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(James Creelman In New Tork World.) at IJ. through the critical business A hours of Friday I aat In the room with Thomaa W. Uwion, inaatar aplrlt In th present extraordinary war against Standard OH finance In Wall street Although I aat In the room almost from the tlma the a took market opened until luns; attar It closed, not onoe did Mr. Lawson show the slightest sign of excitement over market affairs. Strong as an ox, olaer-eyed. tranquil, smiling. 1he man who had moved the financial market downward against the will of the greatest combination of capital the world has ever seen, bore himself like one absolutely confidant of success. The bunch of blue cornflowers In hta button hole was not fresher than he, although on the previous day he had fought through one of the greatest battles In the history or speculation, had made an hour-and-a-haif speech at a night ban iuet. rs,C one to bed after midnight and risen before 6 In the morning. In that one day he bad forced nearly X. 000.000 ahares of stock into the market in New York. "My one Instrument is publicity," he said. "It is the most powerful weapon In the world. With It I have been able to strike with some of the power which eighty millions of Americana possess vhn they are wide awake and In earn est. Only a eglsalng. "This week's work Is only the begin ning of a demonstration that the secrecy of the frehxled finance system under the cover of which the savings of the people gathered Into banks, trust Insti tutions and insurance companies have been used by the Standard Oil crowd "to rob the people through the stock market cannot succeed agolnsi publicity. Ins people only need light to save them selves. "At the beginning of the week I ad vised the people of the United States to sell Amalgamated Copper and the other pool stocks. It was ths first step In the final realisation of plana I had been maturing for 10 years. Since then, against the whole force of the billions and billions commanded by the Standard Oil. system. Amalgamated had dropped from 12 Into tne 0s. I give the people my word, which I have never yet broken, that not once in that time have I sold a share of Amalgamated stock. Not only that, but 1 have actually bought large blocks of Amalgamated In order to steady the market and prevent too great and too sudden a panic, so that my friends everywhere mlgot be able to get out without complete ruin. But for that I believe we would have had a panic greater than the Northern Pa cific crash. "I simply wsnt out Into the public square and told the people the truth. 1 was in a position to tell the truth. 1 knew the methods by which they hsd been robbed. I knew thst ruin was star ing them In the face unless they acted quickly. sat SM ,000 Advertising. 1 advertised the fact over my signa ture In the newspapers of New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles. I cabled the advertisement to London. All this coat, with Incidental expenses, something like J92.000: "The frightened leaders and agents of the 'system' spread reports that I was in Isague with the leading plungers snd manipulators of Wall street, that I was' making a mere stock raid, that I was trying to "shake down' Mr. Rogers. The truth la that I have no partners. Not a soul knew my plans untU my first advertisement sppeared. I have no price, for there can be no peace now until the whole rotten scheme of fren aled finance Is smashed and things srs brought back to their natural honest level. I am in deadly earnest. No man knows better than I do how great a service I am rendering to the American people. "Th National City bank put an art vertissment In the newspapers In which they offered Amalgamated Copper at 1 100 a share 76,0Ov.O00 shares. That bank and Its officers were responsible for the description of the property which I signed. They would have done better to have taken 126. ooo. twin of the money of their depositors and thrown It in the grate. Oovernment Mast MoMee. 'What do I mean? I mean that th City National bank is subject to law executed by the federal government. 