Travels Through the Wind

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It was announced that Isaac Putnam Fielding, the sixty-year-old New Yorker awaiting trial for his part in the Empire Day outrages of 1976, took his own life on 18th November 1977. The statement issued by the Home Office reported that he was found hanging in his cell at Wormwood Scrubs Prison, in West London, in the early hours of that morning. Attempts to revive him were made but he was declared dead on arrival at St Thomas’s Hospital.

Fielding was the author of the book ‘Two Hundred Lost Years’, for three decades the semi-liturgical source book for a succession of obscure secessionist and anti-imperialist groups mainly based in the Crown Colonies of Massachusetts, New York, Delaware and Virginia. His history is a murky one given that he was for many years an undercover operative of the Colonial Security Service (CSS), for whom he remained a so-called ‘confidential informer’ until as recently as 1972. Rumours abound that Fielding was at various times used as a paid agent provocateur by more than one New England constabulary, infiltrating a group known as the ‘Brothers of Liberty’. His association with the CSS appears to have terminated unhappily, coincidental with a brief mental breakdown he suffered after his wife, Rachel’s, death in 1973.

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