The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-06

among lawyers In this city for a good many years that Mrs. Chadwick was a dangerous woman to have dealings with. Perhaps it would have been a good deal better for everybody if all these facts that are now being brought to- light had been made public years ago, but I sup pose everybody felt alike about it, and when they got out of their difficulties were perfectly willing to keep quiet and say nothing about it."
 Knew Her to Be Mme. De We're.
 Lawyer John A Smith. of Smith & Taft, says he forced Mrs. Chadwick to repay big loan by simply showing her a photograph of Mime. De We're taken in the Ohio penitentary
 Mrs. Chadwick has the greatest nerve of any woman I ever met in my life" said MT. Smith land she never gave a better exhibition of 1t than she gave in New York yesterday when she declared that she knew nothing about Mime. De We're Since it has become known that I had told what I knew or her dozen lawyers have been to my office and told me things as strange and unbelievable as I have told. I'll bet you that she'll never deny to me that she was Mime. De We're"
 The Chadwick family, Into which this woman married, while never figuring
 
 city, Is yet one of the oldest and most esteemed pr. Chadwick has been mar ried twice, his first wife having died some years before he took the present one to hls home. Her coming to the fam fly home was most mysterious. At first nobody seemed to have heard Of her untH the doctor introduced her to the house. hold as his wife But 1t seemed to be the desire of the second Mrs. Chadwick to talx rf n the social life or the city, and to this end invitations were sent out to all the old friends of the Chadwick family. The old house was newly decorated and furnished on a gaudy and extravagant scale.
 Women Avoided Her.
 The first two or three parties went off very successfully, although the richness and splendor of the gowns and jewels worn by the doctors new wife were little bit more than these staid old folks had been accustomed to. Very soon, however, people began to ask one another where they had seen Mrs. Chadwick be- fore Some of them identified her in vague manner, but only sufficiently to decide that they did not care to become too friendly with her; and so their so- cial intercourse gradually grew less ana less. until it became nothing more than
  cool nod when they met on the street.
 It was not very long before Dr. Chad wick and his wife went away from the city to remain several months. Had Dr. Chadwieks practice been of the fash ionable sort, this absence would have been more noticed, but he had never been a fashionable doctor; his practice was almost entirely confined to the Bo- |Ahemians and other foreign classes who hive on the West Side. When he left for Europe a year ago 1t was not much remarked, but those who recall the cir cumstances of his going say now that 1t was very evident that some such ex- posture as has now occurred was immi- nent at that time.
 Exposure Was Imminent.
 A woman who knew Dr. Chadwick 8 first wife says that just about a year ago his daughter made a round of visits to her mothers most intimate friends and told each one that she was going away.
 We may be gone month or two" she said land we may be gone year or two, and we may never return"
 Recalling this. the Worlds informant said: I've are now all thoroughly con- vinced that both Dr. Chadwick and hls daughter were aware of what his wife had been doing. Evidently exposure was right at hand and there seemed to be no way to avoid 1t. After they had gone Mrs. Chadwick, with her wonderful in- genuity, must have found some way to ward it off.