Iowa
Old Press
Nashua Reporter
Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa
June 7, 1900
A stranger stopped at the home of Clark Tibbitts, near
Fredericka, Sunday evening and applied for a night's lodging,
which was granted him. Nothing strange or unusual was noted in
his appearance or manner up to the time of his retiring, but in
the night the family were awakened by an uproar from the guest's
chambers that soon they were harboring a nuisance. The stranger
was kept locked in the room until Constable Jerry Sullivan could
be summoned who took him to Frederika and the following day
accompanied him to Waverly, where his condition was investigated
by the insane commissioners. The afflicted one proved to be a
resident of Arlington from whence he had wandered on Saturday and
it was learned from him during his lucid intervals that his name
was C.H. Richmond, age 44 and unmarried, and that he had been
much worried of late on account of his father, who was lying at
the point of death. Sheriff Parrott telephones to Arlington and
found his statement to be true. The commissioners investigated
his case Monday afternoon and the sheriff conveyed him to the
asylum at Independence the same evening.-- Waverly Democrat.
[submitted by C.J.L., Oct. 2003]