Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1902 — Found Dead In lee House. [ARTICLE]

Found Dead In lee House.

Lafayette Call. The body Austin Travis, a well known White < Co. teacher was found hanging in an ice house Thursday morning. The last time he was seen alive was on Monday evening, when he arrived from Round Grove township, White county, where be had gone to teach school and claimed to be sick. Since that time his whereabouts had been a mystery. The finding of the body was made about 11 o’clock that morning and was entirely accidental. There had been no suspicion of suicide associated with Travis' unexplained absence. John Bankson, the owner of the ice house, went to the place that morning so a load of ice. Be missed a portion of the rope he used iu hoisting the ice and a search for it revealed the cold and lifeless body

of Travis. Mr. Bankson drove back to Otterbein, and a number of citizens went back with him. The body was cut down and removed to the undertaking parlors of Gabriel & Chenoweth at Otterbein, where it now rests. Travis was about 37 years old and was a ditch contractor and school teacher by trade. He boarded at Ed. O’Leary’s and taught school in Round Grove township, White county. Be bad been acting queerly for a number of days. No cause is assigned for his desperate act. The deceased was unmarried and leaves no relatives beyond three brothers. The parents are both dead. Travis was well thought of throughout the community, was a man of quiet and | reserved disposition and possessed an intelligence above the average. 1