Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-29
ALLEGED FORCER CONE.
Hrs. Jessie Leroy Chadwick Said to
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NEW YORK, Nov 29- Mrs. Jessie Leroy Chadwick of Cleveland. defend ant in suit brought against her by Herbert B. Newton. a Boston business man, for the recovery of $19O,OO0 lent in proInissory notes which he declares, were given under false representation, and who in personal appearance is said to resemble the convicted forger, Lydia Devere. has left the Holland House here. in which she had for many months been regular and an honored guest. It is said that Mrs Chadwick claimed to have deposited securities to the value of S5,0OO.000.
 To Mrs Chadwick is ascribed the failure of the Citizens National bank of Oberlin, o.
 The assertion is made that the bank loaned Mrs. Chadwick at least $1OO, GOO and that when the obligations, coming due, were not paid rumors of this state of affairs brought about run that closed the banks doors.
 According to a lawyer in this city, Mrs. Chadwick urged him to get loan of $2OO 900 for her with which to pay off a debt in Pittsburg. No deal was made
 The circumstances of her sudden de parture presented all the clements of the dramatic Up to Saturday evening Mrs. Chadwick had been b1issfully una ware of the storm that was about to break over her head, even though she knew that MT. Newton had entered suit against her for the recovery of his money and that the western newspa- pers were hot on trail of coincidences which seemed to suggest connection with Lydia Devere, who in 1891 was sentenced to nine years imprisonment n< the state penitentiary of Ohio and was subsequently pardoned in 1893 by Governor Mckinley.
 -- The striking likeness between Mrs Chadwick and the Devere woman fur ther accentuated the coincidence.
 The court issued subpoenas for both Mrs. Chadwick and Fri Reynolds. sec retary and treasurer of the Wade Park Banking company.
 MT. Reynolds has declared that he did not know whose name was signed to the alleged note for $500, GOO pay able to Mrs. Chadwick, that he was not holding any such note among the se- curities in his possession belonging to Mrs. Chadwick and that he did not even know of any such note being in existence
 He said he did not believe there was such note and said there were no dia- monds or other jewels in his possession among the securities he holds for Mrs Chadwick.
 According to Cleveland paper. Mrs Chadwick has masqueraded at different times under the aliases of Mme. Devere. Lydia D. Scott, Mme. Clingao, Mrs. Elizabeth, Bigley and Mrs. Dr. Hoover.
 Under these names, it is alleged, she operated as a spiritualist medium, moving mysteriously from town to town, leaving trail of forgeries in her wake. She told fortunes, 1t is charged, borrowed money, engaged in great financial transactions with others as packers and was always plentifully supplied with money.
 It was in 1897 that Dr. Leroy Chad wick, one of Cleveland's most distin- guished physicians, returned to that city with the wife he had married in Canada.
 No question as to her antecedents was ever asked in Cleveland, as the fact that she was the wife of Dr. Chad enough to assure her welcome in the most exclusive social circles in the city.