The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-11
Financial Wizard Dies
 in Penitentiary.
THE END CAME PEACEFULLY
She Had Served Only Portion of
 Her Sentence.
Amasing Financial Transactions, CuI- minatiss In wreckins of Ns- tionaI Bank, Are RecaIIed--.
 0ne son Survives Her.

Columbus. O.. Oct. 1o.--Mrs. Cassie Chadwick, whose amazing financial transactions culminated in the wreck ing of an Oberlin bank, died in the woman's ward at the Ohio penitenti- ary at 10:i5 o'clock tonight. 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 waited at her bedside; only the prison physician and his attendant. Her son. Emil Hoover, had been summoned from Cleveland, but he was not expected to arrive be- fore tomorrow.
 Mrs. Cassie l.. Chadwick. whose maiden name was Elizabeth Rigley. was a native of Woodstock, Canada. She first came into public notice in Toledo. O.. about twenty years ago. where she told fortunes under the name of Madame Deviere. While in this city she forged the name of Rich- ard Brown. Youngstown. O., and for this crime, was sent to the peniten- tiary at Columbus. for nine years.
 She served but q portion of this sen- tence and then located in Cleveland. where she married a man named Hoov- er Her second husband was Dr. Le- roy S. Chadwick of Cleveland, a man of good family and excellent standing in his profession.
 Tn the latter part of 1902. or early in 1903. Mrs. Chadwick in the presence of her husband. gave to Ira Reynolds. the cashier of the Wade Park Bank. of Oberlin. O.. box containing notes forged notes are alleged to have amounted. to s7.so0.0oo. Reynolds gave to Mrs. Chadwick receipt for the papers. which described the notes and the signatures upon them. Mrs. Chadwick left with Reynolds as an expianation of the existence of the notes. the statement that she was a natural daughter of Andrew carnegfe.
 With the receipt of Reynolds in her possession. Mrs Chadwick went to aiIs forA1lt1 bssssez 6 and sakng -capitalisas makinggioans and paying not only high interest to the banks. but heavy bo- nuses 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. In No- vember, 1904, she was sued by man named Newton, of Brookline, Mass, from whom she had borrowed large amount which she was unable to pay. Other creditors came down on her and within a short time. she was placed under arrest by the Federal authori- ties on the charge of censpiring with Charles Beckwith the President, and A. B. Spear. the cashier of national bank at oberlin, O., which had been substantially footed. Mrs. Chadwick had obtained from this institution such large sums of money that 1t was compelled 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. Beckwith died before coming to trial. Spear pleaded guilty, was sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary and IS now serving time at Columbus. Mrs Chadwick was brought to trial on March 6, 1906. and after a hearing which 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 et -khe time of the trial. failed steadily af- ter its conclusion.
 Mrs. Chadwick left one son, Emil Hoover, born of her first marriage. He is now about 20 years old.