The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-11
Principal in Amazing Financial
Transactions Has Es-
capped Hand of Justice.
AMERICAN NINE. HUBERT.
HER FAITHFUL SON WAS DENIED
THE PRIVILEGE OF SPENDING
THE LAST MOMENTS WITH HER
AS HE WAS IN CLEVELAND.

Columbus, O., Oct. 11-Mrs. Cassie
Chadwick, whose amazing financial
ing of an Oberlin bank, and gave to
her the distinction of being the Amer
lean Nine. Hubert, died in the wom-
ans ward at the penitentiary last
night at 1915. Mrs. Chadwick had
been in a comatose state for some
| hours and the end came peacefully. No
| relatives or friends waited al her bed
| side and only the prison physicians
| and hospital attendants watched death
silently cheat justice of it's own.
| The son Of the famous adventures,
Emil Hoover, who had stuck so faith
fully by his mother through all her
troubles and trials even when the
world had turned and pointed to her
as one of the most remarkable of Grim
inals-this son, strong in the faith of
his mother, was denied the privilege
of passing the last moments with her
whom he loved. Emil had been sum-
mOned from Cleveland to the bedside
of the dying woman when it was first
learned that death was but a few
hours away. He was not expected to
arrive before this morning, however.
Health Fails in Prison.
The decline in Mrs. Chadwick's
health began almost from the time she
entered the penitentiary on Jan. II,
1906, sentenced to ten years imprison-
ment. She fretted necessarily over
her confinement and worried about
her troubles until it became almost i'm
possible for her to sleep. At times she
was so peevish the prison officials
were 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 thirty pounds at the time
Of her death.
Mrs. Chadwick, whose maiden name
was Elizabeth Bigley, was native of
Woodstock, Canada. She first came
into public notice in Toledo, O., about
twenty years ago, where she told for
tunes under the name of Nine. De-
Were. 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. She served but portion
Of this sentence and then located in
Cleveland, where she married a man
named Hoover. Her second husband
was DR.. Leroy S. Chadwick Of Cleve
land, a man of good family and excel
lent standing in his profession.
FORCES Carnegie's Name to Notes.
In the latter part of 1902. or early
in 1903, 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 Andrew
Carnegie These forged notes are al
legged to have amounted to $7,5OO,OOO
Reynolds gave to Mrs. Chadwick q
receipt for the papers, which described
the notes and the signatures upon
them Mrs. Chadwick left with Rey
nolds as an explanation of the exist
ence of the notes the statement that
she was a natural daughter of Carne
gle.
With the receipt of Reynolds in hel
possession, Mrs. Chadwick went to
different banks and many capitalists
making loans and paying not only high
interest to the banks, but heavy bonus
es to the bank officials who loaned
: her the money The extent of these
: transactions will never be fully known
but they ran up into the millions
They involved men of high standing
in the financial world and caused
heavy losses to many banks.