Arizona republican., 1914-02-20
TRIAL OF CASSIE CHADWICK

Ten years ago the Cassie Chadwick swindle was unearthed, and the name of this queen of female crooks was cir culated from one end of the country to the other. Possibly no other woman in history. unaided and alone, save the notorious Madame Humbert, of France, was able so thoroughly to hoodwink fi- nanciers as to be able to borrow the large sum of more than a million dol lars with no visible security.
 At the time Mrs. Chadwick was fifty years cid, without physical charm or intellectual attainment, and vet she se- cured from bank presidents and hard headed men of affairs, hundreds of thousands of dollars with only the whispered confidence" that she was tEe illegitimate daughter of a promi- nent American millionaire as security.
 The "frenzied financiering' of Cassie was the means of bringing one man to an untimely death, landed another in prison, and dealt ruin to hundreds who had deposited their money in the Citi- Zens' National Bank of Oberlin, Ohio a tale from the Arabian Nights"
 Mrs. Chadwick claimedthat she had
 Mrs, Chadwick claimed that she had on the strength of her statement she was able to borrow hundreds of thou sands with ease. To lend strength to her relationship claim with a Steel King, Mrs. Chadwick said she had ten o1 an original fortune of S5O0O0O by him.
 The Chadwicks lived in great style on Euclid avenue Cleveland, and Cas- sic bestowed gifts on everybody she came in contact with. One day she went to the most prominent piano rooms in the city and ordered eight pianos which she sent around to the houses of her friends as a delicate compliment On one occasion she took a dozen girls on trip to Europe and paid all the expenses. and in Paris she had miniatures painted of each mem- Der of the party.
 l There was not a tradesman in Cleve- land who was not delighted when Mrs 1 Chadwick came into his store. She dressed her cook in sealskin, and when 1 she would go driving she would call for three or four carriages and take the one that most pleased her fasti dious taste onthat occasion
 For several years previous to aris- | tocratic life in Cleveland the woman ;, who had been living at various places under the alias of Madame De We're ! and Mrs. Hoover Under the formel name she was arrested on a charge o1 i forgery ard served term in prison ] After d period in which her move ments were not easily followed she me
 and married Dr. Leroy s. Chadwick
 Just how much her husband knew o
 her past life did not appear The per
 son who started the exposure of Mrs i Chadwick was a Boston capitalist
 Herbert N. Newton. from whom sht and her Husband had borrowed large
 sum of money and failed to repay it
 He sued her for the recovery Amos
 simultaneous with this suit came tn, collapse of the Oberlin bank under tn,
 weight of the Chadwick paper in it. vaults. The notes the bank had en.
 dorsed for her aggregated $1,250,000. When Mrs. Chadwick found that ex. posture was forthcoming she left Cleve.
 land and detectives were placed on hel
 track and she was arrested in New
 York city in her apartments at tn, Hotel Breslin on December 27, 1904
 The charge was conspiracy with tn,
 president and cashier of the Citizens
 National Bank of Oberlin to defrau,
 that institution. She was arraignet