The evening world., 1891-12-03

Fields financial transact ions say that not q
single trace has been discovered OF any OF the
channels by which the rrm's funds d!sap-
pearcd except the cuban sugar plantation
deal. Assignee Gould, who claims that
Fields Investments In that direction are
safe and that the money advanced may be
recovered, will not 90 into details.
He says Field had put money into other
"busincss enterprises" but what they were
and how much money was thus invested he
does not tell.
1t Is believed that Field began lose money
IA speculation a year or more ago. lie lost in
both the stock and grain markets, where AT
times he was plunger. 1t is suspected that
he was badly caught In the November panic
In 1890, and that he never got over that
blow.
Since then he has gotten deeper and deeper
into the mire, through losing specuiatons in
wall street and in Wild and reckless schemes
outside.
He Is believed to have lost heavily ia the
corner In September corn. IL which, as "A lead
ing broker FOR S. V. White & CO.. he WAS more
deeply interested than his partners imag-
ined.
wIECHERs's sTARTLISG TALE.
James +. Wicchers, one OF Fields partners,
says he has lost everything he possessed, and
that his wiie's money has been sacrificed as
well.
wiechers originally claimed that he had Put
$500, 900 capital into the firm, and that his
relatives IN Germany had contributed about
$500, 900 more, all OF which had disappeared.
He now says that when he went to cuba a
h. ,nfa 90
sugar plantations he left in the FIRMS safe
$40. 900 In Government bonds and $4,000 IL.
notes for personal loans, all indorscd over TO
his wife.
lie says he told Field that the bonds and
notes were in the safe, and that they belongcd
to Mrs. Wiechcrs.
When he returned he found that Field had
tnkcn al! the securities AMI notes and dis
posed OF them. How long after his return
MIR. Wechers discovered that his partner had
robbed him, as he claims. he does not state.
on the day OF the failure Mr. Miechers said
he had no ground to suppose that Field had
been doing anything wrong.
1t also appears that, II Mr. Wicchers went
to Cuba to negotiate the purchase OF sugar
plantations from seEGr de- Micrs he must
know good deal about that schelnc
STORY or FORGERY.
Another story is TO the effect that Field
forged the name OF a ship and n captain In a
grain Inspection certificate and raised money
on II ron German banking-hou
How much OF the money squandcred by
other partners, has not been made public
/ En nns do pnl In al ~ or
MR.. FIELDs INSANITY.
| The statements by Drs. Fitch and Ingram
upon which Judge McAdam committed Ed
ward NJ. Field to the private insane asylum nj
MI. vernon, is very positive In It's assertion
OF the patients insanity.
| The present attack, they say, came on
gradually. In his actions he Is declared to bc
"dcprcsScd and very cXcltablc," and II Is spcC.-
He'd that :" he has threatened suicide" The
supposed cause Is stated as Ovcrwork and
business very" Fields habits as to the lisl
OF stimulants aud Intoxicating liquors are de-
cared to be temperate" but It Is added that
:" h" mas beca inclined u intcmpcranCC Ui
late"
THAT ATTESPT At SUICIDE.
/ Dr. Ingram says: Fields mania Is not Of
: lnt Nloleht SuTl, nor upeS IL lcah IN tnc SUI
! cidal direction. lie seems 10 realize his condi.
/ tiOn and his troubles at times, though, and II
was during one OF these spells that he delib-
eratoly attempted TO take his own life.
/ "On one occasion he attempted 10 jump
| from a third-sUory window, and on anot her
made an erort to purchase enough morphine
10 cause a mans death. Had It not been fcI
the watchiul care of the trained nurse, who
Nas powerful man, hr certainly would have
thrown himself out OF the w!n:ow,"
/ JUDICIAL INQUIRY COMING.
4 judicial inquiry into Mr., Fields sanity
VIII be begun soon. II Is sid that DR.. Lind
ley, Fields brother-in-law, warned the family
Of the latters falling mental powers ten
months ago. They did not believe II, al.
though they knew there was insanity In The
family.
CrRus FIELD not MINED.
! pr. lind'ey denies the statement that Cy.
rLs ". Ficld il ruined aud peun!less lie