1 mean that Theodore Roosevelt Is run ring this government Just now. I mean that the government Is bound to take notice of great crlmea against the poo Die. I mesn that there Is a terrible reckoning for the 'system' at hsnd ." Mr. Lawson stood squarely upon his heels, the Incarnation of strength and . "urage The square head, high and wide at the top, the long line of the Jaw and broad fighting chin, the small ears standing alertly out behind the big blue gray eyea. the big flit teeth, the strong rtoee. large firm mouth, sinewy neck, hairy bands, broad, deep chest, power fully curved thighs, and the eteady mire these were eloquent of strength, determination and concentration. There was a black pearl in his cravat Ml an almost priceless canary -colored aiaaond sparkling OS his little finger , 7 , 1 J ssssssssss l Lawson Heart the Ticker's Story by Telephone. i 1 Lawson as He Appears in Conversation. j it. - - -- Hs wore grey striped troussrs and a black coat and vast across which wss a beaded gold watch chain. Everywhere In hla.smin were flowers, roses, lilies snd bunches of the famous Lawson pink ths flower for which be once paid 130,000. A few minutes before I saw Mr. Law son 1 had been in his office in State street. Downstairs wss a mob of specu lators, feverish, Jostling, loud-voiced I'pstalra stood Mr. Lawson's secretary at his desk, surrounded by costly glided bronzes, calling to Mr. Lawson through a telephone the prices of the opening market. Here was a 14,000 status of Csessr crossing the Rubicon; there Fred erick the Or eat on horseback, between them George Washington. Joan of Arc In steel armor: a group of frenxled Ro man racers, and in the midst of them a bronxe group representing a bull and a bear at a stock-ticker snd a group of helpless lambs. Through ths open door could be seen pictures of dogs and horses and yachts some of the famous things upon which Mr. Lawson haa spent millions of dollars and beyond them savage shields, spears ana otner weapons of warfare gathered from the ends of the earth. In the midst of this picturesque scene stood a pals young man talking awlftly In low tones as ths prices which indl rated the movement of the battle In the New York stock exchange came to him through the telephone. Xaawsoa at Telephone. But when I reached the room of the master spirit there wss no trace of the fight to be seen. Not In all Boaton waa there a quieter place. Only a heap of record books on the floor, another heap of telegrams and letters on the long table, a bright ooal fire In the grate, the faint smell of flowers and the occasional tinkle of the telephone which Mr. Law- son snswered In firm, quiet monosylla bles. The man whom I had expected to find haggard, pale, wild-eyed and excited In the center of a nervous hurricane, was rosy-cheeked, cheerful snd apparently as free from care as though he had never heard of Wall street. He spoks rapidly but In an even voice, occasionally pacing the floor and sometimes gesturing or setting his bsnds firmly on his hips He snswered questions promptly and with an' almost boyish appearance of frankness It would be hard to imagine a more masculine, compact snd concen trated personality. This ! the man who left school rn Cambridge at the age of 12, walked Into Boston with his books under his arm and secured a tl-a-week position as an office boy almost on the very spot where after tt years he has worked himself up Into a position from which hs feels able to captain the fight against Standard Oil and Its allies. Hs owns a palace in Boeton filled with works o art, he has a 00-acre farm on Cape Cod with seven miles of fences, 100 horses each one of whom he can call by name 1(0 dogs, and a building for training his animals larger than Madison Square garden. Some of his horses are worth many thousands of dollars apiece. Even the experts of the German government who examined Dreamwold the other day were amaaed at lta costliness and per fection. Within 4t hours Mr. Lawson wrote and published a large Illustrated book analysing his farm and gave it to his German visitors as a souvenir, after organising for them a horse show thst overwhelmed them with surprise Sis Yacht fiasco. Hs built ths yacht Independence at a coat of 1200, POO. and when It waa shut out from the America's cup race smil ingly threw It on the scrap heap. He established a great racing stable, ana when tired of playing with it. broke It up. Hs went to Kentucky, end the day before a great trotting race bought Baralmo for 117.000. His pride was aroused by the faot that the betting was against his trotter. He gave 1104,000 to a friend to sustain Baralmo's reputa tion in the betting and won. and yet he claims that he has never been seri ously interested In betting, and that his winnings on Baralmo wers simply an accident. That 930,000 Vlsk. But It waa the purchase of a pink carnation, wonderful In color and vigor, which had been named by a Boaton ex perimental florlat after Mrs. Lawson that made Mr. Lawson's name known all over the world. Thirty thousand dol lars for a