River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-03-16
JURY gONVICTS
MRS. chadwick
WOMAN is FOUND GUILTY ON
EACH OF SEVEN COUNTS
FOR CONSPIRACY.
BECOMES HYSTERiCAL
ON HEARING VERDICT
Maximum Penalties Allowed Are
Fourteen Years i'm Prison and a
Fine of $40, ooo-Husband to Be
Tried Next.

Tried Next.
Cleveland, o., March A. 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 was
conspiracy to defraud the United
States by plotting to procure the cer-
LITIGATION of checks on a national bank
when there were no funds in the bank
to her credit. The woman can 0e
imprisoned two years on each count, or
fined not more than $4,000 on each,
or both fined and imprisoned. Ii the
maximum penalties allowed by law are
imposed Mrs. Chadwick will be sen
fenced to IA years Imprisonment and
fined $4,000.
Jury Out Only Two Hours.
The jury reached it's verdict in two
hours. 1t left the court room at 5: 81
o'clock in the afternoon and when il
had decided the case Judge Tayler
was notified at his hotel. He set s: &c
o'clock as the time for receiving the
court five minutes before the jury
She 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. f.. 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 j. 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 con-
| firmation 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 De-
meath her, and she sank feebly into
her chair. Her head fell forward on
her hands and succession of strang-
ling sobs came from her throat
while Emil and Wing vainly sought
to comfort her.
Her counsel made a motion for a
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 Clio
bitz, 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
composure deserted her utterly. She
violently threw Off the arm of Deputy
Marshal Clobitz and that of her son
exclaiming:
LET me go! o, my God! Let me
go!"
She tottered in weakness, and Clio
bitz, together with Deputy Marshal
Minder, stepped quickly to her side.
I'm not guilty." she exclaimed; and
then, with all the energy gone from
her voice, she moaned again and
again:
20, let me go; let me go! I'm not
guilty, tell you; let me CO.
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 sofa. An attack
of hysteria followed that lasted fully
Is minutes, her sobs and cries being
audible in the hall outside. In 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
S. 900 900 Carnegie" note which was
held as security by ri Reynolds. He
may be tried alone, and Mrs. Chad
wick may be witness. Andrew Car
negie will probably be called as a wit
ness.