The Rev. Dr. Charles A. Eaton, then
pastor of the Euclid Avenue Baptist
Church in Cleveland?the church at
tended by John D. Rockefeller?intro
duced her to his nephew, a lawyer in
Boston. This lawyer in turn intro
duced her to Herbert D. Newton, a
Brookline banker, who proved to boH
the first accosted by Cassie Chadwick.
who Insisted that everything she said
be proved to his satisfaction.
Dr. Chadwick, always in the back-!
had ,eft for Eur?Pe. taking
with him his daughter by his first wife. I
Mrs. Chadwick. preparing to follow, I
:ntemint0 ne*ot'ations in Brookline
for $..00,000. She got the money and I
was in the Holland House, New York
city, when the notes fell due. Newton
and others cam- to New York, de
manded the money, failed to get it and !
sued the hitherto impregnable Cassie '
Then Cleveland woke up. Then the
country woke up. For the first time:
i"V'ZtlTn* K0URht dlrcct information
from Mr. Carnegie. He told them he!
bad never s?en the woman in his lifol
and knew her only through the news- 1
paper accounts of her bewildering1
ach evements. He added that it was
obvious that his own credit must be
good when the appearance of his name !
on paper could coax a couple of mil-!
110ns out of bank vaults. Mr Carne I
Kie laughed at his own observation"!
but the bankers didn't.
She was tried in the United States I
ourt In Cleveland and sentenced to
ten years in the Ohio State Peniten
tiary, whence she had emerged twelve
years before. She died in prison and
her body was taken to the little Cana
">wn where "he was born and
there buried.
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