pink! The news was spread broadcast snd printed in the newspapers of all countrlea aa an illustration of the vulgar extravagance and folly of an American millionaire. Mr., Lawson explained that Incident while I waa with him, and his explana tion threw a new light upon his char acter. He bought the flower originally as a matter of sentiment, but the sum he offered was comparatively small. Mr. Hlggtnbotham of Chicago bid $26,000 ror the Lawson pink. When he heard this news Mr. Lawson sat down with a florist friend and figured out the possibilities of the new flower aa a buslneaa invest ment. He closed the matter in a few minutes by paying $30,000. Some time later on the florist bought back the right to the Lawson pink for $$0,000. snd gave Mr. Lawson, In addition, 111,- 000 profit, sccordlng to agreement. A curious evidence or tins msn s as tonishing coolness is the fsct thst at the very time the market was closing on Friday, when it waa wniepered au ver the country that he was arranging terms of pesce for the Standard Oil with Mr Rogers. Mr. I.awson wss actually exnlalnlng the peculiar and beautiful qualities of his. favorite flower. A Bsaaoa for tost Attack. 'But If Amalgamstsd Copper shares were worth 1100 when you were market manager for Mr. Rogers and his friends how Is It that they are not worth that orlce now?" I aaked. Mr. I.awson leaned against me eage of an open door and thrust his hands deeply Into his pockets. I have tried to make tnat plain to the public," he said quietly. The other day Mr. ringers-s lawyer was trying to get me to stop. I told him that I Intended to fore the Stand srd OU crowd to put the price of Amal gamated Copper back to 1100, at which I advised my friends to buy It. Hs said that the stock was not worth $100 risked him how he knew. Hs answered that Mr. Rogers, Mr. BUllmaa. Mr. Rockefeller and the other fellows In control had discovered that thev had been deceived when the property was bought. They did not consider it worth more than $15 a share. Worth 945 or gioo. "That settled It In my mind. I ap pealed to the public to test the situa tion. I advised them to aeu Amniga mated at once and keep on selling. If It was worth $100, the men In the "ays tern,' hsvlng billions of dollars behind them would buy it. If It was worth only $4$ a share, then tho price must fall to that point In the end. It was stmply a question whether the public could un load on the Standard OU crowd before the "system- could unload on the pub lic." "Then you caught ths leaders ef Standard Oil at the psychological mo ment." Mr. Lawson's smile wss beyond words to describe. That partly explains ths crash." he said. "They were ready to unload on the public, but ths public moved too quickly. Publicity destroyed the one greet weapon of the Standard Oil men. which Is secrecy. I had been tricked and deceived and those who wers- re siM.nslhle had use.! my name to deceive and trick the public. I got out Into the open and laid the plot bare. I had been working up to that point for many years, always welting, waiting, walling for the day when I could begin a work of refor mation In behalf of $0,000,000 of people. "I know my game. I have stood hers In Boston for $1 years studying man and his ways. I have no false conceptions of my own strength. I know, and I have known all along, that to win against a system backed by billions of dollars working In the dsrk ind controll Ins largely the law-making power of the nation. T mast have the peoplo with me. M articles In Everybody's Maga zine were simply In preparation of the public mind for the practical demonstra tion which I have mads this wuek that I tbs whispering manipulators of Wall street will not buy st $68 a share stock which tbsy wars selling to the public st $100 a share 'It Is the aavlngs of the people which these men use. by means of banks, trust Institutions and insurance companies, that has enabled them up to this time to sell worthless stocks for good money. That is the secret of their power to maintain high prices for watered securi ties. But once the truth is made known their power la sure to crumble that is, when the people arouse themselves snd set. aa they have done this week. It Is only necessary to sell stock to find out that the 'system' which hss manufac tured the prices will not buy it. for the very good reason that they themaelves know the truth. Frenxled finance wants to dump Its Inflated securities' on tne public. The public has had a lesson this week of how quickly the crooked manip ulators will run when the stocks srs offered back to them. Standard