River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-29

was seized with what seemed to be
hemorrhage of the 1ungs-a clever
counterfeit, however-but she succeed
ed in enlisting the sympathy OF a
number of people. She explained that
she was wealthy woman returning
to her home in Cleveland, had become
Unexpectedly embarrassed, and was
successful in obtaining number OF
small loans when the Erie people
wrote for the return Of the money
they received queerly written note
that the woman who had imposed
upon them was dead. In 1885 Eliza
beth Bigley appeared again in Cleve-
land, under the name of Nine. La
Rose. She had sign in her window
advertising herself as a clairvoyant
Again she disappeared and it was
learned she had married farmer
named j. r. Scott in Trumbull coun-
ty. She was divorced from Scott in
a few months and Scott was minus his
farm. In 1886 she returned to Cleye-
land third time. 1t was in this year
that the boy now with Mrs. Chadwick
and known as Emil Hoover was born.
Her Career in Toledo.
There is break of two years in the
history, during which the woman left
Cleveland. In 1890 she turned up at
Toledo as Nine. Devere. At Toledo
her career was as dramatic as it was
spectacular. Fifteen years ago she
was familiar figure. She could be
seen In the finest of carriages driving
about the city, and her entertainments
were known as elaborate, the cost of
flowers alone being high. Her past
history was kept secret, yet by de-
grees it developed that she was born
in Woodstock, Can, and was the
daughter of Mrs. Mary Ann Bigley.
She began to secure large sums of
money from various men. It is assert
ed that prominent doctor gave up all
and was completely under her control.
He is to-day physical wreck A
bank president, since dead, was de-
ceived, and how much he loaned her
will never be learned. Two express
officials and grain merchant are said
to have been caught for large sums.
One of the stories told by Nine. Devere
in Toledo was that of her marriage
to wealthy gentleman near Manches-
ter, England, who was killed shortly
after in runaway, and from whose
estate she received an annual income
of $1,000.
Spends Money Lavishly.
For years Mrs. DR.. Leroy S. Chad
wick's lavish expenditure of money has
been the subject of comment in Cleve-
land There is not g store in Cleveland
of any prominence with which Mrs.
Chadwick has not had dealings. At
some of them she has spent thousands
and thousands of dollars, and has paid
spot cash. She tried no trickery with
them when she wanted anything. No
person with millions at his command
ever bought with more lavish hand
than did Mrs. Chadwick, and when she
bought she had the money to pay for
it. She juggled with no securities, gen
uine or otherwise, when she made her
purchases in the Cleveland stores. The
cash with which she paid probably
came to her through her ability to
make banks and bankers think she was
a person to whom a loan, no matter
how large, would be a good business
investment, but when she dealt with
the grocer, the butcher, the jeweler, or
the house furnisher she paid him in
good coin of the realm, and paid him
in enormous sums. There is not a
store in town that has not its story to
tell.
Buys Gems by the Tray.
Most persons when they invest in
diamonds buy them singly, or in ones
or twos at the most; not so Mrs. Chad
wick. One of her favorite pastimes was
to walk into store and ask to see
diamond rings. 1t might be that the
clerk would place before her one Or
more trays Of the baubles. "These look
NICE" she would say, indicating with
her finger an entire row of gems. "I
think you may give me those" And so