICK'S SENSATIONAL CASE
CIRCUMSTANCE SEEM TO UN- MIsTAkAsLY CONNECT HER WITH FORMER WOMAN
 CONVICT.
Found Her Victims Among Wealthy Men--ier Power of Persuasion Ae- counted For By the Theory That 1t Was Hypnotic Exercise.

Was Hypnotic Exercise.
 New York. Dec. 3.--If Mrs. Leroy Chadwick, wtfe of a wealthy Cleve- land physician and now at the Hol- land House. is not Lydia De We're, clairvoyant, ex-convict and notorio0s swdnGler with many names. she is the victim of a peculiar chain Of facts that point to ner as the woman of blemishea name.
 Since 1897, when. as Mrs. c. l.. Hoover, a supposed widow. she was married 10 one of Cleveland's s most prominent physicians, until a recent Investigation was made, there was ID suspicion that she was not entitled to the high social position she held. Now, following suits involving more than a quarter of a million collars. which she is alleged to have secured by peculiar methods frotn financial institutions and individuals, the strange story of her life is laid bare.
 Lydia De We're, who was sent to the Ohio penitertiary for nine and a half years for forgery. and who has been a persistent criminal from ten der years, was Lylie M. Bigiey, of Eastwood. Ont, village near Wood stock There is no doubt O. this statement. Mrs Campbell, of Wood stock, wife of a prominent manufact- urer of machinery, and a woman held in the highest respect in a community where she has lived all her life. Is a sister of Lylie M. Bigley. This is also undoubtedly true.
 Mrs. Campbell said yesterday tha' she was a sister of Mrs. Chadwick, Of Cleveland. but that she had never heard thst her sister had been known as Lydia De We're.
 Mrs. Campbell said also that her mother. Mrs Mary Anu Bigley, who lived with her, was at presen. visiting another daughter, Mrs. Daniel Pine. at Glennville, suburb of Cleveland This fact was wired to Clevelanl A reporter called on Mrs. Fne. who ad- mitted that her mother. Mrs Bigley from Woodstock, was with her. but she declared that her relationship to Mrs. Chadwick was very distant. She said that her mother was more than eighty years old and was confined to her bei and could not be seen
 Daniel Pine, who is a member of the Patt.son Manufacturers company was called on at his office in Cleve- land. He declared that Mrs. Chad wich was 10 relative at all: that Dr. Chadwick was merely his family physician. These denials were made after the late disclosures. in two Cleveland papers, of the strange facts in the life of Mrs Chadwick.
 l. was admitted at the Holland House yesterday, although previously denied, that Mrs. Chadwick was there registered as Mrs. Cassie L. Chad wick" She has been al the hotel for several weeks. it is said. and was then under the care of a physician. To 9 reporter, who calle5, Mrs. Chad wick sent word that sine was ioo ill  sent to her apartment she returned an emphatic denial Of :he statements published here an in Cleveland to the effect that she was 5ver known as Lydia De We're, that she ever served term in the Ohio Per.tantiary, anG tha; she ever made use of the long list of aliasis accredited to her by the newspapers of Cleveland.
 Tt is all a wicked falsehood." she wrote. adding that a great wrong had been done to her and other innocent persons
 Lydia De We're was said to possess hypnotic powers. She practiced nearly all the arts of swindling, in c1udlng forgery -blackmail, and hel specially vas winning the confidence of men of weahh-acute men of af fairs, Imposed to be incapable oi falling into the snares of a siren.
 That she had some remarkable psycholog. cal power cannot be doub; ed. Sometimes she exerted it cruel ly, as in the instance of Joseph Lamb a Toledo express clerk, on a salary oi s1,000 a year The manner in which Lamb allowed. himself to be victim ized by her.; securing for her JnaTt than s20.e00 and invoiIng himself 1T ruin, convinced many that he Was under some sort of hypnotic spell.