OU Mth "Up to ths present time the Standard Oil -system' haa been methodically get ting control of ths people s savings. I hsva been at the very heart of Its opera tions and know how heartless Its pur poses and methods are. The men be hind It have had more power to bring the American people to the chopping block than Theodore Roosevelt with a proclamation of war and with congress and the army and the militia behind him. They think only of dollars. They stop st nothing. They have no con science. And the men who are sitting dp nights waiting for their wheat to grow so that they may hurry it into the Wall street hopper, the millions slaving In factories and saving money by self denlsl have been blind to the fact that the hoardings they gave so freely to the great and little financial Inatltu t ions of the country were the real sourcs of ths strength of the never-sleeping, cold-blooded Well street manipulators who are draining the country of Its wealth by a deliberate systsm of rob bery. Ten years ago I wanted to do the work I have begun to do now. But I would have made a mistake had I started In then. The situation has grown $00 per cent worse in these 10 years. Watered stock schsmes of $10, 000.000 have enlarged themaelves to $100,000,00$. Sogers "Offered to Take Ms Insids." "The Standard Oil Interests came Into my world simply because they entered Boston to control gas affairs They wsnted to run their automobile down a particular road, but they found a fel low standing In the middle of the road. They did not dare to run over that fel low, as little as he was, because he warned them that ha had In his pocket a- stick of dynamite that would blow the machine Up If It paaaed over him. Mr. Rogers is a really big and brainy man. He saw and understood the situa tion. He offered fo take me inside of his secret lines. - -iJjSS ' 'It Is said by my enemies, and they are many and some of them are crack ajacks, I admit that I am a squealer, that I have peached on my pals. That la absolutely untrue. From my boyhood up I have always Insisted on being free snd Independent. I have punched a head when I thought It needed punching with out aaking whose it was or What the consequence would be. But I have never consciously told a Us or violated a con fidence. The newspaper files will show that when I made my deal with the Standard Oil people I publicly announced that I had entered Into a secret agree ment with them. That brought a hurried call from Mr. Rogers, who wsnted to know what I meant I told him aa I had told him before that I had to work in my own way. that my methods were open and above board, and that I could not work successfully unless I waa free to do things ss I thought they should be done. That waa my arrangement with Standard Oil. They had a great chest, snd the whole method of the "system' was to prevent any one from getting a peep at that chest save aa one of them snd on their own terms. I refused to be bound by their code. I told Mr. Rogers again and again that everytning I learned as the market manager of the Standard Oil Interests I felt free to use publicly at any time. Mr. Rogers sgaln and again assured me that I waa the only man who had ever been admitted within the Standard OU "system on such terms. To secure my co-operation they violated their fundamental law of secre cy. But they wers fully warned of my attitude In advance. To Overthrow She "System." "All through that time I had. deep down In my heart the plan which 1 am carrying out now. Bach day brought me nearer to the day when I couldfex poae the whole system of fraud to the public Having that Idea always present with me I was careful to avoid deals or partnerships wbloh Involved any loas of independence to act when the Say for action came. I have been worth as much ss 12. ooo, ooo, and I have lost aa much as $14,000,000. But never have 1 altered my purpose to awaken the pub lic, to a realisation of the great crimes committed against them In the name of finance. I have Just begun. Before I get through the people themselves will un derstand how to overthrow the "System.' They have but to eell back to the manip ulators their watered securities and sell and sell and seU. and they will find that the 'systsm' will not buy until prices hsve reached a point at which they rep resent real values. When that time cornea, when the American people have compelled the 'system' to buy back the stocks which they have unloaded on the public, then we shall havs got back to first principles. "I know my own size. I know the slss of my enemies But I also know ths site and