Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-12-01
CARNEGIE WAS
AN EASY VICTIM
Steel Magnate Said to Have In.
dorsed Woman's Note
for $500, 900.
SHE HAS PRISON RECORD
And When 1t is All Known 1t May
Prove Most Wonderful Romance
of Crime-Her Examination
Postponed Till Thursday.

Cleveland, o., Dec. 1.-The hearing
of Mrs. c. L. Chadwick in connection
with the suit brought against her by
Herbert b. Newton of Brookline, Mass,
has been postponed until Thursday
next. IT
A report to the effect that Andrew
Carnegie's name appears on q note for
100000 given by Mrs. Chadwick as Sc
curity for loan from the Citizens Ma
tional bank OF Oberlin has been per-
sistently circulated here today.
Developments of today indicate that
Mrs. Chadwick has for long time done
business with many of the banks of
Cleveland and surrounding towns OH
a big scale. Leading bankers have
Mrs. Chadwick from $4,000 to 100000
on notes indorsed by wealthy persons.
These notes have, it is said. usually
been paid promptly when due.
The Woman's Career.
Mrs. Cassie Chadwick, society
woman and wife of DIR. Leroy S. Chad
wick, was today discovered to be Nine.
Lydia DE We're of Toledo, who served
a term in the Ohio penitentiary at
Columbus.
DR. Chadwick is one of Cleveland
best known men. His wife came into
public attention a week ago, when she
was sued for 100000 by III. b. New
ton, banker of Irookline, Mass, who
loaned her that sum of money without
any security.
Mrs. Chadwick is believed to be at
the Holland house in New York. Her
husband and stepdaughter are said to
be travelling in Europe.
Hypnotism is believed to have been
the source of the woman's power.
Other Possible Aliases.
In lieu of any other story of the life of
Mrs. Chadwick, the career of Elizabeth
Bigley, of Woodstock. Ontario, and that OF
Nine. DE We're, alias Lydia ID. Scott,
alias Lydia Clingman." alias Mrs.
Hoover" alias Mrs. Bagley." could be
made to ut into it without doing chronol-
ogical violence and without introducing
into such devastating of life stories an
element of improbability.
The likeness of Mrs. c. l.. Hoover, taken
before her marriage to DIR. Chadwick, has
u strange resemblance to the photograph
of Lydia Dc We're" taken al the Ohio
penitentiary in 1891, where she was serving
n sentence for forgery in Toledo in 1890
Nine De We're was sent up for nine and q
half years, but she was released on parole
in 1898.
There are criminal records of Mrs. Big
ley and Mrs. DE We're and there are the
pictures of the convict and of the Euclid
avenue woman looking so remarkably
alike
After the Penitentiary.
Reporting later to the officials of the
penitcntiary, in conformity with the law
for parolcd prisoners, Madam De Verc
said in one letter that she was staying
with her mother, Mrs. Ann Bisley, al
Woodstock; on another occasion she sale
her home was with Mrs. Alice York oil
Cleveland. The identity or Mrs. Dc
We're" and Miss Bigley' is thrs cstab-
lishcd. Miss Bigley" was born in q
small town not far from Woodstock. for
ty-seven years ago. and was tried for
but acquitted of, forgery in 1879. There
was talk then Of occult power possessed
by the prisoner.
Mrs. Chadwick has been sued recently
for various sums aggrcgating over $3.50, 600
The plaintiffs and amounts of their claims
are as follows: Herbert r. Newton, $3.50,
500; Euclid Avenue Savings and Trus,
company. s3S, 23l so: American Exchange
National bank, SOS, s0s.25; Savings Deposi,
bank, Elyrja, $4,000. Total, s267, S3957.