Benson Hagglethorn

Benson Hagglethorn was a human male. He is mentioned in Grave Peril.

Biography
He lived over a century ago in Chicago. He was married to Agatha Hagglethorn, and had a daughter with her.

Benson was an abusive drunk, and his wife feared him. One day Agatha inadvertently suffocated their child while trying to muffle her cries in an attempt to avoid Benson's wrath falling upon the baby. Her guilt and rage over the child's death, and herself causing it, led her to take up an axe and kill her husband.