| Show no freads or relatives at bedside of woman who gained national reputation as a swindler woman claimed to be daughter of andrew carneg e and succeeded in bunco ng fidanc ers and bankers out of large sums of money columbus ohio mrs cassie chad wick whose financial transactions cul in the wrecking of an bank died in the woman s ward in tho ohio penitentiary at 10 05 clod thursday night mrs chadwock had been in a comatose condition for some ho irs previous to her death and the end came i no friends or relatives waited at her bedside only the prison physician and her prison ai mrs cassee L chadwick whose u maiden name was elizabeth bigley was a native of woodstock canada in the latter part of 1902 or earl in 1903 mrs chadwick in the presence of her husband gave to ira reynolds cashier of the wade bark bank of cleveland a box containing notes signed with the name ot andrew car negie these forged notes are al iegel to have amounted to 7 reynolds gave to mrs chadwick a re ceist for the papers which described the notes and the signatures upon them mrs chalwill lett with as an explanation of the exist ence of the notes the statement that she was a natural daughter of carn gie with the receipt of reynolds in her possession mra chadwick went to dif ferent banks and man capitalists making loans and paying not only high interest to the banks but heavy bonuses to the bank officials who loaned her the money the extent of transactions will never be known fully but they ran up into the mill ons they involved men of high standing fn the financial world and caused heavy losses to many banks in november 1904 she was sued b a man named newton of brookline mass from whom she had borrowed a large amount which she was unable to pay other creditors came down upon her and within a short time she was placed under arrest by the federal au thorl ties on the charge of conspiring with charles beckwith the president and spear of a national bank at oberlin ohio which had been bially looted mrs chadwick had ob bained from this institution such large sums of money that it was compelled to close its doors causing heavy losses to the depositors and ru ning many of them mrs chadwick beckwith and spear were indicted for a va bety of of tenses against the nil banking laws beckwith died before coming to trial spear pleaded guilty was sen fenced to seven years in the penitent biary and is now serving time in co lumb s oh mrs chadwick as brought to trial on maich 6 1905 and after a bearing which lasted for two weeks was found guilty of conspiracy to a national bank and was sentenced to ten years in the penitent lary her health which a not at he time of the trial failed steadily after its conci slon |
