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CHECKERED LIFE
OF MRS. CHADWICK
A SWINDLER FROM GIRLHOOD
TO GET SOMETHING FOB NOTHING
HKK LIFE AIM.
Her Power Over Men Began When
She Wa* a School Girl—She Then
lel the Same Taction That She
F.uiploj-ed in the Oherlin Bank
Cane—Han Lived Under a Dono
Aliases and Operated Bold Swin
dles l Oder all of Them—Her First
Marriage Was an Irish Heiress
and a Doctor Was Her Victim.
Her Career as Madame DeVere.
New York. Dec. 17. —Cassie L. Chad
wick, Elizabeth Hoover Chadwick, or
Mrs. D. Leroy Shippen Chadwick, born
the daughter of a farmer in reduced
circumstances, is now a central figure
around whom federal and state au
thorities are steadily weaving a net of
criminal charges. It is a fitting climax
to a life in which events ihave fol
lowed events so quickly as to leave
the mind bewildered.
Daniel Bigley, in the early 'so's, lived
on a small farm at Eastwood, province
of Ontario. He was poor and had a
large family, eight children in all, and
the fifth was a daughter, born in 1857
and christened Elizabeth, known to the
other members of the family as "Bet
ty"
"Betty” Bigley was never a particu
larly beautiful girl, and from "early
years suffered slightly from deafness.
She also spoke with a lisp. She was
briglht, very bright. At school she was
easily a leader in her classes, but she
was not popular. "Betty” Bigley was
always strange—"peculiar,” her school-
MME. DE VEHE BEFOHE BEING SENT TO PRISON.
mates declared. She had a positive
mania for fine clothing, finer than her
father could give her, and for Jew
elry. She was not like other girls.
Wore Boy's Clothes.
Once she went to a barber shop and
had her long hair cropped short and
actually donned boy’s clotlhing. She
was always scheming, they said, to ob
tain something for nothing.
She carried cards which set forth
that she was “Miss Bigley, heiress to
$15,000.’’ Even then her power over
men was manifest. She obtained credit
from local merchants of Woodstock,
about eight miles from her home, and
one day she obtained $250 on a note al
leged to have been signed by a wealthy
farmer near Brantford. When that
note came due she took it up with an
other note, purporting to have been
signed by Richard Kip of Woodstock.
When this note came due there was
no money to pay it, and the girl, in
November, 1879, was arrested for for
gery. The case attracted much atten
tion. She was defended by Sergt. Fin
kle, now a crown judge. The defense
was insanity, and in the trial many
witnesses were found to come forward
with testimony as to her oddness and
eccentricity. She was acquitted and
never thereafter lived permanently in
Woodstock.
A Swindler in Her Girlhood.
One of David Bingley's daughters
married a man of the name of Camp
bell and moved to Cleveland. 0., In
the seventies. A week after the trial
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at the Campbell home. Mrs. Camp
bell had come forward, declaring that
! she uTmld attempt the reform of her
I sister. The girl at once set out to learn
! dress, utting. living quietly at the
I Campbell home. It was thought she
I had put aside all her inordinate desire
I for finery and jewels.
But this was a wrong belief. In-
I stead her appetite increased. With
the school for the basis, she began a
campaign on the money lenders of the
city. Jewels, gowns and dresses soon
became hers. When her personal credit
ran out she coolly took her sister’s
name and began to get more money
by giving chattel mortgages on the
Campbell household goods. Mr. Camp
bell was well to do, and she was enabled
to run large accounts at dry goods
stores.
Posed ns nn Irish Heiress.
In Cleveland in 1880 there was a Dr.
W. S. Springsteen, and In some way
"Betty” Bigley met him. Then she
was an heiress to a large estate in
Ireland, visiting relatives in Cleve
land, and Dr. Springsteen paid court
to her. They were married in 1880,
'and on the wedding night the bride
groom had the disagreeable experience
of seeing a regiment of instalment men
descend upon the place and take away
not oniy the trousseau of the bride
and much of her furniture, but even
the valuable wedding presents that she
was supposed to have received from
wealthy friends in Ireland. That end
ed the Springsteen romance, and the
physician left her. W’ithin a day the
Campbell chattel mortgage became
known and the sisters parted. Mrs.
