The Nevada County picayune., 1907-10-17
MRS. CHADWICK IS DEAD
NO FRIENDS OR RELATIVES WERE IN ATTENDANCE AT TIME
 OF HER DEATH.
WRECKED OBERLIN BANK
Was Known All Over the Country for Her Amazing Financial Trans actions Ending In Disaster
 of Ohio Bank

Columbus. O.. Oct. 11.-Mrs. Cassie Chadwick. whose amazing financial transactions culminated in the wreck ing of an Oberlin tO) bank, died in the womens ward al the Ohio peni- tentary Thursday night at 10:50. Mrs. Chadwick had been in q eomatose con- dition for some hours previous to her death and the end came peacefully. No friends or relatives were at her bedside: only the prison physician and hospital attendants. Her son. Emil Hoover. had been summoned from Cleveland. but arrived l5 minutes aft CT she had expired.
 Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Bogley, was a native of Woodstock, Can. She first came into public notice in Toledo O., about 20 years ago, where she told fortunes under the name of Mime. Devier. While in this city she forged the name of Richard Brown, Youngs- town, O., and for this crime was sent to the penitentiary at Columbus for nine years.
 mdTTIGO Into 1OOQ
 She served but portion of this sentence and then located in Cleve land, where she married man named Hoover. Her second husband was Dr. Leroy s. Chadwick of Cleveland, man of good family and excellent standing in his profession.
 In the latter part of 1902, or early in 1903, Mrs. Chadwick in the pres ence of her husband, gave to Ira Key holds, the cashier of the Wade Park bank of Cleveland box containing notes signed with the name of An drew Carnegie. These forged notes are alleged to have amounted to ST.. 0000. Reynolds gave to Mrs. Chad wick a receipt for the papers, which described the notes and the signatures upon them. Mrs. Chadwick left with Reynolds as an explanation of the ex- istence of the notes the statement that she Was natural daughter of Car negie.
 With receipt of Reynolds in her possession, Mrs. Chadwick went to diff ferent banks and many capitalists making loans and paying not only high interest to the banks. but heavy bon uses to the bank officials who loaned her the money.
 Transactions Ran Into Millions.
 The extent of these transactions will never be known fully, but they ran up into the millions. They in volved men of high standing in the financial world, and caused heavy losses to many banks.
 In November. 1904. she was sued by man named Newton of 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 arrest by the fed eral authorities on the charge of con. spring with Charles Beckwith, the president, and A. B. Spear of na- tional bank at Oberlin, O, which had been substantially footed. Mrs. Chad wick had obtained from this institu- tion such large sums of money that it was compelled to close its doors, causing heavy losses to the depositors  and Iuining many of them.
 Mrs Chadwick. Beckwith and Spear were indicted for a variety of offenses against the national banking laws. Beckwith died before coming to trial Spear pleaded guilty. was sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary and IS now serving time at Columbus, o. Mrs Chadwick was brought to trial on March 6, 1905, and after hearing which lasted for two weeks, was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud a na tional bank and was sentenced to ten years in the penitenuary.
 Her health, which was not good at the time of the trial failed steadily after it's conclusion.
 Mrs Chadwick left one son, born of her first marriage, Emil Hoover who is now about 20 years of age.