The New York herald., 1922-03-19

New York. Mr. Baldwin was very
sorry. but Mr.. Francis had gone ia
Europe TO see Mr.. Carnegie. Nothing
could be done until Mr.. Carnegie spoke
The ironmaster was quite put out by
Mrs. Chadwicks tangled affairs Her
creditors would have to wait until he
| had decided on a policy. or course
everything was TO be settled. but II
was difficult to handle Mr.. Carnegie
once he had taken stand The di-
rectors returned home beset by doubts
| All the time Cassie Chadwick was
torturing poor Beckwith she had sue
cessfully anglsd for other fish From
other banks scattered throughout six
States she had extracted more than
! 81 900 600 in six months.
DazxIed Pittsburgh.
| They began to demand cash. Cassie
Chadwick's castle was swaying, but
she didn't seem to notice it. Quite
coolly she ignored TIE bankers or
called them to Cleveland, where the
spell that enmeshed Beckwith encom-
passed them. They used to go to
Cleveland for money and leave Cleve-
land with Mrs. Chadwick deeper in
their debt than ever.
And now came the last word in
nerve. Mrs. Chadwick knew that An
drew Carnegie had enemies in Pitts
burgh-wealthy enemies who would
give much to be in position to irritate
the Laird of Skibo. She went to Pitts
burgh to make tie big killing and took
har tnr ah IN
suite. She had come to be known as
the Duchess of Diamonds for very
obvious reasons. She all but covered
the walls of her hotel drawing room
with diamonds. Pittsburgh, was in it's
zenitf. OF garish lavishness at the time,
but the bankers and other financiers
who called on her in her hotel We're
stupefed by her array of precious
stones.
Some of these jewels were real:
more were fakes like the woman her
self But they were cleverly mixed
and to all appearances there were
100000 in jewels before their eyes
when they bowed their way into the
august presence. She had let it be
known that she desired to borrow
100000 and stood ready to pay
heavy bonus. In exchange for the
obligation she lad ample security and
she was ready to impart valuable busi-
ness and other information to certain
Pittsburgh millionaires who did not
love Andrew Carnegie.
Got 100000 Despite Lawyers.
Shoals of lawyers were engaged to
keep things regular. Lawyers meant
no more to Cassie Chadwick than
bankers did. She never feared the law
nor its manipulators. Mrs. Chadwick
produced the old Iri Reynolds receipt.
She received 100000 without a strug-
gle and hastened back to Cleveland
She dropped in on Mr.. Reynolds on
the way home and picked up $4,000
more, leaving in his care a package
he believed to contain 100000 in
United States Steel bonds and a $780,
900 certificate which We're duly placed
beside the stuff already in the vault.
Later on, after the crash, these latest
packets were opened. One contained
five $1,000 bonds of the Home Tele-
grapl, Company Of Niagara, N. ""
and the other six certificates Of the
Buckeye Fish Company"
Poor Beckwith was threatening sui
eide and already was falling into that
physical and mental decline that pres
emily killed him. Cassie Chadwick
having wrung him dry had all but
taken to ignoring him. She now
looked to New England for victims.
The Rev. DR.. Charles A. Eaton, then
pastor of the Euclid Avenue Baptist
Church in Cleveland-the church at
tended by John D. Rockefeller-intro-
duced her to his nephew, a lawyer in
Boston. This lawyer in turn intro
duced her to Herbert d. Newton. a
Brookline banker, who proved to be
the first accosted by Cassie Chadwick,
who insisted that everything she said
be proved to his satisfaction.
DR.. Chadwick, always in the back
ground, had left for Europe, taking
with him his daughter by his first wife.
Mrs. Chadwick, preparing to follow
entered into NEGOTIATIONS in Brookline
for 100000. She got the money and
was in the Holland House, New York
city, when the notes fell due. Newton
manded the money. failed to get 1t and
sued the hitherto impregnable Cassie.
Then Cleveland woke up. Then the
country woke up. For the first time
her victims sought direct information
from Mr.. Carnegie. He told them he
had never seen the woman in his life
and knew her only through the news
paper accounts Of her bewildering
achievements. He added that it was
obvious that his own credit must be
good when the appearance OF his name
on paper could coax a couple OF mil
lions out of bank vaults. Mr.. Carne-
gle laughed at his own observation.
but the bankers didn't.
She was tried in the United States
Court in Cleveland and sentenced to
ten years In the Ohio State Peniten-
tiary, whence she had emerged twelve
years before. She died in prison and
her body was taken to the little Cana
dian town where she was born and
there buried.