Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1907 — MRS. CHADWICK DEAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MRS. CHADWICK DEAD.

Wumau Who Startled Banking W«rld Exi>lre» in Prison. Mrs. Cassie Chadwick, whose finauTHTexploils at’one - ! line startled the world, died in the women's ward of Thursday night, unattended by any save the prison physician and hospital nurses. The decline in Mrs. Chadwick’s health began almost from the time she entered the penitentiary on Jan. 12, 1906, sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment She fretted incessantly over her confinement and worried about her troubles until it became almost Impossible for her to steep. Her last illness began three weeks ago. She was confined to a cot in the hospital of the women's ward from that time until her death. The financial exploits of Mrs. Chstd wlck startled Hie country in the fall -ofi 1904, when they were brought into publicity by means of a receivership suit brought by Herbert B. Newton, .of Brookline, Mass., who held some of the spurious securities upon which she had built up a colossal credit. Exposure after exposure followed The Citizens' National Bank of Oberlin, Ohio, which lost heavily in the swindle, went to the wall and President C. T. Beckwith died, it belijg rejiofted "that he had committed suicide. Mrs. Chadwick had represented herself to have close financial relations with Andrew Carnegie,

and at one time claimed to be bis daughter. His supposed signature on a note for $7,000,000 figured in the case and for some time remained ati element of mystery. 1 Circumstances indicated that Mrs. Chadwick was formerly Elizabeth Bigley of Woodstock, Ont., and that under the name of Mme. Devere she had served a term in the Ohio penitentiary for forgery. When released from prison s eh had made the acquaintance of Dr. Chadwick, of Cleveland, and had been married to hlpi. The physician, it appeared, was unaware of her financial duplicity. Mrs. Chadwick was arrested in the Holland House, New York, and was extradited to Ohio, where she was tried and convicted on March 11, 1905. To test the efficiency of balloons in warfare Captain C. De’F. Chandler of the Signal Corps made an ascens.on at Washington and was in the air al>out four hours, traveling twenty-two miles The owners of the hull of the excursion steamboat General Slocum, which was burned in the harbor at New York in June, 1904, causing the death of more than 1,000 persons, have received permission from the government authorities to change the name of the boat to the Maryland. 4 r The general federation of labor in France has distributed a manifesto violently attacking thr anny. The government will make an effort to discover and prosecute the authors.

MRS. CASSIE L. CHADWICK.