The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-03-06

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fGLEyELAND, 81 March Mrs.
Cassie chadwicK, alias mrs. 4. u:
Hoover alias Mrs! w. s. Spring.
:itden3 alias Alice nj. Bestedo,.. alias
Iazie. alias aame:. La Rose; alias
Mme. Perkins, aiihs Mrs. Wallace,
alas Lylla DegeTe, alias Nine. De.
yere mas RI lzabethl 5Bigley, alias Ly.
ala q. Scott, 4 alias Lydia cllngao,
alias Mrs NJ Bfgley, alias anything else
MS the Ticissltudes other career as an
turess might require, has lived
IN hers years ofl life like no other
That was eyer lived in fiction or out
6f IL. 5la9;( 81
From It's beginning in a Canadian
iiamlet through q maze 3 Of village
5eanGaIs and q notorious career in
leland thence To a career Of crime,
IN 70 ledo,s Ohio, whence detection
sent her 81 convict to the Columbus.
Ohio penitentlary, soon to a,life OF
Ease AZ Cleveland and again soon to
mansion OF mystery on aristocratlc
Euclid avenue itself, where detection
again overwhelmed her, her life has
been one that no writer OF fiction
would have attributed TO creature
~ Ina inatioh. Yet she IS a real
woman ms many a once honored man
and once shrewd banker know only
too well X
Her early life was simple. Her
iather was "a farmer at Eastwood, a
ess;roads -four miles east Of Wood.
stock Ontario: There she was born
II S57 on her fathers farm, one
VI stls eight Children of Daniel Big.
iss. The six daughters and two sons
sere schooled and reared alike. In
soung manhood Elizabeth depart
sd from the way OF life she had been
taught. Her brothers and sisters
grew into honest men and women and
50 completely did her way of life es.
range her from them that they not
gnly iisowned $her%but latterly fatty
denied q any knowledge Of relationship
with her: 5s
IN oodstock Elizabeth Bigley,
tanng her early lessons In mischief
became q common person, as the law
ofiieers there bear witness. Her tai.
stst for forgery developed early.
When she was q years old, she was
arrested ION an Indictment charging
forgery. Her trial in 1879 was a sen.
:satiMtfn|t The! Canadian town. Herlaw.
ysrs did not even claim that she had
tiot committed the crime. Her only
defense was that she was insane when
she committed It The jury was per.
suaded to this view, acquitted her
With q Special finding explaining the
Eerdict on the basis OF insanity.
TheEes Is a brief hiatus here in the
record OF her life. ni;1SS2, three
ssenrs after her sacqulttal in Canada
she appeared in Cleveland under the
nnule 81 Mrs; Lydia Bigley. She be-
4 gan RlborrpT wing money promiscuously.
she gave mortgages under fictitious
MINES on her sisters furniture. This
sot her into law suits with her broth.
erln;laY: . October 1, 1882, she was
married ne t +, DR.. w S. sprlngsteen.
She edFher operations under
nanies Of MazieS,
latar y was reported to friends
that 81 dc had passed peacefully
and had been buried in Can.
ada. Re
scnsple .iot months after this de.
mise the Woman appeared in Cleve-
land again as the Keeper of clair.
s.uyant resort In the fall Of 1883, DR..
Spring teenS got a divorce from her on
ground Of sinddelity. After another
4 ssp On. her record she appeared as
Mrs: lydia D. q Scott and here had a
baby boy In 1857 she was found in
~ oiedo as Madame Lydia Devere, a
seiairyo yants She hat varied career.
Joseph Lamb was Toledo agent for
an 9pressi company. He had his po-
siuon, his business reputation, the es.
TEEN OF his neighbors. the title TO his