The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-03-29
cASsIEs DOWNFALL


Mrs. Cassie l.. Chadwick will have
ten years in the Ohio state penitenti.
ary to reflect on the fralities OF hu.
man nature. She was promoter. We
have had some in Astoria, the Nehalem
Coal Company for instance. But Cas-
sic worked different route. Her bust.
ness was transacted with old bankers,
many Of whom imagined they were
young again, when a woman came
around. Cassie worked the pedal ex-
tremity pulling device and landed
many an old gray headed rebrobate
with their scalp dangling at her belt
There is not man in the world that
could have been successful in the
same graft. No bank will lend man
money on his personal note, but they
fairly jumped over the bank counter
and had the time locks set to meet
the demands Of Cassie.
And some Of the brokers thought
they had snap. They thought they
were working Cassie, that she needed
the money, was good as gold. and they
cashed her check for $4,000 taking
her personal note for s150,000, the ex-
try $4,000 being brokerage fees and
interest. 1t skinned the Dutchman's
per cent. But Cassie did not care
about her note principal or interest as.
long as she could borrow money at the
bank. She never intended paying it,
and having no other security except
her individual note she was safe. ri
she couldn't beat the gamblers on
judgment, she could on an execution.
Cassie was also a philanthropist. She
conducted an American harem for men
at her summer villa. Among the FIRE.
uuent visitors to her den was the old,
gray-headed banker: the capitalist;
the stock broker; and any one whose
pedal extremities could be yanked for |
sweet Cassie's sake. Men with fami, !
lies played at her game. a sort oil
spider and fly ENHANCEMENT. Once in |
'"r villa and under her hypnotic in
fuence, she worked them to the queens
taste, and they dug up like a married
man in box paying a dollar a bottle
for beer and putting a quarter for
luck-well, let's draw the curtain Of
oblivion over the narrowing scenes so
familiar to many a married man OF
Astoria.
Poor old Beckwith, who was one OF
Cassie's dupes, died Of a fractured con-
science and a broken heart. The OBJ
erlin bank, of which he was presi-
dent, was a financial wreck, and many
depositors lost the savings Of years
They will never see the color Of their
money again, but they won't envy Cas-
sic as she sits in her lonely cell in the
Ohio penitentiary, where moth and,
rust doeth not corrupt nor thieves
break through and steal Cassie lived
high, Travelled all over the world,
bought diamonds and precious stones
and prince and potentate and state
sovereigns knelt at her shrine and paid
her homage. They are designated as
dukes, mobiles, plenapotentiaries, lords
and financiers in foreign countries In
Astoria they belong to a class eu-
phoniously styled suckers" A duke
by another name would smell as sweet.
When Cassie's winning ways and
grating proclivities became known,
she moved to green fields and pastures
new and went under the name Of Nine
DeYere. Under this name she served
a term in the penltentiary, so that ner
new home will be no innovation. BY
the time she has seyred her time, the
beautiful gowns purchased at Worth's
in Paris at the expense Of old sinners
and bankers will be out Of style. II
she has any diamonds or jewelry left
her attorney viii be wearing diamonds
But It won't work any hardship on
Cassie As soon as her time expires
and she is released from the pen, she
can come to Astoria, draw check and
sign any mans name to It, and
dozen saloons will be ready and willing
to cash It. She can come here and or
ganize stock company to propagate
bed bugs and can sell thousand
shares Of stock in one day. Astoria