The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1904-12-16
MRS. CHADWICK LIVED HERE
WOMAN WHO BORROWED MILLIONS Oh
HER PACE KHoWB N THIS CITY.
Was known as Mn. De We're; Had Daugh.
ter and sOn-OId Residents Identify
Pictures OF the Now Notorious
GoodIau6ifts

Mrs. Cassie Chadwick, Of Cleveland,
O., the woman who has astounded the
financial world BY borrowing millions
on her face, ending in the wreck of
banks and leaving rich men holding
tue sack, once dwelt among as right
here in GOOdland say our old-timers.
She came here rather mysteriously in
1889 and gave none of her history, save
that she was Madame De We're; bred the
impression that she was of the upper
crust and was possessed of plenty of
money. She had a little boy named
Emil, and a little girl, whose given
name can not be remembered.
Since the story Of the De We're woman
came out in the Chadwick case, mem
DRY suggested that the De We're woman
formerly Of GOodland to some Of our
townsPeOple, and when the drawing
from the latest photograph of Mrs.
Chadwick appeared in the Kansas City
Star Tuesday, Dad" Auer was GER
tain that was our Mrs. De We're. He
would take no denial and exclaimed:
eff that's not Mrs. De We're, then
don't know my own face. She lived
here for several months IN 1889, and
came to me to rent that little house out
there, and said she would give SIS a
month for it as, she explained, she
liked to live near railroad people"
Dad Auer has a phenomenal mem
DRY, and his knowledge of the woman
is not skinny. "She lived in that little
Poole brick house over there in the east
part of town." he said, land after
ward she moved over the Thorsen store.
Later she went to Denver for a very
short time and when she returned she
brought a doctor with her who passed
for her husband. She had two little
children. boy and a girl, and I even
remember the boy; his name was Emil.
can't say as to the color of her hair,
but she had a powerful pair of black
eyes. and was fine looking, medium
sized woman of about q years. That
was about Is years ago, which makes
her age correct, forty-three.''
E. ThOrsOn has a recollection of the
De We're woman, and also says that she
lived here in 1889. She went away, he
says, and came back again with her
husband, Dr.. Gruber, a,roOt and herb
doctor. Thorsen says they left here
| broke and went to Fairbury, Neb.
Other persons here, now young men
and women, but who went to school
with the De We're girl, then about 10 OF
u years old, remember the family and
believe that Mrs. Chadwick was the
/ GOOdland woman. E. J. Scott re-
members the De We're woman but hard
Iy thinks she is the Mrs. Chadwick now
! being prosecuted in New York City.
Mrs. Chadwick is said to have gotten
away with so, OO0, 900 of borrowed
money, with assets now estimated at only
! 81 800. She duPed the officers Of the
bank IN Oberlin, o., and broke up the
bank with her worthless notes Getting
money on q plain note was like shoot
ing fish, and she bOuyed up her credit
with notes of several millions IN hel
/ favor with Andrew Carnegie's name OF
them.
The details of her doings is too in
tricate and long, but she is now in the
/ arms of the federal authority in New
York, and NJ one can predict what the
end will be. Dr.. Leroy S. Chadwick
her husband, is in Paris.