The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-11
MRS. CHADWICK DEAD.
She Was Serving a Second Term in the
Sp3 Penitentiary.


Columbus. Ohio, Oct 11-Mrs Cas-
sic Chadwick, whose amazing. financial
transactions eliminated in the wreck
woman's.. ward in the Ohio peniten-
tiary last night. Mrs. Chadwick had
been .in. comatose condition some
hours previous to her death and the
end came peacefully No friends or
relatives waited at her bedside; only
the prison physician and hospital at
PENDANTS. Her son, Emil Hoover, had
been summoned from Cleveland, but
he. was not expected to arrive before
today.
Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick. whose
maiden name was Elizabeth Bigley,
was a native of Woodstock, Canada
She first came into public notice in
Toledo about 20 years ago where she
told fortunes under the name of
Madam Devier. While in this city she
forged the name of Richard Brown OF
Youngstown, Ohio, and for this crime
was sent to the penitentiary at Co
lumbus 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 Dr. Leroy 3
Chadwick of Cleveland. a 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 Rey-
noldS.e cashier of the Wade Park bank
offs Cleveland, a box containing notes
signed with the name of Andrew car
negie. These forged notes are al
legged to have amounted to ST, 500, 600
Reynolds gave to Mrs. Chadwick re-
ceipt for the paper which described
the notes and the signatures upon
them. Mrs. Chadwick left with Rey-
noids as an explanation of the amount
OF the notes the statement that she
was natural daughter of Carnegie.
Worked the Banks.
With the receipt of Reynolds in her
possession, Mrs. Chadwick went to diff
ferent banks and many capitalists max
ing loans and paying not only big in
terest to the banks, but heavy bonus TO
the bank officers who loaned her the
money. The extent of these transactions
will never be known fully, but they ran
up into the millions. They involved 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 Brooklyn, Mass, |
from whom she had borrowed 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 federal authorities
on the charge of conspiring with Charles |
Beckwith, the president and A. B. Spear |
OF the National Bank of Oberlin, Ohio |
which had been substantially looted. |
Mrs Chadwick had obtained from this !
institution such large sums of money |
tnat II was cOmpelIeQ TO close us uOOISr |
causing heavy loss to the depositors and /
running many of them
Mrs Chadwick, Beckwith and Spear |
were indicted for variety of offenses |
against the National banking laws. |
Beckwith died before coming to trial. |
Spear was sentenced to seven years ir
the prison and is now serving time at |
Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Chadwick was
brought to trial on March 6. 1906, and
after hearing which lasted for two
weeks was found guilty of conspiracy to
defraud a national bank and was sem
fenced to ten years in the penitentiary.
Her health was not good at the time of
the trial and failed steadily after its
conclusion Il
Mrs Chadwick left one son. born of
Ter first marriage, Emil Hoover, who
is row about 20 years of age.
The decline in Mrs. : Chadwick's
health began almost from the time she
entered the penitentiary january II.
1906, sentenced to ten years imprison-
ment. She fretted necessarily over her
confinement and worried about her
troubles until it became almost impos-
sible for her to sleep. At times she
was so peevish the patience of the
prison officials was sorely tried.
Mrs. Chadwick was a robust and
healthy looking woman when she came
to the prison, but she gradually wasted
away and had lost fully so pounds at
the time of her death. Her last illness
dated back about three weeks, when
she suddenly collapsed during an inter-
view with her son, Emil Hoover. She
was confined to cot in the hospital of
the women's ward from that time until
her death. At times she became de-
lirious but she never talked of her mis-
fortunes during these periods. The
physicians declared Mrs. Chadwick was
the victim of a total nervous collapse
described in medical science as neu-
raSthenia-