Springsteen brought suit for separation
against her husband and lost it. He
obtained a divorce from
her.
A Fascinator of Men.
Mrs. Springsteen left Cleveland soon
after that and began to travel about
the country. Her power of fascination
had. it is said, increased. For more
than a year a Lydia Clingan, lived a
life that brought her into the acquaint
anceship of many men.
One incident has been mentioned
about this time. "Mrs. Mazie Bagley”
appeared at Erie, Pa., and became ill.
She obtained credit, money and other
necessities on the usual plea and then
departed. She was located in Cleve-
land and bills reached her there. Back
came a letter signed Miss Clingan.
“Poor Mazie is dead. A large con
course followed her to the grave. I
thought you had heard. She was a
splendid girl, but, unfortunately weak
minded.
Mrs. Alice Bestado, clairvoyant, ap
peared in an expensive suite of offices
in the Crocker Block, Cleveland, in
1883. Her office speedily became a
meeting place for many men, some
of them well known in the business
world. Then began the URuai cam
paign against the money lenders and
merchants. She lived expensively and
her jewels were the admiration of the
city.
Id-red Under Many Atlases.
Another year saw a Mrs. Scott, liv
ing In another section of the town, but
a clairvoyant, and recognized as Mrs.
Bestado. Mrs. Clingan soon afterward
took other apartments, and so did
Mrs. Bagley, when creditors became
importunate, and the last of all was
Mrs. C. L. Hoover. Mrs. Hoover was
the last name to be used in Cleveland
In the eighties, and to sisters and fam
ily In Cleveland as well as in Canada
word went that C. L. Hoover, an
aged and wealthy man, had married
her, only to die soon after. There was
a son. He is her only child. To dif
ferent persons she told different sto
ries. once that he was the son of an
attorney, at another time that his
father was a banker.
Cleveland became too warm in 1888,
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 18. 1904.
and that saw the disappearance of
Mrs. C. L. Hoover, etc., from the
Luke City and the reappearance of
Mme. De Vere. chairvoyant. at Tole
do. O.
She arrived there accompanied by a
Mme. De Frey and a lame woman,
said to be her sister, and one child, a
boy, then very young.
As Madame De Vere.
Mme. De Vere's career stands out
boldly and ends wi‘h a sentence to the
penitentiary for forgery, but hardly a
day passes now that some new inci
dent does not come out. Primarily,
she was a clairvoyant, foreseeing the
future, but beyond that she was many
things. Chiefly She was an heiress to
a great estate in England, tied up by
litigation and driven to making a live
lihood. A grocer of the name of King
believed in this and gave her money.
Another man, whom the police could
not tell about, once gave her $20,000 in
negotiable securities for a certain pur
pose, and only because the family
learned of this was the property recov
ered by the police.
Mme. De Vere had several assistants
in her clairvoyant parlors—young
women. Therfe were reports that some
prominent Ohioans had preferred to
pay considerable money rather than
have the fact of their visits become
known to their families. There were
at least two divorces in Cleveland In
which Mme. De Vere was accused of
having a hand, and one of the men
has since lived abroad. It all culmi
nated with the Lamb incident, which
sent Mme. De Vere to prison.
Swindled an Exprexn Clerk.
Joseph Lamb was an express clerk,
married, with five children. Afterward
he Said he met Mme. De Vere and vis
ited her at her home. Soon afterward
she told him she needed money to go
to Philadelphia. She wanted $1,500, and
Lamb raised it by giving her his sav
ings of SI,OOO, besides SIOO cash he had
in hand and his note for the balance.
She returned to the city after a week
and began asking him for more money.
“I really am Mrs. Florida Blythe of
Cleveland,” Lamb swore she told him.
Mrs. Blythe was a very wealthy wom
an and when she asked him to obtain
money on notes purporting to have
been signed by Mrs. Blythe, he did
not hesitate. Forty thousand dollars
was raised in that way, and then
came an arrest of both in January,
1890. The notes were alleged to be
forgeries.
