The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-08
.CHADW,LK l ARRESTED Faip, a in Her Hotel
 Room. AFFIDAVIT SWORN OUT Pap.rS Served in Her B0udoir
 by Officers. District Attorney Burnett swore Out Warrants Charging Aiding Em- bessIement in CIeveland--
 Not Taken to Jail.

Cleveland. O., Dec. Tt was with a great sigh of relief that United States District Attorney Sullivan re- ceived the Associated Press bulletin this afternoon announcing Mrs. Chad wick's arrest. He appeared before the waiting newspaper men a moment later with the news and then calling them into his private office gave them the particulars of the way the case had been handled for the last week.
 Mrs. Chadwick's arrest has been under contemplation for the last week. he said. T was going to cause her arrest Sunday when the warrants for Beckwith and Spear were sworn out, but thought it well to go slow in tho matter and delayed action until Tues day evening. At 2 o'clock last night the United States Marshal appeared be- fore United States Commissioner Brough and swore to an affidavit charg- ing Mrs. Chadwick with aiding and abetting in the misapplication of the funds of national bank. It was specifically stated in the afi1davit that Mrs. Chadwick had aided President Beckwith and Cashier Spear of the Citizens National Bank of Oberlln. Ohio in the misappropriation of $12.500 on October 26. 1903 at which time the woman received from Cashier Spear a certified check for the amount stated.
 The affidavit was sent in the mail by special delivery to United States Dis- trict Attorney Burnett of New York with instructions to issue warrant upon it and arrest the woman forth with. At 4 p. m. today I received a message from Burnett that the letter had not been received. then became fearful that the letter might have been lost or miscarried and then sent for Walter D. Weals. another United States Commissioner of this district. When he arrived I went through the same process as in Toledo last night. swear ing to the same, affidavit and dispatch- ing 1t forthwith by special delivery to New York. The letter. had been mailed half an hour when Ireceived another telegram from General Burnett stating that the papers had been received and the war rant issued. A few minutes later came the announcement by the Associated Press that the woman had been ar rested. At my request the Attorney General caused secret service officers to be placed on guard at the Holland Hotel with instructions not to let her get out of their sight for a minute. If this espionage had not been maintained she probably would have escaped us. do not know what the New York au- thorities will do with Mrs. Chadwick tonight. but tomorrow she will be ar raigned before a United States Com missioner and will be asked to plead. She can either ask for a preliminary | hearing or waive any examination and | be bound over to the action of the | United States grand jury which meets | the first Tuesday in February in Cleve- | land. She may ask for a continuance of the preliminary hearing which may thus be delayed for some weeks. If 1 she cannot give bail she will be brought to Cleveland and lodged in jail. If she gives bail after waiving examination or after the preliminary hearing is over. | she will be free to 10 where she l pleases until the grand jury passes l upon the case.
 Bail Not Fixed.
 T do not know what the amount of | bail will be fixed at. The commits sioner will determine that with the recommendation of the district attor- ney. I do not know what amount will recommend. In the case of Beck with and Spear the amount was fixed at $1o.o0o. I am not quite sure as to l the witnesses l will summon in the case. I can only name one at present, l This person will be Irving Belford. now clerk of the United States Court for | the northern district of Ohio who in 1896 in Toledo defended Joseph Lamb. who was arrested with Mime. De We're for forging $4o,ooO worth of notes. Lemb being acquitted on the ground 1 t he was held in the womans power did not knowingly commit a crime.
 I. Belford will be asked to identify i fs. Chadwick as Mime. De We're, which l he declares he can do.
 "As to the rest of the case which
 we have prepared. I cannot talk at | present. Tfse notes signed with the
 name of Andrew Carnegie will enter | into 1t. suppose and we may try to | prove forgery. but I think we can go | ahead with the case without the ele-
 ment of forgery being proved. As to
 whether forgery can be proved. I am
 not now prepared to state"
 l Regarding the arrest of Mrs. Chad
 wick by the federal officials receiver | of the Chadwick property Nathan Loeser said that 1t need not necessarily | interfere with the bankruptcy proceed | ings. He said that she can be pro-
 ceeded against in bankruptcy and her | assets distributed among her creditors