Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1920 — RUED $200 FOR POEM [ARTICLE]

RUED $200 FOR POEM

Woman Declared Lyric Composer Annoyed Her. Ben Fields, secondhand typewriter salesman and alleged composer of “sob lyrics,” was assessed a fine of >2OO te Kansas City on complaint of pretty Miss Madeline McKinn, instructor for a telephone company. For the last five months, according to Miss McKinn, Fields had annoyed her with his attentions and poems. She had him arrested on a former occasion, she said, but he forfeited hie bond and continued his protestations of love. Finally, Miss McKinn told the court, she received a poem entitled “I Never Knew My Love for You TIB You Were Gone.” This was too much. She again sought a policeman.