Lamb at once told everything he
knew and the jury acquitted him on
the ground that he had been a dupe.
Mme. De Vere was sentenced to nine
and one-half years' imprisonment in
the Ohio penitentiary. She served three
and one-half years of It, when she was
paroled by Gov. McKinley.
Her Parole Reports.
On her parole Mme. De Vere was
required to report to the prison offi
cials at regular intervals, and the first
two reports came from Woodstock, On
tario.
"I am living quietly with my mother,
Mary Ann Bigley, at Woodstock,” says
the report of 1894.
In the following year came the re
port: “I am stopping with my sister,
Mrs. Alice York, at Cleveland.”
Her life thereafter Is not definitely
known. Some time afterward. In
Cleveland, there appeared a Mrs. C.
L. Hoover, a clairvoyant and mas
seuse. There was little comment over
her. She lived elegantly and made few
friends.
It was not until 1897 that the Chad
wick end of the case developed. In
Cleveland at the time lived a middle
aged physician of the name of Dr. Le
roy Shlppen Chadwick. His father
had been a wealthy man. and left the
son real estate, among which was a
fine home In Euclid avenue, at Oenes
see street. Dr. Chadwick was a wid
ower and the father of a daughter. He
was not strong, being a sufferer from
an Injury to his leg.
He called on the masseuse for pro
fessional treatment. It was not long
thereafter that Mrs. Hoover became
Mrs. Chadwick, and the stage was set
for the larger financial operations that
have just culminated In the arrest In
this.city.
COURTESY COST THIS
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New York. Dec. 17.—Courtesy eo.t
Charles I.o>miid a political office. He
voted for hi* opponent and loat, Thla
I* the way the affair ended:
Lester Smith (It.) ig
Robert Lawrence (D.) R|
Charles Leonard <D.) ~V)
Th# tine* were peeking election aa
representative In <’ol.bro.tk, and Mr.
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vote for Mr. Hmtili, whom h* adinlrep.
Now he ttgiiiea H that If tie had voted
the attiighl la-one ipile ticket the trio
would hav. been tied, with II vote#
*cb, .nd a epr< taJ election would hav.
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operation to-morrow, enabling us to handle greater crowds than ever.
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There are many things throughout this great
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We invite our friends and patrons to inspect our
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WITH THE LONDONERS
IN OLD LONDON
BY EUGENIA ESTiLL.
London, Nov. 28. —London has been
wrapped in mist or fog during Novem
ber, and now for three days the snow
has covered the housetops and ground.
It is only when they have both ice and
fog that Londoners complain of the
weather. People do not mind the mist
or fog, and if the sun makes the fog
look a little yellow—"pea soup” they
call it—they think it a “fine day.”
Some statistician has calculated that
a quarter of an hour's delay of the
“trams” by fog of a million and a half
of business people amounts to forty
two years.
It is very amusing to the English
man, or woman, to have an American
tell them their nationality. "Oh, I can
tell that by your accent.” is the smil
ing reply. A lady, who has traveled
extensively over the continent, an Eng
lishwoman, said: "I usually know
when an American woman is around:
they have such loud voices and such
a twang.” “But,” she added “when
their voice is soft and low I rather
like the accent, especially when it is
not affected, it is really pleasing.”
The beason of I’luni Puddings.
This is the time when the English
housewife makes her Christmas -pud
dings and hangs them up to season.
Sometimes one of them is kept for
Easter. In many parts of England it
is the custom of the people
to watch the old year out
and welcome the new year, by
going to the homes of their friends and
amusing themselves with singing and
enjoying the good things usual at that
time of the year, with which the ta
ble is bountifully spread. This is kept
up until the early hours, and is done
by the women as well as the men.
It Is considered a good omen for
the year if some friend that is par
ticularly liked, is the first to walk
through the house just on the stroke
of the new year, and contribute some
thing—if it is only a lump of coal flung
on the fire.
The Lord Mayor’s Show.
For some years past the incoming
Lord Mayor of London has entered
upon his duties without any parade.
