Show I CASSIE CHADWICK DIES IN PRISON No Friends or Relatives at Bedside of Woman Who Gained National Reputation as a Swindler Woman Claimed to be Daughter of Andrew Carnegie and Succeeded In Buncoing Financiers and Bankers Out of Large Sums of Money ColumbusOhio Casilc Chad wick whose financial transactions culminated cul-minated In tho wrecking of an Oberlin bank died In the womans ward in thu Ohio penitentiary at 1005 oclock Thursday night Mrs Chadwlck hart been In a comatose condition somb hours previous to her death and the end catno peacefully No frlendf or relatives waited at her bedside only the prison physician > and her prison nv tcndants Mrs Cassia L Chatl wick whoso maiden riamo was Kllzuhcth lilgley was u native of Woodstock Canada Tn the latter part of 1902 or early In 1303 Mrs Chadwlck In the presence of her husband gave to Ira Reynolds cashier of tho Wndo Park bank of Cleveland a box containing notes signed with the name of Andrew Car angle These forged notes are al IcROd to have amounted to 7500000 Reynolds gave to Mrs Chadwlck n receipt re-ceipt for the papers which described the notes and tho signatures upon them Mrs Chndwlck left wllh Reynolds Rey-nolds ns an explanation of tho existence exist-ence of the notes the statement that she was n natural daughter of Carne BioWith With tho receipt of Reynolds In her possession Mrs Chadwlck went to different dif-ferent banks and many capitalists making loans and paying not only high Interest to the banks but heavy bonuses bo-nuses to tho i nank ofllclals who loaned her tho money Tho extent of thest transactions will never bo known fully but they ran up into the millions They involved men of high standing In the financial world and caused heavy losses to many hanks In November 1904 sho was sued b > a man named Newton of I3rookllne Mass front i whom sine had borrowed a largo amount which she > was unable to pay Other creditors camo down upon her and within a short time she was placed under arrest by tho federal authorities au-thorities on tine charge of conspiring with Charles Mcckwlth the president and A B Spear of a national bank nt Oberlln Ohio which had been substantially substan-tially looted Mrs Chadwick had obtained ob-tained from this Institution such large sums of money that It was compelled to close Its doors causing heavy losses to the depositors and ruining many of them Mrs Chadwlck neckwltli nnd Spear wore Indicted for a variety of offenses of-fenses against the national l banking laws Heckwlth died beforo coming to trial Spear pleaded guilty was sentenced sen-tenced to seven years In tho penitentiary peniten-tiary nnd Is now serving time In Columbus Co-lumbus Ohio Mrs Chndwick was brought to trial on March C 1905 nail after a hearing which lasted for two weeks was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud a national bank and was sentenced to ten years In the penitentiary peniten-tiary Her health which was not good at the time of tho trial failed steadily after Its conclusion |