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from Buggy.1 HAD ELUDED GUARDS DIE1rejrr»I*Well Known Character of This City Mild© a Fatal Mistake When He Iieft the Sanitarium at Oxford-— Murder Theory Scouted by Guardian of the Victim.—Valuables Found On Body By Searcher*.17areelt;riywIBEnomeHadnesdposeery.-CostTrive-ofB-idisiyy.V-idlteriaermieetrelietieor11-ern-:nadai-attotill e asraortinoslitp.tiGeorg© Nicholl •*$. of this city, beter known to his associates as “Benny/’ is dead at Oxford, O., as a result oi railing from a buggy and striking on hie bead, while returning from Hamilton, Sunday afternoon.It was at first ruposed that Nich-oil bad been murdered for whatever money ho may have had in hia possession, but this theory 13 scouted by his guardian S. H. Squire, who states that his ward had very little money lu his possession at the time of the accident.Nichol had been an inmate of a retreat at Oxford since laBt AuguBt and was to have returned to this city within a few days.Although he hao been closely watched by the attendants, he managed to elude them Sunday and in itfiFqtefl, * DP 4vS hroihrdcompany with an inmate named Louis Hcspes, the pair secured a rig Lmd started for Hamilton.It was not until the horso return-i ed to the barn Sunday evening that | it was mistrusted Mi at something I had gone wrong and a search re-'veulud the body of Xii boll lying beside the roau, the only mark on the body being a bad bruis? on the head.Early Monday morning Hospes put hn an apeparance and told the super-'intendent that Ilia companion had Ifallen from the buggy.Harry Wheaton, a scu-in-law of the deceased, left for Oxford Monday morning, and will aeompany the re-' mains to this city.George Nichol! was a son of the ■ late James Nicholl, of Amherst, he 'being one -of the heirs to the $!,-250,000 fortune whim has occasioned so much taik In re Terence to certain back taxes alien* d lo have boon due the conn tv a portion of which were collected and ihc collector allowed $3,0 00 tor \)U. bar vices.Nicholl commanded an income of about §12,000 n ylt;”r he having scoured a settlement with the executors of h's finhci’g estate, when lie was awarded a sum osMmuied at bc-Deai George Friday being • th© Eebo rriiafter m genera palrinj time a Sine very d was Inwas O] eyes a subsidconsci*Whlmightposedrecovcdeaththem.Hel stated in con Willia the gthe st In itsThe carbic 'began where there three room. 31cworse broth some lungs I wateii itjhe blt; Lentventing 1j vital. ‘ Su Enar \Ui ikdn y,
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Elyria Republican
Elyria, Ohio, US
Thu, Nov 10, 1910
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