This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kolthoff Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Zk.2ADE/950.1 Message Board Post: Iowa Recorder (Greene, Iowa) July 29, 1925 NEW HAMPTON BANKER GETS 20 YEAR SENTENCE. New Hampton, July 27.--A. J. Kolthoff, president of the Darrow Trust and Savings Bank here, which closed its doors Wednesday, is on his way to Fort Madison, to serve a twenty year term for embezzlement. Judge Cooney, of West Union, imposed the sentence, Saturday morning, after Kolthoff pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzlement and confessed to taking $27,000 to pay off personal obligations. The arrest was made Friday afternoon by the sheriff of Chickasaw county, information sworn to, the trial held and sentence imposed in less than 24 hours. The whole county is agog over the arrest and conviction of one of its most prominent ben. Kolthoff is but 35 years of age, is married and has a two year old son. He has always had an excellent reputation and the town of New Hampton is dazed by this sudden conviction. This is the second bank this year at New Hampton to close its doors. The State bank was the first. Investigation shows that the loss is $100,000 and the county attorney believes this to be the amount misappropriated by Kolthoff.