South Bend News-Times, Volume 38, Number 93, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 3 April 1921 — Page 26

st'NPAT. u-nii, ::. mi THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES Now I thr Time to Cot Rid cf 7hri i giy spot.. There's no longer th t's:hv. r.o d of feeling a s h. i m d f y-- -.r trrckiT. as Othino In-it I 'rr.r.üi to rA ffmrr y ! rr-.cly spt. Sim ply set an v:r- f : .r -,:,.-;h'.... itrncth- from nr.y .1r t and apply a little of 1' : :.-.. nornlnR nr..! y"u sh'.tili s - ---that fpn th worst f r k! !.v " er-un to disappear. wh; th. I:.-!.;. : fr.ps havp vanished fi.tir I seldom tlit more than r,-. , r.-:d t co.npleTo.v r -l 'hi-, p.n.t pain a beautiful c...r . 7.: -lon. He sur t ask for v.. .7;.-. stronc'h :h.n as this . ! cuarant of nonv J a '. ;.' . f . ; - r AT J j . . - a W7. . A7"m -Or?: '' ' (. "'' ' rfi -'As,Climax to the Frenzied Career of i ragte

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AW0MA:;T roim r0!?cl for .1 tlr.?h on th cd.c of a forryboat, and almost without a sound the waves closed over one who had gone to eternity. A trail of hih finance swincs through many states and totals more than $300.000. Score.? of men and women bled of their sayincs and only an echoing laugh to answer their tears or their cur.-"v?. Oth r nun who trustesl and who loved awake to find they are dupe.-. Ar.d, in Moyamen.sin prison there sits Almeda Everts the weman. And there she will sit, her bus i ne 3 m c n e V in'yrr. en d 1 0 r-v i c t i m s assert, for many Ion- day? to come, if they have their way. For, even though many of them refuse to prosecute, to face the derision that follows th'3 admission by a rr.an that a woman duped him. they want th. satisfaction for the amounts ranir.sr fron: $-000 to )!.",(V() each from which they were separated of kr. w.r.t: that she is in duranco vile. Fo, rivrte-: jetty little thirds ara charged acrnmit .. r from unii5iected sources that, a3 fa:t ehv-r lawyers dispose of ons allegation, another arise. to keep fast locked th bars cf her pri.-on. Her inspiraticr. na Cr."si( Chadwick; tho . method? cf that hi.:h pr;estrs of visionary wenfth were followed by Almeda Kverts. Side by siJ-:, s in a rtranre parallel, their lives are linked: fifteen' years cpart. Alme !a Kvtrta wn not yet 20 years old, tho wife of a rreohanie, wh.n she w."? stirred by tha witchery of wealth shown by Casie Chadwick. How. on the strength f a n-.yth:cal fortune, Mr a! Chadwick had p-r-r.a-id bnnker to ive her millions; how sh.e n ie in jray carriages; how sha dashed h.rre r.v.d triere in ti: autTnobiles cf this day-: how jeueN and luxuries were hers, arouse. the st rar. fro spirit of A I a: e da Evert .s. And. how this cirl built her own fantastic ftery of rieh estat--- and how ?he lured ar.d betrayed men cf wenlf.i and hew, like Cassie Chadv:ck, she fir. ally came to a prison eel! is as exciting as the life story of Alme la's predecessor with the ad led trap- iy of the suicide of the wifa cf Kcbcrt Mvjuntfeid, en- ef the Everts victim.

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Charles Ponzi Fleeced Credulous Investors Out of bullions XVithin Twelve Months.

Cassie Chadwick Collected a Cool Million from Otherwise Astute Business Men.

Almeda Everts, the Petticoated Ponzi, Gathered in $300,000 Before Her Arrest.

Ilcr Husband's Tribute "A rrmarkab'e woman, on ator.i.-hin;- wornn." rc!'ecte ! Wiih'.-.ra V. Ch::?:ibers, her first husband, as !.,? s; -.ek 1 Iiis pipe m tr? parlor of his hr.-r.e up m K rank for i. in the same neighborhod that Alme ia , mt her childhood days. "I cm v.ndcr.-:.;nd t'. f-.-din ;s of that New Jersey loan wh att.r ! hn:.f::i.: her in prison, said: New 1 : me .r :o. .iy. If she speaks to me I canret help :r.:.olf; I will ! .ie te jro lier bail.' If tver there w.t.- a v. . :.;ar. with hypnotic power it is A':v.cda iloert-. In i.er ; re.noe you are help!css mar. of woman. i;:o is r. n han d; :cn:c, shd T.cvcr was. As a uirl she was pasab!y j:ooJlocking, ri.it. my fr.er. :. she has a personality fuch as I rave r. or seen in ary nth. er woman. Let hor 'air. an 1 d.ve every th.ir.f: she say. Out of her mit wen. you wonder what swayed ecu to make a feed of yourself. "1 knew it itartrd. It was about th time of th-' C.-.-.v Chadwick exposure. Shtalked about th- w.-r-an; perhaps she stud. od every act. n i f that r. Vo d swmd.lar. At any rate her whole r.at ir" se. m'd to change in a tlasli. She lear. to hi: vp. nsive r:rs and drive up m J down the itrl(.ti "h-1 bought expensiv

things. In one day si: spent more money than I could earn in a week. I befTfred her to end th" extravacar.ee. She laugheJ end rt plied i " 'Money is the caries! thine to fret in the worli.' "Then we broke. I went my way. She went hers. More than fifteen years have gone sine then and I can speak dispassionately, but sh? was a remarkable women and worthy of better than a prison. Somehow 1 do not blame her, not n bit. And still I know

