The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-13

= New YORK World at the time OF Gas
= sic Chadwicks arrest In the me-
y tropolis in 1904 Mr.. Kirby was one
y of scores of reporters who trailed
u the adventures during the strenuous
4 days preceding her arrest His i'm =
4 pressions of those days are recalled
y in the article below.
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Cassie Chadwick. queen of adventur-
esses. who died i'll the Ohio state penl-
Tertiary at Columbus on last THURSDAY,
had the four millions of people in New
York city completely ana unmlstakaply
''bluffed" for seven days before ne5
downfall She was an ex-convict and
a woman stained with colossal crimes
yet the multitudes in the nations me
tropolis, represented by the police and the
federal authorities, dared not lay hanos
upon her. And this was because or her
Onfalterjng nerve and the magnificent
display of wealth she made.
AS wolves fear to approach flame, sor-
did New York fears money.
Cassie Chadwick made New York De
lieve she had money. She did this Tor
seven days, and 1t was not untii New
York ceased to believe that the wonder
full woman criminal was dragged from
her luxurious hotel and finally sent back
10 Ohio and the prison where she dled.
On arriving in New York in 1904, Mrs.
Chadwick went to the Holland house, an
ultra aristocratic hosiery. where she
lived in great splendor. She was believed
ito be the wife of a Cleveland multl-mll-
lionaire and many exclusive doors were
opened to her.
a prison even then, she bore herself with
a grace and assurance that few women
could have excelled.
Blue Bioods Entertained.
Her Holland house suite swarmed with
the bluest of the blue bloOded of Ohios
society All had words of the most eX-
aggerated praise for the generous Mrs
Chadwick, who spent hundreds of thou
sands of dollars in entertaining the young
people of Cleveland and other Ohio cities
There were tales of her having taken
whole bevies of society buds on trips to
Europe and of bringing train loads of
Ohio friends to see grand opera in New
York.
Then the cloud, no larger than mans
hand appeared. A man named Newton
came down from Massachusetts to coll
lect the small sum of $4,000 from Mrs.
Chadwick.
She may have seen, even then. the be-
ginning of the end. But she treated
Newton with disdain and appeared to
look upon the matter of $4,000 as a mere
trifle with which she should not have
been annoyed
Newton was convinced that she would
pay him and seemed half ashamed that
he had kjcked up row over the matter.
New YoI I also believed.
For al ut four of the seven days, New
York W ! interested in the payment of
TINS Ocbl OAC
fine morning. granted Newton's lawyers
an audience and they left her smiling and
eXultant.
Lawyers Are Satisfied.
Had the money been paid? Oh, yes.
they were satisfied. Mrs. Chadwick had
been more than generous. Splendid Wom-
an. quoth the lawyers. Each one, ii was
understood, had been generously tipped.
The lawyers were SO happy that they,
who had been busy in undermining the
prestige of the adventures, could no
longer be persuaded to discuss the case.
The fifth day passed. then the sixth.
At last NeWton's lawyers, and there
was hungry band OF them. learned that
the settlement made by Mrs. Chadwick
before Furious with rage. they once
more led the attack upon the woman.
But she still held them proudly at de-
fiance.
II was from these disappointed lawyers
that the story of the Andrew Carnegie
notes for $lOOO0,00O leaked out. The
woman, who had wrecked banks and
ruined individuals with her story of re-
lationship with the steel magnate
hypnotiZed the New York lawyers with
the tale. She made them believe that
she was the acknowledged natural daugh-
ter of the great philanthropist and that
he was anxious TO give her part of his
millions.
But there was no money to be borrowed
I'm New York on such a tale, and the
house of cards the strange adventures
had builded began to fall.
On the, seventh day Mrs. Chadwick
moved from the Holland house to the
Hotel Breslin q snowy Broadway cara