But this year Mr. Pound decided that
he would revive the ancient Lord May
or's show in all its splendor. For
weeks his much trimmed suit was
exhibited in the windows. The
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cloth could scarcely be seen for the
gold lace and fringe. Headed by the
Royal Artillery Band, the procession
left the Guild Hall. The Lord Mayor
rode In an old-fashioned coach of blue
and gold, drawn by six white horses,
which makes one almost believe that
the pumpkin and six mice have been
changed into Cinderella’s coach.
There were four gorgeous floats—
Egypt, with her sphinx and priests;
Greece, with living representations of
its art: Ancient Rome, with its statue
of Victory, and England, with a beau
tiful girl symbolizing Britannia. There
were many other features in the pro
cession. After passing through the
principal streets they arrived at the
Lower Courts, where the new Lord
Mayor was presented to the lord jus
tices by the chief lord justice. In the
evening there was a banquet, where
many speeches were made.
Among the most notable guests pres
ent was Lord Lansdowne. After speak
ing on the subject of the disastrous
Incident of the North sea. where the
trawlers were fired upon by the Rus
sian ships, he referred to the treaty of
arbitration with tlhe United States,
which the American ambassador had
proposed.
Next to the King.
The Lord Mayor is always elected
from among the aldermen and if he
does not accept is fined SI,OOO. His
salary Is $50,000, but he often spends
twice that amount. He Is very sel
dom elected for more than one
year, never for three. In the City
of London, he ranks next to the King.
The Lady Mayoress, ranking next to
the Queen. In this instance Mrs.
Pound's children and grandchildren
acted as maids of honor. Mr. Pound
has a large shop where leather geods
of all kinds are sold. It is a very
fortunate circumstance, if during his
term of office a royal visitor comes to
England, as that means that the may
or will be knighted or made a baronet
As the King and Queen of Portugal
are visiting the King, perhaps Mr.
Pound may be honored in that way.
In any case Englishmen are doubly
sure that a Pound is a sovereign, at
least In London.
Why There Are Lena Dltomm.
There are not as many divorces In
England as in America, perhaps for the
reason that men find out before the
ceremony, their mistake. Sometimes
It is the wonfan who makes the dis
covery.
Every day the papers contain several
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items in which the bridegroom has
failed to make his appearance at the
appointed hour. Nothing is ever heard
of him again. The epidemic is not con
fined to any class. It attacks both
high and low. The retiring Lord
Mayor’s daughter, who acted as Lady
Mayoress in place of her mother, had
made preparation for a most brilliant
wedding, and a day or two before the
marriage, the groom disappeared and
no one knows his where'abouts. A pre
vious marriage was rumored, but the
affair was hushed up, being “aired”
only one day in the papers.
Even now and then some apostle of
the “Handicap to Marriage,” arises,
gives his opinion on the extravagance
of women, their foibles their want of
intellect and so forth, and after getting
some notoriety, goes the usual way—
gets married to find out if it really is
lsc|.ThSs is the case of Mr.Brereton who
wrote the following in his first letter of
the "Handicaps to Marriages,” and in
seven weeks after, became a Benedict
and as a local paper had It, "walked
down the aisle with his bride, his face
radiant, and not a ti’ace of penitence
for deserting his first principles.”
“It is a wise man that can change his
opinions when an occasion arises.
"The women in fact, have put up
the price of marriage script so high,
that men to-day, cannot, or will not,
bid.
“If he (the husband) has an intellect,
he must leave it with his hat in the
hall.”
Perhaps this explains it. She was a
widow.
Hall Caine’* “The Prodigal Son.”
Hall Caine’s latest novel. “The Prod
igal Son,” has aroused much feeling,
and columns of the dally press are
filled with letters on “Christian Hope,”
“Human Responsibility” and “Overrul
ing Justice,” inquire, "Do we get our
deserts. Religion, philosophy and ag
nosticism play and important part In
these discussions.
Someone writes that If suffering and
fighting against sin Is good for us,
"we are slightly Incoherent In striv
ing to prevent their occurrence.”
A poor widow with three little ones
to support Inquires why Is she suffer
ing when she has been trying honest
ly to take care of herself and children,
and see nothing before them but star
vation.?”
