Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Batten, Nina October 21, 1876
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Norfolk Virginian October 24, 1876
THE MURDER CASE – POST MORTEM EXAMINATION – In the absence of Dr. R. H. Harris, 
City Coroner, Dr. James D. Galt, on Sunday last, held a coroner’s inquest over 
the body of Nina Batten, who, it is supposed, came to her death by poison 
administered Saturday morning by her step-father, Jordan Berry. After hearing 
the evidence of the case, the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the 
above supposition. Dr. Galt also held a post mortem examination of the body, 
extracting the stomach and a portion of the liver, which will be analyzed. In 
connection with this case, we would state that Mr. Millard King, a clerk in Dr. 
Cannon’s drug store, on Bute street, testified at the jail that he sold the 
prisoner five cents’ worth of arsenic, which he (Berry) said he wanted to kill 
rats with. The case will be examined before Mayor Tucker this morning.

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