People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — CLUBBED HIM TO DEATH. [ARTICLE]

CLUBBED HIM TO DEATH.

Aged Pensioner Killed at Dayton in a quarrel with His Paramour. Dayton, 0., Sept. 12. —Ben T. Travis, aged 55, a pensioner, and Julia A. Batten, aged 54, his paramour. engaged in a qiiarrel with fatal results. The woman used a club on Travis, inflicting wounds about the head, from which he died a few hours later. She gave herself up to the police and claimed that tlie blows were struck in defending herself from his drunken brutality. They lived near the Soldiers’ home.