JEALOUS SUITOR KILLS MAN AND WIFE.
The body of IVnlter N'lchnl*, a prosperous young farmer, was found In a field near I West Cuildford. Vermont, on October 10. A J few hours Inter, the remains of his attractive twenty-year-old bride were discovered 'In adjacent woods. The body of Erring jwrie'.ey, who i* believed to hare committed the double murder and killed himseif. was I found in an uninhabited house. I There was a shotßun in Wrlsiey's bands whmi found, and it is supposed that ho slice himself after waylaying Nlrhols and bis wife lii turn. Wrlgley was employed as a farmhand by Nichols, and It Is believed he was infatuated with Mrs. Nichols, who was one of the prettiest younj; women, in tho district. Near the young woman's body in the woods stood a bay horse owned by Nichols, The horse was hitched to a hay mjira, It was one theory of the authorities thai the wife was carried In the wagon Into the woods and there slain. Mrs. Nichols was found to have been shot to death Her hasbnml wns slain by repeated, hammer blows on the skull.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 279, 22 November 1913, Page 17
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189JEALOUS SUITOR KILLS MAN AND WIFE. Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 279, 22 November 1913, Page 17
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