Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1907 — Chadwick’s Secret Out. [ARTICLE]

Chadwick’s Secret Out.

The Supreme Court at Pittsburg has made public the deposition of the late Gassie L. Chadwick, made while she was in prison, and which had been ordered sealed by a lower court. The opening of this paper was in connection with the suit of the administ&tor of the estate of W. C. Jutte, the Pittsburg coal operator, who committed suicide last year, against" James -W. Friendy-as president of the Pressed Steel Car Company, for an accounting. Mrs. Chadwick said she had borrowed small amounts from Friend for a long time, simply on her story of the vast wealth that Andrew Carnegie had put in trust for her as his relative. Then Friend had asked her to sign an agreement promising to turn over bonds valued ,at $5,000,000, which she said were Meld by Ira Reynolds on a certain date, in consideration for which Friend let her have $87,000 more. Mrs. Chadwick said that she had obtained altogether $798,200 from Friend, and from Frank N. Iloffstot, the vice president of the Pressed Steel Car Company.