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20 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 KALOLA Continues to be praised by thousands for wonderful cures perfected. Kalola Cures Indigestion, Constipation, Liver and Kidney diseases by removing the cause. We have hundreds of testimonials by home people who have been cured by KALOLA. Half teaspoonful Kalola taken occasionally before breakfast in half glass warm water insures perfect health and appetite. KALOLA removes all blotches and pimples from skin. Many young ladies in Savannah and elsewhere have been made PRKTTIER by using Kalola. “Take Kalola Six Days and Eat Anything You Want." Not equaled as a morning laxative. For sale by all druggists, 50c and 11, KALOLA COMPANY. 21*23 Bajr Street, West. .... Savannah, Ga. A *O. UIIKM'I CM, VU rr.ai.iii mm 4 Qmmrwml Hiiugar. at Ontario. "Betty” Bingley appeared 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 MAN AN OFFICE. Candidate Vnl.a for Mia Opponent and 1..,at. 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. l,*onnrd thought It would ba nle. to 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. lMM*i laHNWilf. Some Furniture Snaps For the final run of Holiday business, this Great Store puts on some specials that are sure to be quickly taken. Every department is full of solid values, and these specials are hints of the general condition of prices in this establishment. Our electric passenger elevator will be in operation to-morrow, enabling us to handle greater crowds than ever. £Tliis handsome Rocker made of maple with oak finish, with seat up holstered in imitation leather—A Rocker that is beautifully orna mented and built for good long service, at %\2k Appropriate Presents. There are many things throughout this great furniture store suitable for Christmas presents. We invite our friends and patrons to inspect our stock, even if they are not ready to buy. Goods bought as presents will be held for Christmas Eve delivery, if desired. , 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 FOR THE HOLIDAYS $26.00 to New York AND RETURN. $32.00 to Boston AND RETURN VIA OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY Meals and Stateroom Accommodations Included Without Extra Charge . First tickets will be sold at these rates for ships leaving Savannah Dec. 19 and 2 1, limited to Jan. 7,1905, for return passage. LOWEST RATES. Largest and Finest Ships in the Coast wise Service. For tickets and additional information apply at Ticket Office, 17 Bull street. 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 SPECIAL BARGAINS Little Bissel Carpet Sweepers for little Girls, 10c. Children’s Morris chairs beauties, $2.50 Dotted Swiss Curtains, with ruffled edge, 98<". Morris Chairs uphols tered in figured velours, four adjustments, at $5.00 Shaving Stands in Oak, Oval Mirror. A nice gift for a gentleman, $7.50 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 I arid hors# aland stIII * #*#•#!* lltil |4Vfl • llr. Aa on# i-uiniiiM oju(#tnplf(M ttt* l'.#>i'i)Mti 4, in (It# lirHe ||u**ufvi, tlt*§r irt f iu< ti wlilt th of a for (ht flflUlVi Her# Nf* I,MU/ is| l/i uO yrn oi4, mm #o* CHILD!US' m CUB, a I j'l Painted red, with ar- n ) tistic decorations— B j strongly built and aw / strong argument in Q rt helialf of the snaps of-, 7 fered by this store; "*' * now on at —•— 24c. trr 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. rooßsxs % RlGltT'x^ll let Mml >Mti\ Ikerili BOOK WAr A M*l*f u bßoui Ik SHLT-aLiLOaPBK “Thnlhm'ShMt nils Men!)' * Merely dip In Ink, prow with thumb and fountain pen la tilled. NO DROPPKR, no unscrewing of Joints, no pulling of plugs, no taking apart to clean, nor overflowing or dropping of Ink, no Jarring to start flow; will not roll off a (doping deak. Costa no more than ordinary fountain pen* of equal grade. Regular pen, $3.00; Large, $4.00 Extra Large, $, r >.oo ; prepaid anywhere; guaranteed. Use it 30 days, your money back If not perfectly sat isfactory. Address all orders to N. ST. JOHN. Agent. 274 Orant Ht., Atlanta, Oa. Seed Oats, Seed Rye, Bee Keepers’ and Poultry Supplies. HARDEN &KOURK, Hay, Grain and Feed, IIS Maf Mfre), Wsk. 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