Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1902 — MORE ABOUT MILDRED. [ARTICLE]

MORE ABOUT MILDRED.

Her Record ■ Most Unsavory One, Says a Gentleman Who Has Known Her for Years. A prominent Jasper county gentleman, well acquainted with the father and other relativse of the Mildred Fields arrested at Indianapolis last week for forgery and subquently released on payment of the amount of the forged check, informed The Democrat that Mildred has a record from away back. He says the Colorado sister, to whom it was alleged she would be sent, would have nothing to do with her. Mildred was out there a few years ago, he says, and is alleged to have forged a note for S6OO on her brother-in-law, got the money and returned to Peoria, 111. Then, when the Colorado officers got after her, she is alleged to have forged her father’s name to a note for SI,OOO at a Peoria bank, paid up the Colorado note and proceeded to “blow herself” with the extra S4OO. Later she got up a $2,000 note and signed her father’s name to that, intending, it was supposed to pay off the previously forged SI,OOO note. The bankers became suspicious and went and saw her father, who was dumfounded and pronounced the signature a forgery. Then the matter was fixed up by Mildred signing over to the bank her interest in her dead mother’s estate, and she has no inheritance in prospect at all at this time. He says the girl has always been a terror, and that her father is one of the best men in Deer Creek township, and is quite wealthy. It is not surprising that he will hav enothing further to do with her nor settle any more of her scrapes. Regarding the fair Mildred’s financial escapades here last winter, we are informed that one of her victims here was a banker, whom she caught for sls. It seems that she went to McCoy’s bank and told Tom McCoy that she wanted to borrow $l5O, saying she would give Mr. P— a prominent ex-farmer of Rensselaer, as surety. She was informed that Mr. P— would be all O. K., and she could have the money. Jest at the noon closing hour Mildred dropped in again and said that she was in urgent need of sls. and asked Tom to let her have that much money and immediately after dinner she would get Mr. P —to sign the note and would bring it in and get the other $135. The sls was given her and Tom is still looking for Mildred’s and Mr. P’s autographs.