Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-12-16
NOTORIOUS MRS. CHADWICK
SHE WORKED EAsTERN BANKERS
FOR LARGE SUMS OF MONEY.
Claims Assresatins ss1s.ooo Are Now
Being Pressed Against American
Queen Of Frenzied Finance -Attor.
ney Admits She Has Borrowed at
Least a Million DolIars-ls in Jail.

/ 6SAoe Mtttou 6OHutS-tS III Safs
The names of Mrs. Cassie Chadwick,
who seems to have worked" eastern
bank presidents for sums totalling a
million dollars, giving worthless paper
as security, have been many.
She began life on little Ontario
farm at Elizabeth Bigley. Afterwards
she was known as Louise Bigley, then
as Mrs. G. L. Hoover, Lizzie Hoover,
Mary Hoover, Nine. Rosa, Nine. De-
we're, Mrs. Wallace 8. Springsteen,
Mrs. j. R. Scott. Lydia Scott, Lydia
Clingan, and last or all, Mrs. Leroy
D. Chadwick.
Here are some of the statements she
has given out in order to secure loans.
They are only samples:
| That she was the heiress of mil
lions of dollars and feared that unless
a suit was settled without publicity
the rich uncle" in New York would
cut her off without cent.
That her husband was i'll at Carls-
bad, had sent for money, and that the
| unfortunate Endorsement of a Cleve-
llander's note left her temporarily with
out funds.
That an uncle, the father of an imbe-
Icile son, at death left fortune in
Andrew Carnegie's trust to fall to her
at the sons death.
That at death the rich uncle had left
Iher $500, but money was needed to
secure absolute possession of the for
tune.
/ That the wealthy father of her lille
Ultimate child had settled upon him
bonds and securities worth $5,000,0 900
/ There is no means of knowing how
much money she has borrowed by tell
ling the several tales referred to. But
here is a list of the debts which are
being pressed for settlement at the
present time:
| H., D. Newton, Brookline, Mass.
l$190000.
Citizens National bank, Oberlin, o..
l$240, 900.
/ G. T. Beckwith, president of the Cit
liens National bank at Oberlin, o.
/ NpCloOnd tOdIJ !, Plu1yVuU. 4
American Exchange National bank
Cleveland, o., $4,000.
Euclid Avenue Savings and Trust
company, Cleveland, $38,0O0..
Savings Deposit bank, Elyria, D.
$4,000.
| ]. D. Chadwick. Franklin, Pa, $4,000
These claims foot up a total Of
$618,80O. There may be many more
Mrs. Chadwick's attorney admits she
owes a million dollars, and perhaps
more. All this Indebtedness is based
on mysterious security-so mysterious
/ that bankers who have seen it declare
they would rather die than describe it
Mrs. Chadwick, whose mysterious
power to obtain loans from eastern
bankers for enormous amounts, has
dazen the financial world, conjured
with the name of Andrew Carnegie In
many details her methods tally with
those of the notorious Humbert family
LOT Paris, which borrowed millions on
the hypothesis that sealed safe con.
tanned securities representing a vast
sum, when in reality the safe was
practically empty. By cunningly en-
listing the sympathy of clergymen, at.
torneys and other influential men, at
the same time allowing the impression
to go forth that the Wade Park bank
held securities aggregating millions,
she was able to get sums of money
that are already known to reach a
million dollars. To make 1t an OBJ
ject for her banker dupes to accom-
modate her, she offered tremendous
bonuses, paying to the personal ac-
counts of the bank presidents. The
alleged securities held by Iri Reynolds,
an agent who also appears to nave
been duped, aggregate between $500
100000 and $13,00O,000. ANDREW Car
lnegie's name is attached to them, and
another document found purports to
be trust agreement which makes
Carnegie the holder of over $4,000
600 worth OF property owned by Mrs.
Chadwick. Every one Of these secu-
rites, the duped bankers believe, are