The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-05
CASSIE CHADWICK
 WAS \ SMUGGLER
She Carried on Operations on
 a Colossal Scale
CASE IS VERY SURPRISING
Matter Has Been Kept Secret Since Mrs. Chadwick's Death and Comes to Light in a Book Written
 By Treasury Agent.

New York. October 4-(Special)- Throughout the cratic and varied and criminal career of Mrs. Cassie L. Chad wick, whose persuasive eloquence caused some of the shrewdest finaneiers of the country to part with their money, there was never a hint that she was d smuggler.
 This singular woman who vast swindling operations in other respects attracted the attention of the entire world, was a smuggler of diamonds and other jewelry on a most colossal scale. 1 During her lifetime she is declared to have smuggled into the United States merchandise, mainly jewels, worth $2,OO0,000 With the 60 per cent 1 tariff added, the value would be swelled to $3,000 900. And on one occasion at least, it is learned that a collector of the port, N. N. Stranahan, mistakenly returned to her a diamond necklace worth a fortune on a plea made by her at the customs house that she pur- chased all of the stones in this coun- try.
 What more can the world want to know about me?" Mrs. Chadwick asked on the day of her conviction.
 That there Is much more to still be learned is revealed here for the first time, more than a year after Mrs. Chadwick died in the Ohio peniten- tiary, by William H. Theobald, former l treasury, in his book, "Defrauding the 1 Government; Talks of Smuggling"
 Startling Case.
 "The case of Cassie Chadwick" as the author refers to it, "is startling and the part which Collector Stranahan played in the return of the diamond necklace is intensely interesting"
 The author makes no effort to ex- plain the collectors prompt return of ! the jewels.
 That the knowledge of this particular l phase of her vast career did not ex- tend outside the official ear is due to the fact that at the time of her prose- cution in 1903, she was indicted only for certain individual fraudulent trans actions.
 1 MT. Theobald says that as a special agent of the treatury department he I first became associated with the Gas sic Chadwick smuggling case,' on one of his trips to Europe, May ', 1902, and i he became cognizant of her methods Of ordering jewelry and stones in Paris Major Williams, who was at that time in charge of the Paris office, having ascertained that she had an arrange ment with a certain jeweler there to set precious stones and rare jewels to order for her. finally bribed clerk in the employ of this jeweler to part with the secrets of his employer for a considerable money consideration.
 In pursuance of this plan with this clerk 1t was agreed that all of Cassie i Chadwick's orders should be displayed in the window of this store. The ar rangement was carried out and in this way MT. Theobald was enabled to pho 1 tograph every piece of jewelry which 1 had been made up to her order this alone forming most convincing evidence l that the unfortunate wonfan's state
 
 time of her trial and conviction to tho effect that she did not import mer- chandise or jewelry" was a perjured one.
 Movements Guarded.
 Up to this time, however. in spite of every possible effort, so carefully did Mrs. Chadwick guard her move ments that the officials had not been able to discover when or on what -I..- ica or in Europe on her many trips.
 Finally 1t was learned that she would arrive from Europe on the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm Der Crosse, June IT, 1902, and was met by MT. Theobald on her arrival there. The customs agent noticed that Mrs. Chadwick was waiting in the salon until the inspection of the baggage of the other passengers had been completed, and upon asking her if she had made her declarations, had suspicious aroused by her assertion that she was acquainted with the forms to be gone through. According to her statement the dutiable articles in her possession consisted of only a flew | secondhand strung pearls and a few l pieces of jewelry," Just what would constitute Secondhand pearl" no one has yet been able to determine, but the deputy received the statement without l flinching) of no relative value, and 1 though these pearls were unstrung, they formed complete necklace on i which, and the small articles of jewell ry above mentioned, the revenue of- ficers collected about N$10 ,000 at the GO per cent rate of duty.
 The next time MT. Theobald heard of ] Mrs. Chadwick was when he received ! information that she was known to be a purchaser of Jewelry and unset stones in large numbers. all tending to prove her a dealer in this class of goods selling them to her special clients in America and especially in Cleveland and Pittsburg.