The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-11
MRS. CHADWICK
DIES IN PRISON
No Friends or Relatives at the
Bedside of Americas NotO-
riouS Female SWindIer.

Columbus, Ohio. Oct. 10-Mrs. Cassie
Chadwick, whose financial transactions
eliminated in the wrecking of an OberIin
bank, died in the womans ward in the
Ohio penitentiary at 1906 O'Clock tonight
Mrs Chadwick had been in a comatose
condition for some hours previous to her
death, and the end came peacefully. No
friends or relatives waited at her bedside;
only the prison physician and her prison
Her son, Emil Hoover, had been sum-
moned from Cleveland. but he was not eX-
pected to arrive before tomorrow.
Native of Canada.
Mrs Cassie l.. Chadwick. whose maiden
name was Elizabeth Bigley. was native
of Woodstock. Canada. She first came
into public notice in Toledo, Ohio. about
twenty years ago, where she told fortunes
under the name of Madame Devier. While
in this city she forged the name of Rich
ard Brown. Youngstown, Ohio, and for
this crime she was sent to the peniten-
tiary at Columbus for nine years. She
served but a portion of this sentence and
then located in Cleveland, where she mar
ried a man named Hoover. Her second
husband was DR.. Leroy S. Chadwick of
Cleveland, man of good family and eX-
cellent standing in his profession.
Carnegie Forged Notes.
1903 Mrs. Chadwick. in the presence of her
husband, gave to Ira Reynolds, cashier of
the Wade Park bank of Cleveland, a box
containing notes signed with the name of
Andrew Carnegie. These forged notes are
alleged to have amounted to $l,500,000.
Reynolds gave to Mrs. Chadwick re
ceipt for the papers. which described the
notes and the signatures upon them. Mrs.
Chadwick left with Reynolds as an eXpla-
nation of the existence of the notes the
ct nj that she natural daughter
of Carnegie.
With the receipt of Reynolds in her pos
session Mrs. Chadwick went to different
banks and many capitalists. making loans
and paying not only high interest to the
banks but heavy bonuses to the bank Of
ficials who loaned her the money. The
extent of these transactions viii 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.
Creditors Swooped Down.
In November 1904. she was sued by a
man named Newton of Brookline. Mass,
from whom she had borrowed a large
amount which she was unable to pay.
Other creditors came down upon her and
within short time she was placed under
arrest by the federal authorities on the
charge of conspiring with Charles Beck
with, the president and A. B. Spear of a
national bank at Oberlin. Ohio, which had
been substantially looted. Mrs. Chadwick
had obtained from this institution such
large sums of money that it was COM
PEELED to close its doors. causing heavy
losses to the depositors and running many
of them
Mrs Chadwick Beckwith and Spear
were indicted for a variety of offenses
against the national banking laws. Beck
with died before coming to trial Spear
pleaded guilty. was sentenced to seven
years in the penitentiarv and is now serv-
ing time in Columbus. Ohio. Mrs. Chad
wick was brought to trial on March 6.
1905. and after a hearing which lasted fer
two weeks was found guilty of conspira cy
to defraud national bank and was SEN
fenced 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 is now about 20 years of age.