Con artist who claimed to be the illegitimate daughter and heiress of Andrew Carnegie
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Cassie L. Chadwick
1904 cabinet card image of Chadwick[2]
Born
Elizabeth Bigley
(1857-10-10)10 October 1857
Eastwood, United Province of Canada
Died
10 October 1907(1907-10-10) (aged 50)[3]
Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Other names
Elizabeth Cunard Emily Heathcliff Lydia DeVere Lydia Springsteen Marie LaRose Cassie Hoover Cassie Chadwick Cassie L. Chadwick
Occupation(s)
Clairvoyant, fortune teller, pimp
Criminal status
Dead[4]
Spouses
Dr. Wallace S. Springsteen
John R. Scott
Dr. Leroy S. Chadwick
Children
1
Motive
Money
Conviction(s)
9 ½ years
Criminal charge
forgery seven counts forgery and seven counts conspiracy
Penalty
14 years prison and $70,000 fine[1]
Cassie L. Chadwick (10 October 1857 – 10 October 1907) was the most well-known pseudonym used by Canadian con artist Elizabeth Bigley, who defrauded several American banks out of millions of dollars during the late 1800s and early 1900s[5] by claiming to be an illegitimate daughter and heiress of the Scottish-American industrialist Andrew Carnegie.[6][7] Newspaper accounts of the time described her as one of the greatest con artists in American history.[8] She pulled off the scam in the Gilded Age of American history, during which time women were not allowed to vote or get loans from the banks, leading some historians to refer to her bank heist as one of the greatest in American history.[8]
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^Crosbie, John S. (1975). The Incredible Mrs. Chadwick: The Most Notorious Woman of Her Age. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson. ISBN 0-07-082194-1.
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^Medium. "Cassie Chadwick's Brilliant Crime", Medium Corporation, London, 3 August 2019
^ ab"Hoax of Heiress Ruined Bankers". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. 30 January 1955. p. 27.
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