The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-10-19
MRS. CHADWICK IS DEAD
NO FRIENDS OR RELATIVES WERE
IN ATTENDANCE AT TIME
OF HER DEATH.
WRECKED 0BERLIN BANK
Was Known All Over the Country fol
Her Amazing Financial Trans
actions Ending in Disaster
of Ohio BAN

Columbus, O., Oct. 11.-Mrs. Cassie
Chadwick, whose amazing financial
transactions eliminated in the wreck
ing Of an Oberlin CO.. bank, died in
the women's ward at the Ohio peni-
Tertiary Thursday night at 1880. Mrs.
Chadwick had been in a cOmatose 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 Is minutes aft
er 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 Nine.
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.
Married into Good Family.
She served but a portion of this
sentence and hen located in Cleve-
land, where she married a man named
Hoover. Her second husband was DR..
Leroy S. Chadwick of Cleveland. a
man of good family and excellent
standing in his profession.
In the latter part of 1902, or early
in 1908, Mrs. Chadwick, in the pres
ence of her husband, gave to Ira Rey-
nOlds, the cashier of the Wade Park
bank of Cleveland a box containing
notes signed with the name of An
drew Carnegie. These forgeS notes
are alleged to have amounted to ST.
5000 00. 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-
stence of the notes the statement that
she was a 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 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, 1914, she was sued by
a man named Newton of Brookline,
Mass, from whom she had borrowed
a large amount which she vas unable
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 a ma
tional bank at Oberlin, O., which had
been substantially looted. Mrs. Chad
wick had obtained from this institu-
tion such large sums of money that
it was compelled TO close it's doors,
causing heavy losses to the depositors
and running many of them.
Mrs. Chadwick, Beckwith and Spear
indicted for a variety of Offenses
against the national banking laws.
died before coming to trial.
Spear pleaded guilty, was sentenced to
seven years in the p~enitentiary and is
now serving time at Columbus, o. Mrs.
was brought to trial on
March G, 1905, and after a hearing,
lasted for two weeks, was found
guilty of conspiracy to defraud a ma
tional bank and was sentenced to ten
years in the ~penitentiary.
Her health. which was not good at
the time of the trial, failed steadily
after its conclusion.
Mrs. Chadwick left one son, born of
her first marriage, Emil Hoover, who
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