People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — BEAT A CHILD TO DEATH. [ARTICLE]

BEAT A CHILD TO DEATH.

Indiana Farmer Guilty of Horrible Cruelty to Hla Niece. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 24. —Some days ago a physician was called to see Sallie Davis, a 12-year-old child who lived with her uncle, Martin Taylor, in Spencer county. She was suffering from bruises and cuts upon her body and seemed to be terribly depressed, and when asked how her injuries were received she made no reply. The girl grew worse and died three or four daysi later. Investigation shows that Taylor was accustomed to beat his niece unmercifully for the merest trifles, and two days before the physician was called he assaulted her with a broomhandle, beating her over the shoulders and upon her limbs till the child could not walk. The coroner returned a verdict charging Taylor with the murder of his niece, but he fled before he could be arrested.