The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-12-14
TELLS AN INTERESTING STORY
Ex-Judge OIcott of New York Dis
cusses Chadwick Case.

New York, Dec. 14.-'I was a lamE
and 1 regret to say for fifteen days
believed in Mrs. Chadwiok K and was
one OF her many victims, said eX
Judge William f.. Olcott OF the law
/ tirm of which Ex-Governor 4ITank s
Black is>a meIaber.
Mrs Chadwick came TO our office
On March.2, 1904, and saw Ex-Governor
Black and myself She told the GOV
ernor that she wanted him TO so TO
1 Cleveland, that his position as former
/ governor of the state of New York
would help her to settle her affairs
and she drew FROM her reticue 81 DO
and laid it in from of Governor Black
for his expenses TO Cleveland. The
| governor concluded not to go and II
| was finally decided that | should go
and for my fee for one day in Cleve-
land she paid $500.
The object of her visit to us was
to have us relieve her from threatened
attachment against her home in Euclid
avenue, Cleveland, which was to be
levied upon by Oberlin college for
claim OF $4,000. On my arrival in
Cleveland | asked Mrs. Chadwick to
show me her securities, but under one
preteXt or another she eyaded the
proposition and did not show them to
me and flnally, after banking hours,
when | insisted upon seeing either the
securities or Iri Reynolds, she got
Reynolds on the telephone. | talked |
with him and he acknowledged to me |
having these securities in his posses
sion.
Armed with this information | saw
the lawyers OF the Oberlin college and |
Treasurer Severance and inquired |
about settlement They wanted TO |
know from me If had any assurances |
OF settlement other than what Mrs. |
Chadwick had given me.
Failed to Accomplish Anything.
Il told them that | had not. They |
replied to me: Why, you don't know
any more about this case than we do.
As far as my accomplishing any
thing with Mrs. Chadwick and the
Oberiin people was concerned my |
visit was futile and my trip to Cleye.
land ended right there"
MI. Olcott then said that before he |
left Cleveland Mrs Chadwick bor-
rowed 81 500 of him, making out a
check for that amount She promised, l
he said, that the check would be sent
or the money paid not later than March
6. but she did not do So
then became somewhat suspicious,
but not entirely So said Mr.. Olcott.
II still had confidence in her and
would have believed her to this day
were 1t not for the fact that / had
heard from Cleveland that she had
been representing about town that | :,
was Mr.. Carnegies representative /,
Letters to this effect, asking me if | T.
were really Mr.. Carnegie's representa-
tive, came to me and then lost faith |
In Mrs. Chadwick and determined to
get my money back. On March Is
went to Cleveland and demanded from
Mrs. Chadwick immediate payment of
the $1,000 | had loaned her She re-
piled: Why, | am sick woman and
cannot pay you today I told her in
reply that | came to ClevelaEJ to get
that money; to get 1t that Pay, and ;
hat ] should not leave without it: /
that II | did not get the money II1
would take legal steps against her.
She said that If | insisted she would
have the money inside of two hours.
At the expiration of two hours | re-
urned and she paid me 81 zee
Chadwick Debts in Brussels.
Brussels, Belgium, Dec lin a
utile search in this city for DIR. Leroy |
J. Chadwick the Etoile Beige asserts
nat 1t has been discovered that his | Z
vife left debts In Brussels, notably
$4,000 due to jeweler and $4,000
wing to lace merchant. Mrs. Chad.
rick while In Brussels lived expensive | 2