The New York herald., 1922-03-19

whispered story that Andrew Car
negie was her father. Inasmuch as
the miserable lean toward the gre
garious the lowly sucker may derive
1 herefrom a measure of comfort.
4 Cassie, whose last husband was DR..
\ Leroy S. Chadwick, worked prtnci-
pally in Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
4 Her downfall occurred in New York
city, where her mysterious back
/ ground had been erected.
| Had Been Medium and Forger.
| She arrived in Cleveland through
/ Eastwood, Ont, where she was born,
Detroit Toledo, Erie and Buffalo,
where she was known variously and
where she had her ups and downs as
Spiritualistic medium, forger, a
proprietress of mysterious resorts for
the entertainment of the rich and a
| plain siren who took money away from
men so easily that one is inclined to
! believe her claims to supernatural
powers.
! Her preparatory course to becoming
1 the most famous woman of her day
entailed a stretch in the Ohio State
Penitentiary for swindling trusting ac-
quaintances out of $4,000 with notes
to which she had forged the name of
man she had merely heard Of and
had never seen. She had a dozen
aliases by this time. In 1898 she was
paroled and it seems as though Cassie
/ n io1r lrrN
! Vere-had emerged from Jail an en-
tirely new woman.
One year later she appeared in
| Cleveland and the story OF Cassie
4 Chadwick-the great story-begins.
She arrived in Cleveland under her
original and real name, Betsy Bigley
and in 1896 was married to DR.. Leroy
S. Chadwick. 1t will be necessary to
condense; therefore no attempt to de-
scribe the Chadwick menage in Euclid
avenue will be attempted.
Her shopping tours tell the story,
\ She is known to have spent as much
as 500, 900 in a morning in the Cleve-
land stores. Very often she scattered
as much as $4,000. Naturally her
fame was more than merely local. She
was regarded as somewhat of fool
or. to be more polite, bit eccentric
But Cassie was merely laying the
foundations and erecting the scenery
The play began when the stage was
| set and not until.
Went to CnrneGieS House.
II might be well TO start with Cassie
Chadwick's call on Mr.. Carnegie, whom
she had never seen and never saw
one afternoon in the spring of 100.
she drove up to his Fifth avenue house
in a magnificent carriage. She was
accompanied by a prominent Cleve-
land lawyer, who was as much her VIC
tim as any OF the bankers were to be
She told this lawyer that she was
the niece of Frederick Mason, life
long associate Of Mr.. Carnegie, and
that at Mr.. Mason's death he had be-
/ queathed upward OF s7,000,000 in Sc.
curities 70 her. Her story ran to the
effect that Mr.. Carnegie had acted as
trustee and that the estate had grown
\ to S1f 900. 900. She carried IL off well
She looked and acted like $11,000,000.
And then Mrs Chadwick limited the
sinister story of Mr., Carnegie being
| quite willing to do business with hel
rapidly because he did not relish hei
prolonged presence. He had been In
discreet in his youth, perhaps. At any
rate one might take what they chose
out of such hintings. The lawyer
solemnly promised TO guard the secret
/ with ihs life. but Cassie Chadwick
knew her lawyer and calculated the
length OF time it would take the story
to spread over Cleveland. And sh'
was right.
Back In Cleveland she took the as
sortment Of worthless paper with 1t!
forged Andrew Carnegie" 10 Ir
Reynolds, secretary of the Wade Parl
Banking Company. She showed Mr.
Reynolds the imposing documents AM
he sealed them in envelopes. Their,
was trust deed for s10.2i6.000, a not
for SIS. 900 900 and another for $3.50,
00o The name Of Andrew Carnegi
was signed to all of them. There wer'
smaller amounts on paper. All told
there was a representation Of $4,000,
600. Mr.. Reynolds tucked them int,
large envelope. sealed II and stowe,
II away in safe deposit vault marke,
Papers Of Cassie J.. Chadwick. 70
safekeeping only"
The believing Mr.. Reynolds the
gave Cassie a receipt, specifying eacl
item and signing tho receipt in hi
own familiar hand. With that receip
in her hand Cassie Chadwick fare
forth to win few million dollars
BecIxwitb Premier Victim.
Now enters tho unhappy Charles z
Beckwith, president OF the Citizen
, National Bank OF Obcrlin. Ohio. II !
difficult to understand the power Cassi
Chadwick seemed TO have over thi
otherwise shrewd banker-a man VIII
quietly laid down and died when sh
was exposed as a magnificent fake. !
was said Of him that ne was so honor
able himself that he was unable I
diagnose the dlshonorable In others
f}eckwith learned that this spectacu
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