The Bourbon news., 1904-12-16

taken to Jail. She is held in cell Ia
in the woman's department OF the jail.
and her palatial residence on Euclid
avenue, of which the furnishings alone
are valued at $2OO, 600, is occupied by
her maid
Her courage held to the last, but
her body failed her and when she had
mounted the three flights of stairs
leading to the tier of cells, where she
is to remain, she collapsed utterly and
fell in a dead faint But for the aid
of Deputy United States Marshals
Kumb and Kelker, who held her UP
and almost carried her along as she
mounted the stairs, she never would
Breathless, pale and staggering, she
was barely able to reach chair, as
the steel door of the wOman's corridor
swung open to receive her. She sank
feebly into a chair, her head fell back
ward, and but for the marshais she
would have rolled to the floor. Water
was quickly brought to her, and in a
lew S0COuUS lONlNSQ duQ Wds
again woman of business.
Her first request was that her law.
yer, Sheldon @. Kerruish, be sent for,
and she was soon engaged in con.
ference with him concerning her de-
fenses There is small chance, that she
will be able to leave the Jail before
her trial. There are now seven in
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charges having been laid against her
in the federal court Wednesday after
noon. 1t would require surety to the
amount of at least 100000 to give
her freedom, and there is nobody in
Cleveland who will furnish that
amount for her. She has herself nc
idea of giving bail and will remain in
jail She has the best cell in the
place, but it is not a nice cell, nor is
the county Jail of Cuyahoga county
nice Jail even as jails go, but it is the
best there is and there she must re-
main.
The federal indictments against Mrs.
Chadwick are five in number, three of
them charge her with aiding and abet-
ting officers of a national bank to de-
fraud the institution, and two charge
her with conspiring against the United
States. Of the four indictments
against President Beckwith, of the
Oberlin bank, two charge him with
misapplication of funds of national
bank; one with conspiracy to commit
an offense against the United States,
and one with certifying checks when
no funds were on hand. The indict-
ments against Cashier Spear are the
same as those against President Beck
with
The first witness before the grand
jury was United States Marshal Chan
dler, who presented to the jury the
sworn statement of President Beck
with This is the document which has
been called the confession" of Beck
with. 1t set forth, in effect, that there
were two notes of $500,000 each, both
signed in the name of Andrew Car
negie, and that Mrs. Chadwick declar-
ed positively, both to him and to Cash
| ier Spear, that she personally saw, Mr..
Carnegie sign his name to both notes.
| 1t was also set forth in the state
ment that a New York attorney, who
| claimed to be a representative of An
drew Carnegie, had declared to Beck
with in Oberlin that the notes were
genuine The endorsement of the
notes by Beckwith and Spear was ad-
mitted, but the statement declared
neither of them had any idea that
they were to be used in the manner in
which Mrs. Chadwick handled them.
Mr. Beckwith's statement declared
that they received from Iri Reynolds
information to the effect that every
thing was all right" and that a large
amount of good securities belonging to
Mrs. Chadwick were held by the Wade
Park bank. This encouraged him to
make loans to Mrs. Chadwick
The second witness was T. K Whit
ney, township treasurer of Oberlin.
James R. Severance, treasurer of Ober.
| lin college, narrated the facts connect
ed with loans made to Mrs. Chadwick
by the college. and told him the mon
ey had been repaid Cashier Spear
and ]. E. Barrett, of Wooster, were
other witnesses The hearing con-
sumed all of the morning and was fin
ished shortly before 2 o'clock in the
afternoon, after the jury had been 80
minutes in session after luncheon.