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Show MRS. CHADWICK BROKEN DOWN 1 A Shadow All That Remains of For- mer Queen of High Finance. m Cloveland. A year behind tho walls fof tho penitentiary has transformed MR8. CA8SIE L. CHADWICK. (As She Appears In Penitentiary Garb and Convict's Number.) -Mrs. Ca8slo L. Chadwlck, formerly of Cloveland, ono of tho most notorious women swindlers In tho criminal an- nals of tho world, from an aristocratic "lady," plumed with all tho gorgeous llnery that thousands of dollars could buy, to a wan, prlson-pallorcd woman, wo-man, broken In spirit and body. By orders from tho government Mrs. Chadwlck Is to bo transferred from tho Ohio penitentiary to tho government gov-ernment prison at Moundsvlllc, W. Va., whore sho will complete her ten-year ten-year sentonco for the ruin brought about by her nstoundlng financial transactions. For tho first tlmo since tho second Imprisonment of Mrs. Chadwlck a photograph af tho so-called witch of flnanco has escaped boyond tho offices of-fices of the penitentiary, whore tho prison records nro kept. It was taken ta-ken In anticipation of tho transfer of tho woman to another prison and shows tho famous femalo swindler as sho actually appears adorned with a convict's numbor and dressed In prison clothes. Less than three years ago Mrs. Chadwlck was living In a palatial homo. Sho was driving about tho streets of this city In an automobllo and borrowing liumcnso sums of money as though It woro water. Sho would hardly be recognized now by those with whom sho engaged In big transactions In tho days of hor regal splondor. r |