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His Wife Complained. Why a Deputy Sheriff Sought Fields at Farmingdale. Special to the Brooklyn Times. Farmingdale, New York. March 11, 1897. E. B. Winters, Deputy Sheriff of Westhampton, arrived in Farmingdale on the 9:27 A.M. tram yesterday with a warrant for Orrin T. Fields, a former resident of Canoe Place. Mrs. Orrin T. Fields applied to Overseer of the Poor, Louis Tuttle for assistance for herself and children, and informed the official that her husband had deserted her and was living at Farmingdale. Mr. Tuttle then secured a warrant for the husband. After securing authority from Justice P. V. Ketcham to serve the warrant in Queens County, and the assistance of Constable J. A. Lattin, Deputy Sheriff Winters started up Main street and drew from his overcoat pocket a parcel wrapped in several newspapers, from which he unfolded and exposed to the view of the public a pair of steel bracelets, and at the same instant drew from another pocket a club. His actions struck terror to the heart of one of Farmingdale's peculiar characters who bears the euphonious cognomen of "Duster," who immediately dusted, and at a rate of speed which would have surprised a professional sprinter. Fields was found in the residence of Mrs. Green, a widow, where he has boarded for the past six months or longer, and was taken to the Town Hall, where he was placed in a cell to await, the 6:01 P.M. train, which conveyed him and the officer to Westhampton, where doubtless Fields will have difficulty in explaining satisfactorily to the Justice, before whom be will appear, his reasons for deserting a good wife and young children.

• E. B. Winters, Deputy Sheriff of Westhampton
• Louis Tuttle, Overseer of the Poor
• Justice P. V. Ketcham
• Constable Jarvis Andrew Lattin (1853-1941)
• Orrin Terry Fields Sr. (1867-1932)

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