The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-13
He WAS A LAMB.
Gov. Frank s. Blacks Law
Partner Was Deceived
By Mrs. ChadWick's Stories of
Her Great Wealth.
HELOANED HER MONEY
Made a SpecialTrip to Cleveland
to Recover 1t.
Hints That She Told Him the
Carnegie Child Story.

New Ork, Dec. Isl was laInD
and I regret to say that for is days 1
believed in Mrs. Chadwick and was one
of her many Victims" said ex-Judge
William K. Olcott, of a law firm of
which Ex-Governor Frank S. Black is
member. today. MY connection and
the firms connection with Mrs. Chad
wick" he continued. "came about in
this way. Mrs. Chadwick came to
our office on March 2, 1904, and saw ex-
Governor Black and myself. She told
the governor that she wanted him to go
to Cleveland; that his position as for
mer governor of the state of New York
would help her to settle her affairs
and she drew from her reticule 81, 900
and laid it in front of Governor Black,
for his expenses to Cleveland. The gov
ernor concluded not to go and it was
finally decided that I should go and
for my fee for one day in Cleveland she
paid $500.
1.-The object of her visit to us was to
have us relieve her from threatened at
tachInent against her home in Euclid
avenue, Cleveland, which was to be
levied upon by Oberlin college for a,
claim of $4,000. This claim, I under
stood, was later paid but not through
this firms auspices.
Mrs. Chadwick in that slow impress
sive manner of hers said to Governor
Black and me: L am a very rich wo-
man. have $4,000, 900 in trust fund
I'VE were naturally impressed. In
order to make good her statement she
produced Iri Reynolds certificate for
the $4,000 900 of securities held by him.
This naturally led us to believe that
the woman spoke the truth.
Il had to admit the soft Impeachment.
AS far my accomplishing anything
with Mrs. Chadwick and the Oberlin
people was concerned my visit was fu-
tile and my trip to Cleveland ended
right there
Mr Olcott then said that before he
left Cleveland, Mrs. Chadwick borrow
ed 81, 500 of him, making out a check for
that amount. She promised, he said,
that the check would be sent or the
money paid not later than March 6,
but she did not do SO.
Il then became somewhat suspicious
OIcott 'I had still confidence in her
and I went to Cleveland on that night,
on the night of March 8, and re-
manned there all day March 4, return
ing on March 5. On my arrival in
Cleveland L asked Mrs. Chadwick to
show me her securities, but under one
pretext another she evaded the
proposition and did not show them to
me. Her excuse at the time was that
Iri Reynolds was out of town, and
finally after banking hours, when l
insisted upon seeing either the securities
or Iri Reynolds, she got Reynolds on
L
he acknowledge to me having these
securities in his possession. At that
time L believed that they were all
right
the lawyers of the Oberlin college and
Treasurer Severance and inquired
about a settlement. They wanted to
know from me if 1 had any assurances
Chadwick had given me. 1 told them
that I had not. They replied to me:
Why, you don't know any more about
this case than we do
''I would probably have believed her
to this day were it not for the fact
that L had heard from Cleveland that
she had been representing it about
town that l was Mr.. Carnegfe's repre-
sentative. Letters to this effect came
to me and then 1 lost faith in Mrs.
Chadwick and determined to get my
money back. On March Is, I went to
Cleveland and demanded from Mrs.
Chadwick immediate payment of the
$500 had loaned her. She replied:
why, I am a sick woman and 1 can
not pay you today. told her in reply
that 1 came to Cleveland to get that
money; that if 1 did not get the money
would take legal steps against her.
She said that if I insisted she would
have the money inside of two hours.
'At the expiration of two hours I re-
turned and she paid me 81, 500. That
terminated this firms connection with
Mrs. Chadwick. Since that time Mrs.
Chadwick has made repeated efforts to
again retain this firm to help her out
of her difficulties but we have always
refused to have anything more to do
with her. In spite of these repeated re-
fusals on our part Mrs. Chadwick per-
sisted in her efforts to secure the firms
assistance and even on the day of the
arrest of Mrs. Chadwick she sent her
lawyer Edmund w. Powers, to me to
retain US, but we refused. And even no
later than yesterday we were again
asked to be her counsel and as usual
we refused.
It can not reveal the secrets of my
client, but I want to say that she gave
me reasons for the inception of the
trust fund which have not yet been told
which impressed both Governor Black
and myself and which 1 am not at lib
erty to disclose
Mrs. Chadwick was in cheerful spirits
today and talked somewhat freely in
the Tombs. She said that it is her posi-
tive determination to go back to
Cleveland today but before she made
the formal announcement she would
confer with her lawyer, Philip Carpen-
ter.
Mrs. Chadwick did not appear in the
least disturbed at the outcome of the
handing down of two indictments by
the grand jury of Cuyahoga county.
Lawyer Powers announced later, how
ever that all intention of securing bail
for Mrs. Chadwick had been abandoned
in view of yesterdays indictment in
Ohio.
At the present time the attention of
those most interested in the case is di-
rected to Pittsburg where some interest
ing developments are anticipated. It
is more than hinted that if the full
facts are ever known it will be found
that some of the paper negotiated by
Mrs. Chadwick is lying in the strong
boxes of PittSburg financial men. 1t is
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