Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1912 — NICHOLS’ STORY IS FALSE [ARTICLE]

NICHOLS’ STORY IS FALSE

Admits that He Is Not Murderer of Dr, Helen Knabe. Portsmouth. N. H„ April 5. Seth Nichols merely imagined that he murdered Dr. Helen Knabe at Indianapolis last October, according to his own admission to the jailer at the Rockingham county jail here. Nichols said he had been laboring under a great mental strain, due to the death of his wife lie had read all the details of Dr. Knabe’s death, he said, and was so familiar with the story of the crime that he became convinced he had slain the woman, as he told the local police last Monday.