strength of 80.ooo.uoo peo pie. Publicity la the greatest agent of ieform that civilisation nes proaucea just ss secrecy Is ths greatest Instru mentsllty of fraud that ths world haa developed. Th "system' haa been trying to save th great reckoning with the DeoDle bv whispering for the Wall street manipulator always whispers thst the crash In Amalgamated stock was dus to ths sailing of large blocks bv myself and a group of plungers. That pretense wtU not save them. They are to be laid bare to the bona I have sold no stocks this week save In the ordinary email transactions of a broker's bust ness. Ths public hss offered the pool manipulators the atocka which they have been pralalng so highly, snd ths pools refused to buy them. The people and the press srs beginning to unaer stand the thing I havs been talking about. Let the people play the game of the 'system' agalnat the 'system' and they will soon find out how they have been cheated out of hundreus of millions of dollars by methods that cannot stand daylight. A Oreat "If the people will stand by me, and I have always been open snd honest with them. America wlU witness a great transformation. With sn honest snd courageous president in ths white house we shell see whether the 'system will be able to use the ftduclsrv Institutions of the country for piratical purposes The fsU In th price of Amalgamated THERE Is deep mystery' behind all the news developments mys tery thst Involves ths power of a woman to obtain vast sums of money upon security that la vague, questionable or even non-exlatent , .11 ii,.. there Is the mvsterl- oua dragging of ArVrew Carnegie's name Into the case, nis expucu mm nipw denials of any knowledge of the woman ft. nn,n.it insertion bv several lawyers snd bankers that his name la on at least ons or tne notes on wuicn Mrs. Chadwlck ralaed so much money, a , h.rre which had no small bearing upon subsequent devlpments. These srs tne anown i ui.iiua. facts: ii.rh.ri ty Newton of Brook- line, Mass , Mrs. Chadwlck obtalnad laat April imo.BUU wunoui mijr ,.n,.r v,u.. h.. nersnnal notes. To htm aha represented that ah had an Income or ijbo.uuo a year, ana suvwra tlficate that she naa on aepusu wiui k- W.rlr Vt.rtklnff ROHIHIIV Of ilia ,, au v . Cleveland, Ohio, securities worth more than $$,000,000. She also showed him a note for $$00,000. bearing the name of a man worth many mllllona. Andrew Carnegie, whose name haa been men tioned In thla connection, denies that he ever signed Such a note or anew Mrs. Chadwlck. From the Oltlsens' National nana oi rtl ( rikln h. ohtntiicd 1240.000 uwrnni, - - -. about four times its capital stock and from C. T. Beckwlth and A. B. Spear, president and cashier of this bank, per sonally. $102,000. As security she gave them notes for $760,000, signed, or pur porting to be Signed, by men worth many millions, convincing them that they were entering Into what would turn out to be a profitable speculation. From the American Exchange Na tional bank, Cleveland, Ohio, she ob tained $21,000. From the Euclid Avenue Saving A Trust company, Cleveland. $$1,000. From the Savings Deposit bank. Ely rta, Ohio, $10,000. From J. D. Chadwlck, Franklin. Pa. (hsr husband's brother), $$,00. The Oberlln bank has closed Its doors and the Wade Park waa saved only at great coat to Its directors. Mrs. Chadwlck obtained these loans on various pretexts. Here are a few of them: ... That a rich uncle In New Tork waa going to leave her several mllllona, an! that a certain auit in which ahe waa thvolved. muat be settled without pub licity or. her uncle would cut her out of his will. . . That her husband was ill at Carlsbad and had cabled to her for money, but that the unfortunate lndorssmant of a Clevelanders note had left hr tempo rarily without fund. ' That an uncle with aa imbecile sod had left a fortune In Andrew Carnegie's truat ths principal to be paid to hr on th son's death. ' That this rich uncle had left hsr $7,500,000, but thst ready money waa needed in order to gain posss1on of it That ths father of her child had set tled $100,000 on him. Mr. Chadwlck lived In Cleveland In a atyle that was compatible with any or all of these stories. There Is no mystery about what became of the money. She simply squandered It. Her house Is furnished In extravagant atyle; she tires of a. lace curtain or a Sevres vase and gives it to a servant, ordering some thing els In its place; ahe buys diamond rings by the trayful; pearls by the pound; she took a party of 11 young Cleveland girls to Europe, where they traveled In the finest atyle. She ha their portraits