Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-09
MRS, CHADWICK I'LL
Famous Woman SWindIer Dy-
Ing In Prison.
CASE SAID TO BE HOPELESS
She Has Previously Stunned All
Publicity.
HER FEELING IS CHANGED NOW
Knowing That She Can Never Re
cover She Is Indifferent to the
Stares Of Visitors.
Err FEELING IS CHANGED NOW

COLUMBUS, Ohio, October 9.-Mrs.
Cassie Chadwick at $50 this morning is
reported as much worse at the woman's
ward In the hospital of the Ohio peni-
tentiary. Her pulse is very weak and
she is partly del1rious. Physicians are
making all preparations. to attempt to
stay any sinking spells. They decline
to say how long she may survive.
Mrs. Chadwick, who is serving q ten
year term for wreching the First Ma
tional Bank in oberlln, Ohio, was still to-
day unable to retain nourishment, and
her condition is admitted to be very
serious. She lies in her bed in the wom-
ans ward at the hospital seemingly in
different to her fate. racked with pain
and apparently resigned, and knowing
that her end is fast approaching. She
has been IN the penitentiary since Janu-
airy ~, 1903, and with good time to her
credit, would have gotten out November
20. 1910. had the fatal disease not seized
upon her
Ill Three Weeks.
Mrs. Chadwick has been confined to her
bed since the first severe attack about
three weeks ago, when while talking to
her son, she suddenly collapsed and was
unconscious for some time 1t was at
first hinted that she was playing off, in
order to excite sympathy and secure par
don, but within few days it was known
that her case was serious, and she was
placed under the constant care of the
prison physician. Her trouble is at
tacks of heart failure and weak stomach,
the latter according to the physician,
being caused by INDUCING In rich food.
When she first came to the prison Mrs.
Chadwick sent to fashionable restau-
rant in the city for her meals, and ate
the richest viands. Finally, the prison
officials ordered that she be compelled to
eat the regular prison fare but she still
complained of her stomach. and gradually
became worse. 1t is openly stated by the
doctors that she cannot recover and that
she Is liable to drop off at any time. She
made profession of the Roman Catholic
faith yesterday, and the rite of baptism
was administered to her by the Rev Fa-
Their Fancis Kelly, the Catholic chaplain
Of the state prison. The ceremony was
performed as she lay upon her bed.
Mind Is Failing.
Mrs. Chadwick as a prisoner has al
ways stunned the public. Since her in
generation she has always been satisfied
If She could only be screened from the
gaze of visitors TO the prison. She even
stunned the gaze of the other prisoners
She has never been required to attend
any chapel exercises. This privilege was
granted at her request, and also because
It was believed that when the story of
her crime was still fresh In the public
mind her presence in the chapel would
draw an undesirable crowd to these serv-
ices.
The fact that She now valves these OBJ
Jectlons shows that she realizes that her
days are few and that she VIII probably
never again be able to leave the hospital.
Her physical weakness is showing its eff
feet upon her mind, and, while at inter
walls she IS wholly irrational her mind
Is at no time strong Mrs. Chadwick is
mere wreck of the woman who was ar
rested for conspiracy TO defraud national
banks four years ago.