Queen of the Con: From a Spiritualist to the Carnegie Imposter Crowl Thomas
The definitive account of audacious con woman Cassie Chadwick, the Carnegie ImposterQueen of the Con tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and "one of the top 10 imposters of…
Specifikacia Queen of the Con: From a Spiritualist to the Carnegie Imposter Crowl Thomas
The definitive account of audacious con woman Cassie Chadwick, the Carnegie ImposterQueen of the Con tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and "one of the top 10 imposters of all time," according to Timemagazine. Born Betsy Bigley in 1857 in Canada, she first operated as Madame Devere, a European clairvoyant, and in 1890 was arrested for defrauding a Toledo bank of $20,000. In the mid-1890s, while working as a madam in Cleveland, Cassie met and married a widowed physician with a coveted Euclid Avenue address.At the dawn of the 20th century, Cassie borrowed $2 million (worth roughly $50 million today) throughout northern Ohio, Pittsburgh, New York, and Boston by convincingly posing as the illegitimate daughter of wealthy industrialist-turned-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.When the fraud collapsed in