A FATHER MURDERED.
CHARGE. AGAINST EX-NEW ZEALAND SHEEP-FARMER. B» Tole«r»Dt>— Press Association—CotiyrUbt '. ■ London, August IG. James Hamilton Nicholas, who recently returned from New Zealand, where he had been sheep-farming, was charged at Kingsand, Cornwall, with murdering his father, a retired major of the Army Medical Corps. . .' ■ The son had been in poor health. Tho father heard steps in the house at midnight, and found his son .apparently demented The son N seized a sword, which,was hanging on the wall, nud fatally stabbed his father. ' ■ SON A RELEASED LUNATIC. (Rec. August 18, 0.20 a.m.) -London, August 17. . Major Nicholas was a resident vof Croydon, and was holiday-making in Cornwall. Ho recently went to New Zealand to bring homo his son, aged 28, who had been an inmate of a mental hospital. .
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 898, 18 August 1910, Page 5
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130A FATHER MURDERED. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 898, 18 August 1910, Page 5
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