The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1907-10-11
END OF CAREER or WOMAN WHO
sKILLFULLY FLEECED
BANKS OF BIG SUMS
Death Came Peacefully, With No
Friends Or Relatives at Her Bed
side History Of Her Life and
Manner il Which She Secured
Money.

Columbus, Ohio, Oct. FRS.
Cassie Chadwick, whose amazing
financial transactions eliminated In
the wrecking Of the 0berlin, Ohio,
bank. died In the woman's ward cf
the Ohio penitentiary last nigh : =!
s10:l5 O'Clock, Mrs. Chadwick had
been In q 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 physi-5
clan and his attendants. Her son,
Emil Hoover, had been summoned
from Cleveland, but he arrived i
minutes after her death.
Mrs. Cassie Z. Chadwick, whose
maiden name was Elizabeth Bigley,
was q native or Woodsto Canada.
She first came into public notice In
Toledo, Ohio, about 20 years ago.,
where she told fortunes under the
name Of Madame Deviere. While In
this city she forged the name Of
Richard Brown Of Youngstown, Ohio.
and was sent to the penitentiary for
nine years. She served but a portion
OF the sentence, and then located In
Cleveland, where she married man
named Hoover. Her second husband
was Dr. Leroy S. Chadwick Of CleVe-
land. man of good family and Of
excellent standing In his profession,
The Game She Worked.
In the latter part Of 1902 or early
In 1903 Mrs. Chadwick, In the pres-
.ence OF her husband, gave to ri Rey-
nolds, the cashier OF the Wade Park
bank Of Cleveland q box containing
notes signed with the name Of An
drew Carnegie. These forged notes
are alleged to have amounted to
$500, 1000. Reynolds gave to Mrs.
Chadwick receipt for the papers,
in which was described the notes and
signatures upon them. Mrs. Chad
wick left with Reynolds as an expla-
nation Of the existence Of the notes
a statement that she was natural
daughter Of Carnegie. With the res
ceipt Of Reynolds possession 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 officials who loaned her the
money. The extent Of these transac-
tions 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. B
In November, 1904, she was sued
by a man named Newton Of Brook
line, Mass, from whom she had bor-5
rowed q 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 Beckwith
and a. r. Spear pf the National
bank Of Oberlin, which had been sub
stantially looted.
Mrs. Chadwick had obtaihed from
this Institution such large sums Of
money that III was compelled to close
its doors, causing heavy losses to de-
positors. ~
Mrs. Chadwick, Beckwith and
Spear were Indicted for g variety Of
oIenses against the national bank
Ing lawn. Beckwith died before cons
ing to trial.
Spear pleaded guilty and was sem
fenced to seven years IN the peniten-1s
tiary Mrs. Chadwick was found
guilty Of conspiracy to defraud q ma
tional bank and was sentenced 70 ten
years A the penitentiary