Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1902 — MILDRED IN LIMBO. [ARTICLE]

MILDRED IN LIMBO.

Miss Mildred Fields, who claims to be the daughter of Frank Fields, a wealthy land owner of Deer Creek, 111,, was arrested at Frankfort, Tuesday for forging a check of $25 on J. J. M. Lafollette, of Indianapolis. She is also charged with forging her father’s name to a note of SIOO, and passing it on a Portland, Ind., real estate man, at which town she has been for some time. Miss Fields is said to be a teacher of stenography, and was attempting to organize a class at Frankfort when arrested. She is supposed to be the same Mildred Fields that organized a class in short-hand here last winter and is alleged to have collected pay for the lessons in advance and then left town suddenly before completing the course. She came here from Remington, we understand—, near which she has a sister living, She is saidto.be quite prepossessing, and while here is alleged to have inveigled a couple of our handsome but confirmed old bachelors in assisting her financially by placing their names on a note at one of the local banks, where she was securing a temporary loan. It is alleged also, on the q. t., that the confirmed old bachelor's faith in pretty women in distress is not so great as it was previous to the placing of their autographs under Miss Fields’ on this note. She also, it is alleged, attempted to borrow money (and probably did) from several different business men here and left two unpaid board bills when she shook the dust of Rensselaer (v from her feet. Later: The Rev. Harry Stark, pastor of the Presbyterian church at Frankfort, claims to have recognized in Miss Fields a former prominent member of his flock at Washington, lowa, and interrested himself in the girl’s behalf and raised the money to pay the amount of the forged check. The money was taken to Indianapolis and turned over and the girl was discharged. The Portlnnd case will not be pushed, it is stated, and her new found friends will contribute money to send her to a sister whom she claims resides in Colorado.