Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-10-18
MRS. CHADWICK
PASSES AWAY
DEATH CLAIMS THE AMAZING
FINANCIER.
NO FRIENDS At DEATH BED
Only Prison Employees in Attendance
Most Remarkable Career Ever
Before the American Public Ended
In Penitentiary.

Columbus, Ohio.-Mrs. Chadwick,
whose amazing financial transactions
eliminating in the wrecking of an
0berlin bank, died in the woman's
ward at the Ohio penitentiary.
She had been in a comatose condi-
ton for several hours previous to her
death and the end came peacefully.
No friends or relatives waited at her
bedside. Only the prison physician
and his attendants.
Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick, whose
maiden name was Elizabeth Biglow
was native of Woodstock, Ont. She
first came into public notice in Tole-
do, Ohio, about twenty years ago,
where she told FORTUNES under the
name Of Madame De Cere. While in
that city she forged the name of Rich
ard Brown Of Youngstown, Ohio, and
for this crime was sent to the peni-
tertiary for nine years. She served
but a portion of this sentence and
then located in Cleveland, where she
married a man named Hoover. Her
second husband was d. Leroy 5.
Chadwick, cf Cleveland, man Of
good family and excellent standing
in his profession. In the latter pat
of 1902, or early in 1903, Mrs. Chad
wick, in the presence Of her husband,
gave to Ira Reynolds, the cashier OF
the Wade Park Bank Of Cleveland,
box containing notes signed with the
name Of Andrew Carnegie. These
forged notes are alleged to have
amounted to $7,500,tY0. Reynolds
gave to Mrs. Chadwick a receipt for
the papers which described the notes
and the signature on them. Mrs.
Chadwick left with Reynolds as an
explanation of the existence of the
notes the explanation that she was
natural daughter Of Mr.. Carnegie.
With the receipt Of Reynolds III her
possession, Mrs. Chadwick went 70
different banks and many capitalists,
making loans and paying not only
high interest to the banks, but heavy
bonuses to the bank officials wlo
loaned her the money. The extent
Of these transactions will never De
fully known, but they ran up into
the millions. They involved men of
high standing in the financial world
and caused heavy uses to many
banks. In November, 1904, she was
sued by man named Newton, If
Brookline, Mass, from whom she had
borrowed a large amount, which she
was unable to pay. Other creditors
came down upon her and within a
short time she was placed under ar
rest by the federal authorities on the
charge Of conspiring with Charles
Beckwith, the presiren;, and A. i.
Spear, cashier of national bank at
Oberlin, Ohio, which had been sub
stantially looted. Mrs. Chadwick hal
obtained from this institution such
large sums Of money that it was COM
PEELED to close its doors, causing
heavy losses to the depositors and
running many Of them. Mrs. Chad
wick, Beckwith and Spear were In
dicted for a variety of offenses
against the national banking laws.
Beckwith died before coming to trial!
Spear pleaded guilty, was sentenc ed
to seven years in the penitentiary and
is now serving time at Columbus,
Ohio. Mrs. Chadwick was brought II
trial on March 6, 1905, and after q
hearing which lasted two weeks, was
found guilty of conspiracy to defraud
a national bank and was sentenced to
ten years in the penitentiary. Her
health, which was not good at the
time Of tie trial, failed steadily after
its conclusion. Mrs. Chadwick LEFT
one son, born Of her first marriage,
Emile Hoover, who is now about %
years of age.