Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-21
PHOENIX man
DENIES HE WAS
WOMAN'S DUPE
Story From Pittsburg About
Operation of Second Cassie
Chadwick Brings 10 the
Name of S. S. Green.

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PHOENIX, Feb. 20.-The following
story from the Los Angeles Examiner
/ OF the 18th is quite interesting at
/ least and has a touch OF local color
in il by the suggestion that Phoenix
man has also been a victim OF the
female frenzied financier. S. z.
Green, the Phoenix man mentioned.
said he had transacted some business
with Mrs. Cochrane but he knew
nothing of the incidents recited in
the Examiners story:
Pittsburg T. F. Lovejoy,
former partner of Andrew Carnegie,
gave a mortgage on his $4,000 man
sion here amounting to 100000, for
which he received in return the sum
Of 81 as hand money and nothing
more. Mrs. Mary E. Cochrane, to
whom the mortgage was given
through a mysterious third person, is
mysteriously missing, and today came
out the story OF her remarkable ca
reer, which rivals that of Mrs. Cassie
Chadwick. In securing introductions
to men of wealth and prominence,
Mrs. CochraRe used letters from Ellis
H. Roberts, former treasurer of the
United States; Bourke Cochran, Del
pain Nj. Delmas, Mrs. Hetty Green,
the late Judge John j. Wyckham. JUS
tice of the superior court of Pennsyl-
vania and a dozen judges of promIn-
ence in and about Pittsburg. Some
of these letters are undoubtedly gen.
uine. others were probably forgeries.
Mrs. Cochrane, known to Pittsburg
financiers as The Woman in Black,
is a daughter of Col. w. B. Dunlap
and a niece OF the late Senator Dun
lap. Some time ago she was in the
county Jail at Newcastle. Just how
much she secured from wealthy Pitts
burgers is unknown, but the amount
is believed to be enormous.
Mrs. Cochrane's downfall came yes
terday when she went to local bank
with the mortgage on Loveioy's home
and a large number of shares of stock
in the Amador Queen Mining COM
pany of California. She wished 10
borrow $3.50. 1000 on them. When sac
was told that the loan could not be
made without the board OF directors
acting on the matter, she attempted
to borrow S35 on her own name. The
immense tumble aroused the suspl-
cion of the bank officials and an m
vestigation quickly followed. At )
O'Clock this morning Mrs. Cochra1e
disappeared from her magnificent
apartments at Mckee and Cable
Place, Oakland, and has not been
seen since.
In January of this year Mrs. Coch-
rane went to Mr.. Lovejoy with the
intention of interesting him in gold
mining stock that she said she owned
Mr.. Lovejoy at that time was hard
pressed for money, the Fidelity Title
and Trust company having demand
ed payment of interest on mort
gage for $4,000 on his nome. He ex-
plaihed his position to Mrs. Cochrane,
and she readily consented to assist
him with a loan OF 100000, taking a
mortgage on the mansion, which has
come to be known as ''Lovejoy's Fol-
~" and which Mr.. LoYejoy has al
ready spent S750,000 The money
was to be furnished by S. s. Green
of Phoenix, Arizona, who is also be-
lieved to be dupe OF Mrs. Coca
rane. So anxious was Mr.. Lovejoy
to have the deal completed that he
signed the mortgage, when only the
81 hand money" had been paid over
This was on January 10. Usually
such a mortgage is not, recorded for
two weeks, but on the following day
Mrs. Cochrans had it recorded here.
At the court house it appears in mort
gage volume 1927, page sos. Then
Mrs. Cochrane kept out of Mr.. Love
joys way.
The mortgage is giit-edged. 1t is
for five years at per cent interest,
unusually high rate for such i'm
proved property There is clause
which allows payment after three
years, If six months notice is given.
Loyejoy to show that all taxes and
every incumbrance against the prop
erty has been paid. Tae property
is described in detail Leo NJ. Dillon,
a notary public, in the Office OF Pagan
and Magee, attorneys, attested the
mortgage.
Mrs Cochrane is under forty years
of age. and, while not beautiful, is
stunning in appearance. She dresses
Inagnificently in black, which causes
her to be known as "The Woman IN
Black"
Several attempts were made re-
Gently to 6ispossess her OF her quar-
ters in the Hartford apartments, but
she refused to leave. This morning
at o'clock, however, knowing that
exposure awaited her, she disap-