The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-06
FIELDS OF THE MUTUAL HOME
LEGISLATIVE AGENT BACK AND
READY TO FACE CHARGES.
Returned TO DObbs Ferry From California
or Tuesday-Hls Doctor Says He's
Been a Very Sick Mai and hat He Adj.
yised Him TO GOWN stay Here Now.

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Sised Him TO Gown Stay Here Now.
Andrew C. Fields, mana ger of the supply
department and legislative agent for the
Mutual Life Insurance Company, who went
to California just before the Armstrong
committee began its n vestigation, has
returned to the East and he is now at his
handsome home, Genehurst. in Dobbs
Ferry. Mr.. Fields and his family got back
on Tuesday. Just how they reached Dobbs
Ferry from New York is not known.
so quiet was the return that few of the
villagers even knew yesterday that the
family was back in Dobbs Ferry. No one
apparently saw them get of a railroad train,
and for this reason it is believed that they
drove up from New York.
When a crowd of reporters rang the
bell of Genehurst yesterday afternoon
Clarence Fields, a son Of the owner, came
around the veranda from the front Of the
house. He was evidently expecting visitors.
He admitted that his father was home,
but h, Is sick in bed and can see no ONE
he san. 4
"How long has he been home?" one of the
reporters asked.
Really, I can't say the young man
replied. All efforts to get any information
out of him about his fathers condition or
where he had been or what his plans were
concerning his future course in reference
to insurance affairs ended in failure. Finally
one of the inquisitors said:
Are you aware that District Attorney
Jerome asked YOU father to appear before
the Grand Jury and tell what he knows
about the disbursement of the company's
funds for legislative purposes and that upon
the refusal of Mr.. Fields to appear Mr..
jerome said he was going to apply for a
warrant for his a~rrest?"
This question seemed to jar the young
man a bit, and he finally consented to ask
his father about the matter. When he re-
turned he said that his father would SUBJ
init to an interview provided his physician,
DR.. c. II. Judson, would allow him to talk.
The reporters flocked to DR.. Judson's house,
but the physician refused positively to per-
NIT the patient to talk. The doctor him
self, however, consented to tell about where
Mr. Fields and his family had been and just
why Mr.. Fields went away.
AS long as four years ago." said the
physician, Il advised Mr.. Fields to drop
business and take a rest. l wanted him to
go to the south of France, but Mrs. Fields
was averse to taking an ocean voyage, and
the plan fell through. He is suffering from
a chronic complaint, which has been made
much worse by overwork."
is he suffering from a nervous break
DOWN." DR.. Judson was asked.
Il decline to answer" he said.
last spring" he continued, Il again
advised Mr.. Fields to discontinue work,
but there was a longer session Of the Legis-
lature than usual and he would not leave
Albany. He seemed to enjoy his work,
and then again it might have been a ques-
ton of salary with him. l take the respon-
as far as the advice of a physician
goes-and not in the insurance matter
for his leaving. / wanted him to 60 where
he would not be in touch with business"
When did you last see him prior to his
departure?" was the next question put to
the doctor.
"In the spring of last year was the reply.
Then you did not advise him just before
he left in September"
Il did not"
DR.. Judson then took up his story again.
said that he ave Mr.. Fields the certif-
cate of i'll health which was presented to
the Armstrong committee.
Mr. Fields and his family, " said he, went
from here to Los Angeles, Cal, and re-
manned there until their return on Tuesday.
While there Mr.. Fields was constantly
the care of a physician
as he still in bed?"
He was in bed yesterday, but he was UP
1t will take him about three weeks
TO get around"
will he be able then to face civil pro-
cedure or criminal prosecution?"
He will" said the physician quickly.
is not afraid to face anything, He will
not cav this section of the country again
any charges are pending, After he
mas sufficiently recovered he will go to his
home in New Jersey and then
he may"
1t was regarded as rather strange that the
Fields family could have lived in Los Ange-
es for about seven months without their
being discovered. Those in the
party were Mr.. and Mrs. Fields, their two
children, P. F. butcher, Mrs. Fields's
and Miss Addie butcher. Testi-
nony was given before the Armstrong
committee to the effect that Mr.. Fields
on the island of Santa Catalina, of the
coast Of California, and the Mutual COM
announced that 1t had sent agents
here to try to induce him to come back.
1t was said yesterday that the Mutual
would soon begin a suit for an accounting
against Fields of the money paid out by
for supplies" for the company. 1t
through these accounts that much of
he money that was spent in Albany is
imposed to have been paid.
IL was said at Thomas ID. Jordan's home.
IS West Eighty-eighth street, last night,
he would return to this city in a day
n two. Jordan was one of the guardians
If the Equitable's yellow dog fund who
lave been missing ever since the Armstrong
committee began to subpoena witnesses.