The evening world., 1891-11-30
Claims Amounting to Millions
Against the Broken Firm.
E. NJ. Field Has Been Taken to a
Private Insane Asylum.
His Father, Cyrus W. Field, May
Die from Grief and Shock.

Nult hut hio tVhuit'oh 10
probably hopeless is no longer concealed by
members OF his family.
II was reported nj first that he had been
confined in Bloomingdaie Asylum, but this is
denied by DR.. Samuel b. Lyon, the medical
superintendent OF that institution.
DIR. Lyon said this morning that no male
patient had been admitted to the asylum
since last Thursday, and Mr.. Field was known
to be at his house last Saturday morning.
DR.. Ly on did not know what had become Of
MIR. Field.
At the latters residence, l25 East Twenty.
first street, the housekceper In charge said
this morning that Mr.. Field had been taken
away from the house saturday by his wife,
and that neither OF them had returned
She understood that MIR. Field had gone to
the house OF one OF his relatives, who lived
out OF town.
DR.. c. l.. Lindley, who has attended MIR.
Field and has been his family physician, was
found this morning at his house, 30 Madison
avenue.
"All l can say regarding the unfortunate
man is that he has been taken TO private
Institution and has been placed under the
care OF experts
Every effort will be made to restore his
reason, but at present his condition does not
give ground FOR much hope He is not at
Bloomingdale, but am not at liberty to state
where he Is"
cyrus W. Field is still very seriously Ill at
his home, 1913 East Twenty-irst street. He
is attended by Drs Eugene Fuller, Keyes and
Lindley. They all regard his condition as
critical In the extreme.
4nt-
morning, and al 8 o'clock issued the following
bulletin:
"Mr. Field rested rather better last night.
He is still very much prostrated and shows
greater bodily weakness. strict quiet Is most
necessary"
This is taken as giving very little encour-
agement, and II is generally believed that the
patients condition Is more serious than It
was yesterday.
He has not been able to leave his bed to-
day. The only members OF his family who
are now with him are bis daughter, Mrs
Judson, and her two SONS. Another daugh-
ter, the wife Of Daniel A. Lindley, is also in
the house, but she Is very low and said to be
dying OF an incurable malady. Her husband
Is watching at her bedside.
David Dudley Field, brother OF the sick
supreme Court Justice stephen J. Field,
another brother, Is expected to come on from
Washington to-day.
"If Edward NJ. Field is guilty OF one-half
the frauds ana dishonesty with which he 10
charged said Assignee Gould to-day, e. do
| not wonder that he has lost his mind.
"Thus far have been able to get very little
new light upon the situation.
" The only claim or any kind that has yet
been presented to me came from the Union
Pacific people. That amounts, believe. to
something like million and q half In rehy.
pothecnted securities.
~ cannot imagine where all this money
went to. and cannot IND anything In the
books have thus far examined to account
! for Its disappearance.
"There Ii very little prospect OF being able
10 get anything out OF Field himself, for !
have tried and am completely discouraged
He Is utterly unreliable In his statements
even when you can get him to say anything
ut all.
"What he has told Inc already have found
| to be entirely false and misleading, and most
or his statements he contradicts himself.
! shall not try to obtain any Information rom
him ut present,
1.-THE other members OF the firm. Mr.. Lind.
believe, been kept In complete ignorance OF
the private dealings OF K. N. Field. can say
without hesitation that believe them all 70
have been perfectly straight In the matter.
| several new stories regarding acts OF dis
honesty on the part OF Field have come out
| since Saturday. IL is said that he collected
| S35.Oo0 In rents from the tenants OF the
! " ashington building, which has not been
accounted for Two thousand dollars 10 pew
rents OF the Tarrytown Presbyterian Church,
OF which Mr. Field was treasurer, is said TO be
missing also.
Another queer transaction related TO de.
! posit OF SllS,00O, made with the nrm BY u
| friend OF Mr.. WiecheIS, who went travelling
abroad. When he cabled to Mr.. Wiechers
| for the money the despatch was intercepted,
and matters dragged along until q few days
| before the failure, when Mr.. Wiechers by
accident got hold OF cable from his friend
| complaining that he had not received the
draft he expected.
Wiechers, It is said, at once sat down and
made out the draft on German banking
| house, which he sent by mail.
When Field learned what he had done there
was a scene, and the result is that, although
The dcpositor got his draft cashed on the
! other side, the banker who gave him the
money Will have 10 stand the loss
1t Is also said that the irm did very queer
business In borrowing and carrying stocks In
their daily transactions on change.
| IL has gone on day after day for months,
selling out stocks at night ut a loss 10 some
nrm and buying II back again In the morning
al another loss. The business has averaged
$4,000 shares "A day for the last six months.
Mr.. Gould, the assignee declared this MORN
Ing that he knew nothing or other alleged de-
iaIcaiions and mlsapproprlationS or fnndS by
Field, and had not even heard that he was
charged with stealing church money ana
rents collected from the Washington Build
ing tenants.
iie admitted, though, that one OF the en-
tcrprises In which +. NJ. Held was said 10 be
largely Interested, had something TO do with
the sugar business oI Havana. IL Is said that
he scheme contemplated the consolidation
OF the entire sugar producing interests N
cuba. In other words, lie was trying 10 form
Trust OF the planters.
1t Is said that the plans were all matured.
and the TrustlreNdy 10 go into operation when
the crash came, which Involved Field anu his
firm In ruin.
In this connection II II said that Field In
terested John u. ,llnin In the Trust, and Sc
cured from him subscription To sjoO,Oo ol
the bonds Oi the Company. Assignee Gould
denies this part OF the story, but admits that
Field was largely involved IN cuban specuia-
tiOns ,
/ "That was only one OF several large enter
prises IN which Field was.cngaged,' said MI.
Gould.
The general opinion In Wall street Is that
the present situation OF afalrs presents one
of the most hopeless financial tangeS on
record. In addition TO misappropriatlng funds
and hypotheCating collateral securities, the
charge OF forgery Is also made against Field.
IL Is said that the Field family held con-
sultation yesterday 10 see II means could be
devised 10 help the arm out OF It's diniculties
and hush up the scandal which has arisen.
II was found, however, that not even the
kentire residue oI cyrus W. Fields once hand