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ALMEDA EVERTS

Uneducated. Former houe servant. Said to nave taken $300,000 from her victims. Toscd as heiress to vast fortune. Called a hypr.otist. Unusual talker.. Fund of carriages and automobiles. Not hindsome. Ccod dresser. Owned fine bungalow and kept city apartment. Sought business racn as victims. Daring and cocl. Arrested; in prUoru

CA5SIE CHADWICK Uneducated. Once a servant. Got more than $1,000,000 from her dupes. Posed as heiress to vast fortune. Admitted she studied hypnotism. Convincing talker. Used carriages and automobilen. Not handsome. Good dresser. Lived in magnificent home. Had country place. Hankers and business tuen her victims. Daring and cool. Died in prison.

ware river. The police say she was Mrs. Mountford. When Almeda was arrested in her luxurious apartments on North Broad street, Philadelphia, she laughed an 1 asked the police to notify "Bob" Mountford. They

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crur.kcr.r.ess and i;d r.ot go to school five years in ail her life. As a child she was beaten and. frail and anaemic, was "bound out" and sent tJ the country. Today she talks learreoly cn many subjects. Ilcr English is faultless, her voice musical anJ wed modulated. Her eyes are frank, happy, trustful. No society woman cresses in better taste. No political leader is more convincing No clergyman more earnest. But , When Everett Marshall and his wife of New-

field faced the woman in prison and pointed her cut as having taken $2300 of their saving?, she surveyed them through a gold monocle as if entertained; then with a merry laugh, she turned to the captain of detectives and confessed sweetly: "Certainly I took their money, blew it away like bubbles. They believed what I said." Kobert Mountford. of Haddon Heights, N. J., was helpless before this weird woman. He gavt her $5000. He induced his mother to give her $15,000. Although he vas married he becam separated from his wife and, according to the court records, committed bigamy by marrying the Everts woman. A few weeks later a disheartened woman leaped from a ferryboat in the J)elv

explained to him the lon string of charge 5 again?: her. He was amazed. "Why, she sw indled mo ar.d my mother!" he cried. Then he preferred ad. ditional charges against her. This warrant wai served on Almeda. Sha t-miled ever so sweetly.

J "Bob will help mc out," she reiterated. Away from her voice, away from her eyes, away from her charm Mountford was like iron. But he went to the prison. He talked with her. Then he came out, withdrew his charge and set out to aid the woman he knew had duped him. Now Mountford has disappeared. He is dominated by Almeda. So are other victims, or at least they refuse to prosecute. Some, however, are determined to keep the remarkable woman in jail for a long time. Five Kensington mill owners have told the detectives that they have been fieeced. Tha amounts range from SS000 to $15,000 each. Clergymen, doctors, business men, rich women who sought social fame, and vcn taxicab com

panies are listed as victims. How did she do it? Just as Cassie Chadwick did it she did it. There was one diilerence. This woman high financier of later days operated in different otis, Mrs. Chadwick in one. Her stock in trade was a mythical Harjes estate. She was "one of tha heirs." Her share amounted to "hundreds of thousands of dollars." Yes, it was the MorganHarjes financial house of Paris that held her money. Meanwhile she was receiving wonderful tips from the Morgan bank in New Y'ork and her winnings on the stock market ran into vast sum?. Of course she would let her friends in on tha deals and they would soon be wealthy. But she needed a few thousands for pressing needs. Could they accommodate her? So the stream of gold came rolling to the woman who but a few years ago was a house servant, half -starved. X'ictims who came to her handsome bungalow in New Jersey one day saw a check on the Irving Bank of New York for $100,000. It was signed "J. P. Morgan." Almeda tossed it into a corner of the deskr "The local bank does not have fundi to cash it; I will have to wait a few days to gel the money." She was v:itin$r at the home of one w ho ha I too much faith in her. She begged permission to use the telephone. They heard her taik with er broker. "S3 that stock deal oniy netted mc $33,000?" they heard her cry, petulantly. "I was sure it would reach 50,000. Oh, well, just credit it to my account." Later they agreed that Almeda had her finger holding down the receiver. But at tho time it was impressive. $5000 a Year on Taxis! It is the gospel truth that she spent $5003 a year on taxicabs. It was one of her frenzie 1 hebbies. At Atlantic City she had a high salaried chaulfeur to run her cars. Like Cassis Chadwick, she found automobiles impressive. Equally convincing was her tale that she wa3 a niece of the late John G. Johnson, a millionaire Philadelphia lawyer. Now and then she would exhibit a letter from a firm of Washington lawyers telling how swiftly the Harjes estate was being closed up. That helped a whole lot. But the lure of the tips on the stock market was the strongest. There i3 a story that sixteen business men and rich farmer in southern Now Jersey forme 1 a pool an i placed sums ranging fr:m ?10G0 to $3000 h her hands, hoping to profit. They never hear; from the pool. Almeda. Everts was one cf t; few persoru successful in "skinn.ng" A: rant;- '':ty folk. Si u paraded, her rtatc and her : : . k tips before th. eyes of well-to-do men and women. Seme s -she got ii. ore than $10.000 m a very short seaso.. She fed wh.-r. warrants were issued. She went to the Maine surairer resort. Ju-: r.bou-. the time r.f was ott.rig her stage set sh; was arrested in Portland on a charge mad; by .. victim from Pittsburgh. Pa. She we 3 sent . prh-on for nearly a year and a na.f. It is sail that almost every hour of her iur.e in prison waj spent in reading, stu-bying and planning. An 1 when she came out she bean'to organize t:r.2n:j and faith on a large scale. Almeda is confident that be will escape sentence in the present prosecution. Only the ether day she sent out this warning: "Some persons will get me- out of this; they'vj get to." Which may mean a great deal for che is remarkable woman.

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