TRAGEDIES.
MYSTERIOUS DEATHS. 'Tress Anvociation-By Telegraph-Copyright MADRID, August 16. In the lunatic asylum at Yalladolid five mysterious deaths occurred in a few minutes after the first symptoms appeared. A post-mortem examination failed to reveal the cause, the only signs being a red spot resembling a stmg on the face or neck. NEW ZEALANDER KILLS HIS FATHER. LONDON, August 17. James Hamilton Nicholas, who recently returned from sheep-farming in New Zealand, has been charged at Kingsland, Cornwall, with murdering his father, a retired major in the Medical Corps. The son was in poor health, and the father heard steps in the house at midnight, and found his son apparently demented. The son seized a sword from the wall and fatally stabbed his father. Received 12.20 a.m.. August 18th. LONDON, August. 17. Nicholas was a resident, of Croydon and had been holiday-making in Cornwall. The Major recently went to New Zealand to bring home the murderer who is aged 28 and who had been in a lunatic asylum.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14277, 18 August 1910, Page 5
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166TRAGEDIES. Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14277, 18 August 1910, Page 5
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