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Show FIELD ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. Ilis Father and Sister are Dying ami lie is in an Insane Asylum. New York, Dee. 2. Edward M. Field, who has stripped his father ot all his possessions, aud upon whose life tTiere is $t0o,(oo insur-anee, insur-anee, attempted suicide last evening. He has been committed to an insane asylum as a dangerous lunatic. Assignee Gould said: "I believe that the only great sufferers arc the members of the firm, who have been victimized by Mr. Field. 1 am particularly sorry for Wiechers, whom I consider as honest a young: man as I ever met. The fact is, lie has been robbed. Edward M. Field is the most plausible person per-son I ever met. Only two days before the assiirnmelit was made I talked with Field, and he rattled off a list of assets of the tirm, showing that they were worth over $000,000. lie is undoubtedly crazy." |