Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1908 — HAD WORKED TOO HARD [ARTICLE]

HAD WORKED TOO HARD

Manager of an Allis-Chalmers Department Found Wandering with 950,000 on His Person. Milwaukee. Wis., Aug. 7. —His mind unbalanced by work and heat Norman C. Bassett, aged fifty, manager of a department of the Allis-Chalmers plant, wandered for several hours about town until a patrolman took him to the police station. He carried a sacbel which was found to contain s.’>o,ooo In money, bonds and other negotiable paper, when opened at tha emergency hospital. When taken into custody Bassett talked incoherently, was unable to tell the officers anything about himself, even his name, and Imagined he was In a strange foreign city pursued by thieves. Bassett is a bachelor, an enthusiastic golfer, being a member of the Blue Mound and Country clubs, and a man of means.