Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-10-12
MRS. CHADWICK DEAD
End Comes Peacefully to the
witch of Finance.
FORGED NOTES FOR MILLIONS
Posing as carnegie's Natural Dauqh-
ter, She Deposited in Banks pa
pers Signed With His Name.

pers Signed With His Name.
Columbus, Ohio Oct 1t.-Mrs. Cas-
sic NJ. Chadwick, whose amazing flnan.
cial transactions eliminated in the
wrecking of an ODER in, Ohio. bank.
died in the. women's ward Of the Ohio
penitentiary last night Al 1915 Mrs.
Chadwick had been in 4. cqmatose con.
ditien many hours previous to her
death and the end came peacefully.
No friends or rela ives wa. ted at
her bdsice only the prison omcial
and hospital attendants being pres
emit. Her son, Emil Hoover. had been
summoned from Cleveland. but he did
not arrive until today
Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick. whose
maiden name was Elizabeth Bigley
was a native of Woods ock. Canada
She first came into public notice in
| Toledo, Ohio, about twenty years ago.
when she told fortunes under the
name of Nine. Deviere. While in this
city she forged the name of Richard
Brown, Youngstown, Ohio, and for this
crime was sent to the penitentiary at
Columbus for nine years.
She served but part of this SEN
tence, and then located in Cleveland.
where she married a man named
Hoover. Her second husband was DR..
lie Roy S. Chadwick, of Cleveland, a
man of good family and excellent
standing in his profession.
Forged carnegie's Name.
In the latter part of 1902, or early
in 1908 Mrs Chadwick in the pres
ence of her husband, gave Ira Rey-
nolds, the cashier of the Wade Park
bank, of Cleveland, box containing
notes signed with the name of Andrew
Carnegie. These forged notes are al
legged to have amounted to $500 900.
Reynolds gave a receipt for the pa
pers, which described the notes and
the signatures upon them. Mrs Chad
wick left with Reynolds as an explana-
ton of the notes that she was a. nat
ural daughter of Andrew Carnegie.
With the receipt of Reynolds in her
/ possession, Mrs. Chadwick went to diff
| ferent banks and many capitalists,
making loans and paying not only
high rate of interest to banks but
hon la, y .111.
oaned the money The extent of these
/ transactions will never be fully known
but they ran up into millions. They
! involved men of high standing in the
I financial world and caused heavy
/ losses TO many banks .s
In November, 1904, she was sued by
Mass, from whom she had borrowed
large amount. Other creditors came
down upon and soon she was arrested
by the Federal authorities on the
charge of conspiring with Charles
Beckwith, president, and A. b. Spear,
cashier of national bank at Oberlin.
Ohio, which had been heavily looted.
Bank Went to Wall.
Mrs. Chadwick had obtained from
this institution such large sums that
it was compelled to close its doors,
causing heavy losses to depositors and
running many of them
Mrs. Chadwick Beckwith, and Spear
were indicted for a variety of Of
lenses against the national banking
laws. 'Beckwith died before coming 10
trial. Spear plead guilty, was SEN
fenced to seven years in the peniten-
tiary and is now serving his time at
Columbus.
Mrs Chadwick was brought to trial
March 6, 1905. and after a hearing,
which lasted two weeks, was found
guilty of conspiracy to defraud 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, Emil
Hoover. born of her first marriage.
He is now about twenty wears old