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Poured Oil on Bed and Set It On Fire
Posted by: stubbytate (ID *****7557) Date: May 28, 2007 at 04:48:03
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A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Missouri >
Audrain
http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=3030

Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=37115
Submitted by: Gigimo

Article Title: The Columbus Enquirer-Sun

Article Date: July 1 1913

Article Description: Poured Oil on Bed and Set It On Fire. Missouri Man Guilty of
Murdering Wife and Child in This Manner.

Article Text:

Mexico, Mo., June 30.--John NICHOLSON, of Vandalia, Mo., pleaded guilty today to
murdering his wife and nine year old adopted son, by pouring oil over them while they
slept and setting fire to the bed clothing. NICHOLSON was sentenced to life
imprisonment and taken to the penitentiary tonight, ten days after the tragedy.


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