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Show I? B LIFE Husband and Wife Committed for Insanity on the Same Day. LIVED ON ISOLATED FARM ON NEBRASKA PRAIRIE Final Blow Came With Discovery Discov-ery That Little Child Was Dumb. CHICAGO. Sopt. 13. Simultaneously today Joseph Holdobler and his wlfo, whose homo was on a farm near Wake-flold, Wake-flold, Nob., woro deolarcd Insane. Tho couple were sent to tho Dunning asylum. Tho man and wlfo arrived In Chicago a fow days ago and wero wnnderlner de-raonted de-raonted with their two children when discovered by the police. Both Have Delusions. An lnstanco of husband and wife being declared Insane on tho same day and in the same court was declared by County Physician II. I. Davis to be extraordinary. extraordi-nary. He said thst npparriHy tho woman wom-an became possessed of delusions and these counteracted on her husband, whoso mind became afflicted. Their life on a lonely farm, said the doctor, probably contributed to the result Daughter of Princess. Tho Iloldoblers told a story that tho wlfo was a daughter of an English Prln-cevc. Prln-cevc. "I was taken to Munich, Germany, when 5 years old and shortly afterward she was murdered because she was an heiress to $1,250.003 " the woman said. "That monev Is still in England and I am tho rlshtful heir." The.Holdoblers lived on an isolated farm in a barren tract. The nearest neighbor was miles away. Thoy wero almost entirely en-tirely dependont upon each other's society, so-ciety, when their first child was born great hopo was based by the parents on tho future companionship of the young-si young-si or- Child Was Dumb. A year pnssed and It was found that thu child wns dumb. From tho shock of the discovery thr lonely parents seem never to have rallied |