painted upon Ivory and framed In 18 -carat gold; sealskin eoata nr. r.r..l for her servants, grand pianos for friendS. It is related of her. I that she had her house reaecoraiea ana refurnished a a Christmas present for her husband, all th work being done during their absence at ths theatre one evening. She engages a suits of rooms at a Nsw York hotel for a week, stays at another hotel and paya for the apart ments she does not occupy aa well as for thoss she does. She travel In a private car and by special train: she keeps a staff of trained nurses In at tendance upon her. It is eald that sh has $600,000 worth of Jwl la her Cleveland home. She Is reckless In spending money, reckless almost to the extent of mania. The money went to Cleveland. Nsw Tork and Parts trades - - - whom she slwava nsid cash. ci,. ' .- r-Kills with shopkeepers and her reputation among them I that of their best customers. Mrs. Chadwlck's position in Cleveland h..r, i, v. flhe hu never been In the beat society of the older set but the younger men and women have as sociated with her gladly, attracted no .1....1.1 k., h . ml.nn, of her lavish en tertainments She flashed across the sky of cieveiana rour or nve yewrs mw wuh rir i-h.virir nrmirni ner name ills I.-I.4. u. halt a s-nod practice, was a widower with a grown-up daughter and the owner or a nanosome nouse at xwurua avenue and Oenesee street, where she Immediately began a social campaign that dazzled all but tne staid ana con ...vallii. iM nennl. Where she came from, who ahe was, -f, .it n.v.l.nit nijatatnav and ths truth la ..111 ,hmi,H III mvsterv When Her bert O Newton suea ner tor tne iw,vw he had lent ner it was rouno mat sne waa no other tnan i.yma us v ere, con -I.I fnMM. anil e-eiierel swindler. Both the marriage records show that rw i -h-ilali-lc married Mrs C I. Hiwiv.r In 1897. The Identity of Lydla D Vers and Lylle Btgley Is established beyond a doubt. Lydla, or Lylte, was the daughter of a farmer named Blgtey, who lived near Woodstock, Ont. and there ahe lived with ner wiaowea mo i ner until sne was ma r-l.a in an elder I v Cleveland man named C. L. Hoover. That waa about IMS. Twelve years later her relatives heard that ahe had become a widow and married a rich Cleveland doctor. In the mean time Lydla De Vere had served a term In the Ohio penitentiary for forg ery. A sister of hers is Mrs. Campbell of Woodstock, Ont. and ahs says aha la Mrs. Chadwlck's sister, but professes not to know of Lylls's career as Lydla De Vere. Lydla De Vere s specialty was winning the confidence of wealthy men. It waa said that she had hypnoUo powers. Whether this be true or not, he cer tainly had wonderful ability as a swind ler. The first of her victims who be came known waa Joseph Lamb, a clerk and other pool stocks la only a bubble on the surface. The final revelation and ths final solution srs yet to come Into sight." Just aa ths close of the stock market was Imminent I heard a tiny tinkling. Mr Lawson pulled his gold wstch from his pocket It was ringing. "It is S o'clock." hs said with a smile, "the stock market Is Just closing." Just then ths telephone bell rang and Mr. Lawson put ths receiver to his ser and laughed as hs listened. "No," he an swsred softly, through th Instrument, "I am not locked up with Mr. Rogers, but with a man who has more power." Then hs turned to me. rocking back strongly on hla heels and clasping his hands behind his squsre hesd. "I mean that." he said. 'There Is more power In the pen of one honest writer in ths service of an honest, fear less newspaper than In all the wealth and cunning of the system.' ' Mal H I J VHBBSBflHH gSihSj-Wa i aJ HjjSa.1 MaaafflkJaH aBaaaX Mn. Caasle L. Cbadwicit in a Toledo express oompany office. With a salary of 11.000 a year, a wife and some children. Through him she obtained $20,000. She waa then in business In To ledo as a clairvoyant The number of rich men who were her dupe waa re markable. She waa than In 1890 an at tractive woman, who, when arrested, con fessed to being 40 yeara old. She and Lamb were arrested for forging a note for $6,000. The man was acquitted. It be ing shown that he was her dups and victim, but she waa convicted and sentenced to prison for $H years. Good conduct reduced this to about three years. After ahe was released on parole she was obliged to report herself to the prison officials at regular Intervals. Onoe. In 1904. ahe sent word that she wss visiting her mother, Mrs. Btgley, at Woodstock. Thla led to an Investigation, which proved that Lylle Btgley had been arrested for forgery In 1879. but acquitted