The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-13

todian of this last package Me. Rey-
nolds says Mrs. Chadwick came to the
bank one afternoon with a package she
said contained Steel bonds. There was
as many as you could carry in your
two arms" he said. 'She left them in
the vault and when she returned from
Europe she took them away, saying she
had been advised to put such a vast
amount of valuable paper in better
vault" Mr.. Reynolds understood she
was to take them to New York or
Pittsburg.
At one time he said she made a writ
ten statement to his committee that she
had over millions in bonds in the safe
ty deposit vault in Wade Park bank.
Repeated effor1s on Mr.. Key 11ol C~F par
wick met with excuse and delay. He was
put off time after time, yet did not lose
May H. 1904 when he went to New York
expecting to settle the entire affair, Mrs.
Chadwick was in consultation with a
number of lawyers and after waiting two
days he returned to Cleveland without
seeing her.
He had read the trust agreement, but
had never seen the signature. Mrs. Chad
wick had told him the Original was IN the the
everything would be paid, up to a week
ago, and had suspicion of anything
ton brought his suit. Then his attorney,
Mr.. Carver of Boston, called at the Wade
Park bank and said he understood he held
some steel securities of Mrs. Chadwick
and showed him a paper assigning all her
right and title In Reynolds hOlQlngS
Several notes of $4,000 each, payable to
DR.. Chadwick, had been taken up by Mr..
Reynolds. He declared they were payable
out of any moneys that might have been
on credit to Mrs. Chadwick in the First
National bank of Cleveland August 20.
Some of these were paid and in February
or March, 1904, money was placed to her
credit in this bank. Mr.. Reynolds thought
the money came from the east to pay
these and felt assured that what he held
was all right.
He was further assured when Judge Oh
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was introduced to him over the telephone
by Mrs. Chadwick. Judge Olcott assured
from her unenviable position. He knew
Judge Olcott was here because was as
sured by a check for $1,000 signed by Judge
OIcott he received the next day.
He last saw her November 10. She de-
sired to go east and had no money. He
cashed a check on the Lincoln Trust COM
marked mari Account closed" He took it out
it in his possession. He brought the New
ton debt to her attention and advised her
the whole AFFAIR and he thought she went
east to see Andrew Carnegie.
MI. Reynolds came away from New York
he says because he did not have money
enough to stay there two hours She has
fooled me, and many smarter men than
bodys hen WITH SfG FAINT ots Smile as
though the humor appealed to him De
Mrote 1 t me to ask if Needed help bee
cause of the run on the bank"
Still another incident was detailed by
the witness. when Mrs. Chadwick was in
Europe he said. she wrote that pr.
Chadwick was in the hospital seriously i'll,
the daughter was also i'll and she was in
sore distress. Emil came home to save
expenses and here he was taken by ty-
phoid fever. She cabled me that she sha
no money and I sent her $4,000. The
shock of Emirs illness made her seriously
ill and when she arrived here she was
thought to be dying. She then told me
where. if anything happened to her, !
would find letter to Mr.. Carnegie and
he would settle all her Indebtedness"
The witness had seen no other notes
but had seen a check which was sent to
his house when he was i'll. It was for
$50 900 and had Andrew Carnegie's name
signed to it. Whether any money was
ever procured on it he did not know.
AS to the value of Mrs. Chadwick
household fittings, Mr.. Reynolds thought
they might be worth about S2ooOoo. He
said he took a chattel mortgage about
two years ago but had never recovered it.
This concluded the examination of Mr..
Reynolds and the hearing was put over
until Saturday for the presence Of fur
are Mrs. Chadwick and her son Emil. If
they are not in this city by that time the
examination will be put over still further.