ALLEGED PATRICIDE
EX-NEW ZEALANDER CHARGED WITH TSDIE CRTMTR
By Holograph—Prose llssoomtion—Copyright: LCCNDON, August 16. James Hamilton Nicholas, who recently roturaed from .Now Zealand, where* ho had been sheep Donning, was charged at Kingaand, Coracfall, with murdering his father, a retire cl major of the Army, Medical Corps. The sou had boon in poor health. The father heard; steps in the house* nt midnight, and found his son apparently demented. The son seized 1 a sword uhioh was hanging on the wall, and fatally stabbed his father.
(Toecaved August 18, 0.20 0.m.) * ItKNDON, August 17. major Nicholas was a resident of Croydon, and was holiday-making bi Cornwall. He recently went to New Zealand to bring homo the murderer, aged twenty-eight, who had been in lunatic asylum.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7209, 18 August 1910, Page 5
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125ALLEGED PATRICIDE New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7209, 18 August 1910, Page 5
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