on the ground that she "was Insane at the time of trie commission of ths of fense." Th mystery of hsr marriage Is not the least strange circumstance of thla extraordinary case. The records of Al legheny county, Ohio, show that on Feb ruary 6, 1897. Lsroy I. Schadwtck and Mrs. Caasle L. Hoover took out a mar riage license, and that the Rev. Dr. Jolly married them the same day, returning the certificate with the bridegroom's name spelled "Chadwlck." Dr. Jolly says he knows "Chadwlck" s the correct spelling, because Chadwlck la his cousin. The license sets forth that Mrs. Hoover was born In New York state, March M, 1888, and was at ths time the license was asked for $$ year of age. Her resi dence was given as No. IM Franklin street Cleveland. In the space set aslds for remarks op posite ths question aa to whether the applicant had ever been married previ ously, there is simply a "yes," and further along, in another blank oppoaite the question aa to how such marriage ties were dissolved, the words "by death" appear. There la no clue to hsr maiden name. The records of the Windsor Methodist church at Windsor, Ont. contain the following: "Leroy s Chadwlck. physi cian, widower, residence Cleveland, . aged 44. Methodist; father' name, Ellhu Chadwlck; mother's nam, Isabel Jolly. Elisabeth Hoover, aged $1, widow, resi dence Cleveland, born New York, Metho dist; Oe borne Rlddleman. father; Kath arine E. Turner, mother. Witness ss, George W. Henderson. J. E. Gundy." The ceremony wss performed by the Rev. J. R. Gundy. Elisabeth was the baptismal name of "Lylle" Blgley who was subsequently married to C. I. Hoover. John A. Smith, a phomlnent Cleveland lawyer, said: "I frightened that woman Into paying a loan made to her by a bank for Which I was counsel simply by confronting her with a photograph of Mme. Oe Vere taken In th Ohio peni tentiary and showing her a complet- criminal record of the trial and con viction of this sams Mm. De vers.'' This ability to raise enormous gums of monsy wherewith to pay oft loans when closely pressed is on of th amazing circumstances about Mrs. Chad wlck that seems to Indicate resource upon which sh can draw at will. What these resources were long remained a deep mystery. Shs certainly possesses some remark able power, for her ability to extract from banks and shrewd financiers their own money snd th funds Intrusted to them hss been so wall proven In so many cases that tt I ths talk of th financial world. Banker and capitalists are not easy prey They, do not lend money except, on the best security it Is only by the exercise of exceptional ability and acumen, not only In th Juggling of money, but In th fudging of human nature that a man reaches the position of cashier or president of a bank or amssses mllllona for himself. H I ever On the guard against ths hard of clever acheraers who are lying In wait for him at all hour. And yet It waa from men uch as these that Mrs. Chad wlck borrowed sums aggregating about $1,000,000 on security thst was at bast vague. Now, what was tits power that en abled her to put to sleep their sus picions, to open ths locks of thslr safes and to Indue them to supply her. gladly, repeatedly, with anormoua sums of money with which to gratify her ex travagant tastes? It muat be said that they, at leaat In several Instances, sxacted an Inter est that bordered on usury. Perhaps this .explain the mystery. For cupidity Is as potent a fact in the rich banker aa It Is In the poor achemer. And Mr. Newton expected to be enriched by his loans to her. while poor old Mr. Beck wlth tearfully confesses that hs en tered Into the toila with an eye to speculative venture which he expected to turn out very profitably. Slrena almoat always entangle their victims by means of the heart, but there haa been no suggestion thst Mrs. Chad wlck, an elderly, unattractive woman with poor conversational powers, made use of the tender passion In any of her schemes. De Laneey Ntcholl expressed ths opinion of on expert when he said a woman always appealed to a man's sentiment snd did not arouse ths sus picions thst s msn making a similar ple.-i would arouse and that wheu a woman proposed magnificent plans 1 great financiers she won their admira tion and disarmed them at once. Per haps In this, combined with their nat ural cupidity and eagerness to make money,-' lies the secret of Mrs. Chad wlck's power to Induce such heavy loan from such experienced men. Another Long Ptt . From the Chicago Tribune , Will the genius thst produced th cor less apple please sea If hs cannot evolv a seedless blackberry? v