Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1911 — FARMER SHOOTS NIECE [ARTICLE]

FARMER SHOOTS NIECE

Jackson Baity Then Kills Himself with Same Revolver. Relatives of Wealthy Resident Near Xenia, Illinois, Can Assign No Reason for Tragedy. Xenia, DL, May 19. —Jackson Baity, a wealthy farmer with a wife and four children, shot and kiUed his niede, the wife of T. C. Bennet, and then committed suicide. Both were members of the foremost families of this section. Mrs. Bennet had" been from home shopping, but a short time when Baity stopped at her home on his way from Xenia to his home. It was his 59th birthday and he displayed postal‘cards he had received from his children. His victim s father-in-law asked him to remain for supper and requested him to come into another room, but Baity, saying he wanted to speak to Mrs. Bennet, who had stepped into the kitchen, followed her, drew a revolver and without warning fired, the bullet striking her back of the right ear, killing her instantly. Baity then went out doors and placing the revolver muzzle in his mouth fired, dropping dead. Relatives can assign no cause for the tragedy.