The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, January 2, 1908 AMANDA B. ANDERSON was before the commission, Friday, and was adjudged mentally unbalanced. Her condition was such that it was deemed necessary to take her to the hospital at Clarinda for treatment. She is the wife of FRANK ANDERSON, a Swedish gentleman residing several miles north of Chariton is 43 years of age and they have a family of small children. By hard work and frugality they had secured a small farm and had saved up money sufficient to build a new house and were expecting soon to enjoy some of the more modern comforts of life, but like many others their funds had been placed in the First national Bank for safe keeping and they lost it. Worry over this was the principal cause of her dethroned reason. Sheriff Gittinger took her to Clarinda, returning home on Saturday. This is the first sequel of the kind yet reported and the misery caused by this wholesale defalcation cannot be estimated. This good woman had planned and helped save that the family might enjoy the fruits of their toil only to be overwhelmed by disappointment. There surely is pathos in this and justice cries out against such wrong. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert January 17, 2005 iggy29@rnetinc.net http://www.rootsweb.com/~ialucas/Main.htm posted at this site with Nancee's permission