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Show I CLINKlNb OF COINS CAUSES INSANITY I Los Angeles, July 27. Driven mad by constant indugelnce in her only pleasure the counting of pennies and small silver pieces, piec-es, begged from passersby, Leoa Seybold, an ancient character of the street corners, was sent to the asylum recently and there found today to be worth at least $300,000. Arrangements are being made to send her to the care of two sisters in Oklahoma, where she owns large tracts of land. Mrg. Seybold, a familiar figure on the street corners for years carried an old sack, slung from her bent shoulders. This receptacle recep-tacle received the small change that helped to build her fortune. Dr. Blondin. of the county hospital, said today that the incessant in-cessant clinking of coins as she fingered her hoard, was what had driven her mad. |