Another writer claims that we should
trust Providence which “doeth all
things well.” And from Herbert Spen
cer's Autobiography comes the quota
tion, “As regards the ultimate nature
of things, or the origin of them, my
position is that I know nothing about
it. and must be content in my igno
rance.”
While others admit that we suffer
from the sins and ignorance of our an
cestors, or that we suffer rightly for
our own misconduct—get our deserts,
or that we have sinned against God
and that He will pardon If we repent,
yet there are other inquirers who al
low, while all or each one may be
right, there comes the query, "What Is
it all about? Why were we put here
at all? Why were we and the world
created?”
The Buddhist also gives his reason
for believing In the transmigration of
the soul, that It Is both a means of
punishment and purification before the
final peace of oblivion.
The Rossetti Episode.
Beside the moral involved in the
story, the author has been condemned
for using an episode In the life of his
friend, Daniel Gabriel Rossetti, the
poet. Rossetti, coming home ons night,
found his wife dying from an over
dose of some drug, and fearing that his
neglect had been perhaps the cause,
had buried with her, between her hair
and cheek, a volume of poems which
he had Just written. He thought that
the time spent on them should have
been devoted to her, and this act would
be an expiation of his fault. Several
years after, his friends persuaded him
to get the manuscript and publish it.
This he did. and It Is this Incident that
has brought upon Hall Caine the
charge of disloyalty to his friend. He
defend# himself by saying that every
one knew it, so that he did
not betray him, and besides, his art
allowed him to uaa material of that
kind.
In mV letter lo the Morning News
of Nov. , In speaking of the safety
with which one gets through the con
gested streets of lyindon, credit should
have been given to Ihe pollcs, whose
raised hand is equalled only by that
of ths King's. At tils command man
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Cooking Exhibition Monday
An expert demonstrator will show the great
merits of a Majestic Range at our store through
out the week. Housekeepers and others inter
ested are invited to call and luueh with us.
Gifts to Patrons.
Christmas we will give to our white
patrons a handsome Buck’s Steel
Range, aud to our colored patrons
a fine Brass Bed complete. In
either case a ticket is given with
every 50c. cash purchase or pay
ment on account.
hibition, after a lifetime spent to
prevent just such a desecration. For
the ancient Egyptian really lived to
die. He bestowed much more atten
tion on his tomb than he did on his
dwelling. The tomb was begun ear
ly in life, while he had health, time,
and money to spend upon it. It was
built of stone or hewn out of the
rock at the base of the mountain, dec
orated with sculptured and painted
walls. When the time came that his
body should be carried across the sa
cred Nile, there was the procession of
priests, friends, and relatives, furni
ture, tables of meat, fruits, and vege
tables, flowers, costly jars, jewels, mus
ical instruments, and many other
things that he loved, or that would be
useful to him in his future state.
There was the chapel for memorial
service, and below this the "pit” en
tered by a shaft, in which the body
was placed with all the offerings.
Then the opening was walled up.
The Mummy’* Fate.
Yet after all this care and prepara
tion to preserve his mummied body
ready for the soul to enter a sec
ond time, or as often as his bad deeds
required for their purification, he is
exposed to the practical gaze of the
twentieth century. Yet, he also be
lieved in a God, who manifested him
self In various ways, and who would
require that his conscience should be
weighed in the balance against a feath
er, the symbol of law. Woe to him if
his good deeds did not balance evenly
with the feather; for then must he
suffer again, instead of entering tho
Egyptian heaven, and be absorbed into
the Divine Intelligence, and be at peace
forever. Here also is the mummies of
Seto the First, B. C., 1368, who built
the Hal! of Columns at Kamak.
(The authorities have tried to pre
serve these columns, but a recent re
port from Egypt says that for the
sake of future generations, a higher
wall will have to be built to preserve
the overflow of the Nile. This will
cause the inundation of the temple,
and one of the most wonderful works
of ancient skill and art will be lost
to the world.)
The mummy of Rameses the Second,
the supposed oppressor of the Israel
ites, and that of Thothomes,
the Third, who caused to be
built, the two colossal statues of him
self, which the Greeks named the
statues of Memnon, repose in this
museum.
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