Cassie Chadwick - First U.S. Fraud Trial

First U.S. Fraud Trial

In 1889 she again resorted to forgery. Chadwick was convicted and sentenced to 9½ years in a penitentiary in Toledo, Ohio. She was paroled four years later in 1891 and returned to Cleveland, Ohio.

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