The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-03-16
MRS. CHADWICK IS
FOUND GUILTY
CONVICTED ON EACH OF SEVEN
COUNTS FOR CONSPIRACY.
JURY OUT ONLY TWO HOURS
Woman Grows Hysterical on Hearing
Verdict - May b. Sentenced to
Long Prison Term and
Fine of $4,000.

Cleveland, o., March 13.-Mrs. Cas-
sic l.. Chadwick Saturday night was
found guilty on every count on which
the jury was allowed to judge her
seven in all. The general charge vas
conspiracy to defraud the United
States by plotting to procure the Ger
LITIGATION OF checks on a national bank
when there were no funds in the bank
to her credit. The woman a be
imprisoned two years on each count, or
fined not more tnan $4,000 on each,
or both fined and imprisoned. If the
maximum penalties allowed by law are
imposed Mrs. Chadwick will be SEN
fenced to IA years imprisonment and
fnSd $4,000.
Jury Out Only Two Hours.
The Jury reached it's verdict in two
hours. 1t left the court room at 1888
o'clock in the afternoon and when it
had decided the case Judge Tayler
vas notified at his hotel. He set $3.50
o'clock as the time for receiving the
finding. Mrs. Chadwick came into
court five minutes before the jury.
Size was accompanied by her son, Emil
Hoover, and two trained nurses. She
sank into the seat she has occupied
during the trial and rested her face in
the palm of her right hand-a position
she held almost constantly throughout
the session of court,
Verdict of Guilty.
Mrs. Chadwick could not hear the
words of Clerk w. +. Carleton as he
read the verdict of the jury, which
had been out since $3.50 in the after
noon. After the reading was completed
Judge Francis ]. Wing, her attorney,
turned to her and announced the re-
suit. Just one word told the story:
Guilty" During the reading she
leaned upon the arm Of her son, Emil
Hoover Chadwick. When Judge Wing.
her counsel, told her the result she
turned half around to look at Hoover,
behind her, and, reading there a con
frmation Of the words of Wing, she
flushed deeply and raised her hand in
a bewildered fashion to her head. Sud-
denly her legs seemed to give way be-
meath her, and she sank feebly into
her chair. Her head fell forward on
her hands and a succession of strang-
ling sobs came from her throat,
while Emil and Wing vainly sought
to comfort heE
Her counsel made q motion for q
new trial. The motion will be argued
next week. Mrs. Chadwick soon COM
posed herself, raised her head, wiped
her eyes, and rose to her feet with
an air Of bidding defiance to all the
world.
Grows Hysterical.
Attended by Deputy Marshal Clo-
bisz, Hoover and Judge Wing, she
walked steadily to the hallway to take
the elevator. 1t was not there, and
in the slight delay Mrs, Chadwick's
composure deserted ner utterly. She
violently threw off the arm of Deputy
Marshal Clobitz and that of her son
e~Xclaiming:
Let me go! b. my God! Let ME
| got"
She tottered in weakness, and Clo-
bitz, together with Deputy Marshal
Mlnder, stepped quickly to her side.
Pm mo- guilty" she exclaimed; and
then, with all the ener gone from
her voice, she moaned again and
again:
20, let me so; let me o! I'm not
guilty, | tell you; let me go"
Suddenly she fell against Wing. He
| caught her by the shoulders and kept
her from falling until Deputy Marshal
Minder came up on the other side. To-
gether the two men lifted her bodily
and bore her into the elevator, which
descended one floor, and she was taken,
half walking and half carried, into the
Office of United States Marshal Chand-
Ter and placed upon a sofa. An attack
of hysteria followed that lasted fully
Is minutes, her sobs and cries being
audible in the hall outside. In a half
hour later she was taken to the Jail,
where she tainted.
Husband to Be Tried Next.
The next step in the Chadwick case
will doubtless be the trial of DR.. Leroy
S. Chadwick, Mrs. Chadwick's husband,
in common pleas court on the indict-
ment in which he and his wife are
jointly charged with the forgery Of the
$5,0 900 Carnegie" note which was
held as security by Iri Reynolds. He
may be tried alone, and Mrs. Chad
wax may be- a witness. Andrew Car
negie will probably be called as a wit