Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-12-17
CYRUS FIELD DYING
The Old Financier's End Near
 At Hand.
HIS WEIGHT OF WOE TOO HEAVY
Edward M. Field to Be Examined As to
 His Sanity Saturday.

The Warden of Ludlow Street Jau In
 Quandry District Attorney NIcolI
 Blamed in Many Quartsrs-Ths Latest
 Napoleon of Finance Refuses Food, and
 Cares oDly to Read the Newspapers.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 17-Cyrus W. Field ia rapidly passing away. The shock resultant from tho degradation of his son, E. M Field, was too severe for the aged anancier in his weakened condition to withstand. His physician, Dr. Fuller, says he has now lost all hope of his patients ultimate recovery. Mr. Field will, however, in ths physi- cian's opinion, finger several days No callers are admitted to see Mir. Field, even his brother being turned away.
 With Edward M Field in Ludlow Street Jail, Cyrus W. Field at the point of death. his daughter, Mira Lindley very i'll, and new and startling develop ments in the condition of the collapsed firm of Field, Lindley, Wiechers & Co, day by day, the case is a most remark able one. Nor is the burden of sorrow and humiliation yet complete. The greatest sensation Is promised on Sat UT. day, when the family skeleton will be revealed before Judge Dykeman at White Plains At 10 o'clock on that day the proceedings will be begun by the Commission in Lunaoy, Lawyer Odie Close, to determine the mental condition of Edward M Field.
 Not less than 20 witnesses, including several members of the FielI family, will be called on to testify to facts which, 1t Is said, will go far to show ho had Of ha al ap fa crazy enough to be confined in 8 mad house. Hundreds of incidents and acts will be cited to prove that he has not been of sound mind for a year
 Among the witnesses will be Thomas Stokes, brother of Anson Phelps Stokes, who says that two months ago, while going to Tarrytown on the train with Field, the latter suddenly jumped from his seat and left the train at Hastings, six miles short of his destination, say ing he had Important orders to give the engineer" MT. Stokes was startled by the evident dementia of his friend. Other incidents will bs brought in. It will be shown that Fields habits have undergone remarkable change within year.
 Field was formerly very devout and strict in religious matters, but for many months past has kept away from church and withdrawn entirely from society.
 Judge Dykeman of Westchester County has issued an order directed to Thomas Dunlap warden of the New York County Jail, directing the latter to produce his prisoner, Edward M. Field in the court at White Plains at 10 o'clock Saturday. A subpoena will be served at the same time Warden Dun lap is in a quandary as to his course of action. If he disobeys Judge Dykeman,s oruer he may be com mmitted for con- tempt of court, and if he surrsnders his prisoner, he and his bondsman are like . ly to be sued by Robert E. Dietz, the Brooklyn agent, who has caused MT. Field to be locked up on a charge of stealing $50, 000. If the warden at tempts to defeat the process of the Westchester County Court, the legal puzzle will become still more compu . cated. Altogether, 1t Is an interesting case.
 District Attorney Nicoll sent for the bank check books of the suspended firm yesterday, and Assignee Gould loaned them for day or two. Experts exam in d the stubs, and the result of their figuring will be laid before the grand jury to-day, possibly with the purpose of securing an indictment az ainst young Field for the conversion of nearly @, 00U, 900 to his own use. Partner Wiechers said yesterday that about $1, = 287, 900 of this sum belonged to his rel a. tives, or represented the cash he had put into the concern.
 ''No effort will be made to procure bail for Field in the Dietz case, said Counsellor Wilkie, yesterday. We are con teut to let him remain where he Is until the Commission in Lunacy passes upon his mental condition. There iS no doubt that he is Insane. He has been . resident and voter of Tarrytown for the past eleven years, and that is why we were compelled by law to have him committed to an asylum in Westchester | County. There was no attempt at secrecy in the matter, at all"
 Ore of Fields counsel also said yes | terdHy: 1.-The action of District-Attor ney Nicoll in sending detectives to Dr.. Granger's private asylum at Mount l Vernon to arrest MT. Field and to cause him great anguish and shame, and subject him to unnecessary annoy ance at night was cruel and inhuman, l as we'll as almost unprecedented. Mr. Nicoll acknowledged that no one had made any complaint against Field.'' Field absolutely refused to partake oi any food during yesterday. He said that he was not hungry, and drank only a small wineglassful of milk. He was furnished with newspapers and spent the day in reading and dozing.