The news & observer., 1904-12-10
From Sumptuous Salon to
Prison Cell.
BAIL THERE WAS NONE
And Mrs. Chadwick, Weak, Wan and
Almost Painting Trod with Halt
ing Step the Stone Corridors
That Led to Her Gloomy
Cell.
(By the associated Press.)

New York, Dec. S.--Mrs. Cassie l..
Chadwick is tonight occupying one OF
the scantily furnished cells in the
Totnbs. After fruitless search all
day for bail, her attorneys gave up
the fight tonight, and Philip Carpen-
ter, her chief counsel. stood in the cor
ridor of the Federal building at 8
when United States Marshal Henkel
threw open the double doors of his
office and led the woman out on her
way to prison.
Mrs. Chadwick was wan, tired and
almost fainting. She made her way
across the hall to the elevator leaning
heavily on the marShaPS arm and that
of her son Emil. Behind them came
her nurse, Freda SWensOn and Deputy
Marshal Kennedy.
The party passed through a double
row of curious people to carriage
which was in waiting on the Broadway
side.
They were driven directly to the
Tombs. Arriving there Mrs. Chadwick
was half carried up the steps and into
the building. Warden Flynn met the
party and after the usual preliminar-
les had been attended to the woman
asked permission to have her nurse
remain with her. This was denied the
warden saving that she should have
no privilege not allowed other pris-
OnerS
Mother and Son Embrace.
Mrs. Chadwick gave handbag and
few trinketS to the nurse and whis-
pered some instructions to her son.
Marshal Henkel formally turned his
prisoner over to the warden and she
was taken TO the matron's room. She
asked to say good night to her son
tho lad CprlV rushed his
mother and wrapping his arms about
her, gave her long embrace. Then
she was led away to the inner office
where her pedigree was taken and she
was assigned a cell.
The son and nurse entered car
riage and We're driven to a hotel.
While living on couch in the United
States marshal's Office awaiting a
bondsman Mrs. Chadwick for the first
time since her name had been before
the public consented to talk for pub
lication and gave the representative OF
the Associated Press a statement in
which she denied relationship to Mrs.
York, of San Francisco, who gave out
an interview to-day telling of the ear
lier life of Mrs. Chadwick.
Again Madame Devere.
In justice to her son, Mrs. Chad
wick said she would not, make q
statement about this Madame De
We're business at the present time,
but promised that later MADAME De
Vere's whereabouts and everything in
connection with this case will be
shown
Mrs. Chadwick also told of the Wade
Park and Oberlin Bank matters. Re-
ferring to the failure of the latter in
stitution she said
Il would not like to live a minute
if l did not think / could pay these
poor people back
When asked concerning Andrew
Carnegies connection with her finan-
cial affairs, she declined absolutely 30
talk referring her interviewer to her
counsel.
This has no doubt been one of the
most momentous days in Mrs. Chad
wicks hisctory. 1t commenced with
her early departure from her hotel for
the Federal building and ended with
her Incarceration in the Tombs.
Vain Hunt fO Bail.
In the interval she has been arraign-
ed before United States Commissioner
Shields and held in $4,000 bail which
she was unable to furnish. All day
long lawyers representing her interests
had sought in every quarter for some
one owning real estate in Manhattan
who would sign her bond and the mar
shall had, out of sympathy for the wo-
man kept her in his office hours after
enieavors of the lawyers were unsuc-
cessful rendering her Imprisonment
necessary.
To add to her cup of woe, it was
learned tonight that charge of for
gerry would very likely be made
against the woman in Ohio, based on
the Carnegie notes and other papers
given as securities for loans.
Efforts to get bail will continue to-
morrow although Mrs. Chadwick ex-
pressed the desire tonight to go to
Cleveland as soon as possible. She
said she would go there voluntarily,
were it not for the contrary advice
of counsel.
A Pathtic Scene.
Mrs. Chadwick dined at seven
o'clock tonight in Marshal Henkefs
office under conditions in strange con-
trast to the manner in which she lived
at the New York hotels. Her dinner
consisted of an orange, a ham sand
wich and a piece of cake. brought to
her by her son, from Broadway
lunch counter. She lay on a hard
leather couch in a room filled with
desks, chairs and file cases A deputy
marshal stood watch while her nurse
took the meagre lunch from paper
bag and peeled the orange. Emil sat
by in silence and ate few bites of d
sandwich, and the nurse dried her
tears long enough to taste luncheon
counter fare.
The three unfortunates had nothing
to say TO each other. Occasionally
Mrs. Chadwick sobbed and the faith
full nurse leaned over her mistress and
smoothed the gray hair. Mrs. Chad
wiclx's face was much infiamed. hel
eyes were red ana her hands trembled
violently and she pushed away the re.
mains of the food and motioned Freda
to give her a pile of evening papers
which lay on a chair near the couch
She picked the papers up one by one
and between sobs gave the first page:
a hasty glance. After she had run
through the lot she selected one which