The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-16
LOCAL MAN SHADOWED
CASSIE CHADWICK
LEWIS =. KIRBY, FORMER NEWS
EDITOR, PLAYED PART IN
WOMAN'S CAREER.


usual interest locally, by reason OF
the fact that local man played an
important part in the exciting days
which preceded her arrest on charges
of illegal high financiering.
This man was Lewis P. Kirby, for
mer editor of The News, who at the
time of the incidents referred to was
member of the regular staff of the
New York World, and to him was
detailed the task of shadowing the
woman and keeping in close touch
with her movements.
Mr.. Kirby IS now member of the
staff of the Salt Lake Herald, and
tells in an interesting fashion, the
story of the fall of the greatest ad-
ventures in modern American GRIM
inal history. His story is as follows:
Cassie Chadwick, queen of adven-
turesses. who died in the Ohio state
penitentiary at Columbus on last
Thursday, had the four millions of
people in New York city completely
and Enthusiastically 'bluffed" for seven
days before her downfall. She was
an ex-convict and woman stained
with colossal crimes, yet the multi
tudes in the nations metropolis, rep.
resented by the police and the federal
authorities, dared not lay hands upon
her. And this was because of her
unfaltering nerve and the magnifi-
cent display of wealth she made.
AS wolves fear to approach flame,
so did New ork fear money.
Cassie Chadwick made New York
believe she had money. She did this
for seven days, and it was not until
New York ceased to believe that the
wonderful woman criminal was drag
ged from her luxurious hotel and
finally sent back to Ohio and the
prison where she died.
On arriving in New York in 1904,
Mrs. Chadwick went to the Holland
house, an ra-aristocratic hostelry,
where she lived in great splendor.
She was believed to be the wife of
a Cleveland multi-millionaire and
many exclusive doors were opened to
her.
Although she had known the in
side of prison even then, she bore
herself with grace and assurance
that few women could have excelled.
with the bluest of the blue blooded
of Ohios society. All had words of
the most exaggerated praise for the
generous Mrs. Chadwick, who spent
hundreds of thousands 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 a
mans hand, appeared. A man NAM
ed Newton came down from Massa-
chusetts to collect the small sum of
100000 from Mrs. Chadwick.
She may have seen, even then, the
beginning of the end. But she treat
ed Newton with disdain and appeared
to look upon the matter of $3.50, 900
as a mere trife with which she should
not have been annoyed.
Newton was convinced that she
would pay him and seemed half
ashamed that he had kicked up row
over the matter. New York also be-
lieved.
For about four of the seven days,
New York was interested in the pay
ment of this trifing debt. Mrs. Chad
wick, one fine morning, granted New
toms lawyers an audience and they
left her smiling and eXultant.
Had the money been paid? Oh,
yes, they were satisfied. Mrs. Chad
wick had been more than generous.
Splendid woman, quoth the lawyers.
Each one, it was understood, had
been generously tipped.
The lawyers were so happy that
they, who had been busy in under
mining the prestige of the adventur-
ess, could no longer be persuaded to
discuss the case.
The fifth day passed, then the
sixth.
At last Newton's lawyers, and
there was a hungry band of them,
learned that the settlement" made
by Mrs. Chadwick left them as far
from the real cash as before. Furi-
GUS with rage, they once more led
the attack upon the woman.
But she still held them proudly at
defiance.
It was from these disappointed
lawyers that the story of the Andrew
Carnegie notes for $10,000,000 leak
ed out. The woman, who had wreck,
ed banks and ruined individuals with
her story of relationship with the
steel magnate, hypnotized the New
York lawyers with the tale. She
made them believe that she was the
acknowledged natural daughter OF
the great philanthropist and that he
was anxious to give her part of his
millions.
But there was no money to be bor-
rowed in New York on such tale
and the house of cards the strange
adyenturess had builded began tC
fall.
On the seventh day Mrs. Chadwick
moved from the Holland house to the
Hotel Breslin, snowy Broadway
caravansary. In moving she made
fatal mistake. 1t weakened the har
assed woman's already waning pres
tige and the end was near.
New York fears wealth, but it doe:
not fear the ruined or those who tot
ter upon the brink of the abyss. i
quickly saw that Mrs. Chadwick was
not the woman of princely resources
it had at first supposed, and from
that time on the pack followed deris
iyely at Mrs. Chadwick's S heels. When
ever she moved, crowds pursued hel
until at last she was taken into Gus
tody by the United States marshal
following public statement made b!
Andrew Carnegie at his Fifth avenue
mansion that he did not know tn'
woman and that the checks sh'