Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1912 — Seth Nichols Sentenced to Jail For Stealing Clothing. [ARTICLE]

Seth Nichols Sentenced to Jail For Stealing Clothing.

Seth Nichols,, a former Jasper county boy, who created a sensation recently 1 by claiming to be the murderer of Dr. Helene Knabe, of Indianapolis, and who later denied his confession after it was shown that the night the murder occurred in Indianapolis he was aboard a U. S. ship on the Atlantic coast, was Monday sentenced to the Navy Yard Marine Barracks at Portsmouth, for having stolen cldthing in Boston following his desertion from the U. S. Marine Corps. He is believed to be mentally affected.