FATAL STABBING AFFRAY.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12874, 18 August 1910, Page 3

FATAL STABBING AFFRAY.

DEMENTED SON KILLS HIS FATHER. '

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London, August 16. James Hamilton Nicolas, who recently returned from sheep ] farming m New Zealand, was charged at land, Cornwall, with murdering bis f was a retired major in. the Army-Medical Coiais. , TTie son Was in P«"'. hea l th '^ n 1 i t i! father hearing steps in the house at midnighrfound bfs ? The son seized a sword fZthe'waU and fatally stabbed his August 18, 0.20 am,.) v London, August 17. Nicholas is a resident of and was holiday making in Cornwall. The nrnfor recently went_£ M« >*£ land to bring him home. The murderer U2B;*SoW He had been ma lunatic asylum.