Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-09-19
WIFE KILLER
 TALKS OF TRAGEDY
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or. It is just an ordinary pocket knife of ordinary size.
 Officers Hunt Murderer.

| In less time than it takes to tell Sheriff Brewster. Deputy R. H. Will Hams, Constable William H. Babcock of Niven township. who was sent for by Sheriff Brewster, and about fifty men and boys, all armed with pistols and shotguns and sworn in as deput- les by Sheriff Brewster, were SCOUT ing the woods for miles around in au effort to capture Nichols. His father was held as the officers thought that
 he might aid his son in making his escape. For the two remaining morn ing hours and all during the after nOon the posse searched every inch of the country surrounding the Ni- chols home. Finally. at about o'clock, the report came to the posse that Nichols, who had been hiding in a clump of bushes near his home, had gone back to the house. The officers surrounded the house, expecting Nj chols to put up a fight if his arrest was attempted After making sure that he was in the house Constable Babcock entered it and found Nichols there. He told him he was under ar rest and he peacefully surrendered to the officer He was hand cuffed and Brewster with his deputies and Constable Babcock brought him to the county jail here. The residents lof the neighborhood, all of whom were present when the arrest was made, said they wanted the law to take it's course; that they did not ap- grove of mob violence and that they knew that the proper punishment would be given Nichols.
 Talks of Tragedy.
 On the way to town with the off, eors Nichols talked of the tragedy un- ooncernedly. He said his wife had no weapon nor did she make any threats. He says he had gotten to a point where his patience was exhausted. T killed her because she tried to take my boy from my lap" said Nichols. At the county jail Nichols asked for a drink of water. He said he was i'll and that he could have escaped had he not been feeling SO badly. He feared, however, if he attempted to get away after dark that he might run into member of the posse and made up his mind to surrender to the officers and declares that he returned home for that and no other purpose.
 The body of Mrs. Nichols was brought to this city by Undertaken
 Ralph Robinson and prepared flor burial It was shipped early Monday morning to her old home in Ouachita county for interment, her sister, Miss Hattie Wright, of Camden, asking that the body be sent to her, Mrs. Nich- ols was 3S years old. Her aged moth CT died just a short time ago in Qua chita county. She was a fine musi- elan and taught piano lessons in this city in recent months.
 Married in Ouachita County.
 The beginning of what was a tragic ending of a sad domestic affair was recorded in Ouachita county on Feb ruary 23, 1902, when Miss Minnie E. Wright became the wife of William T. Nichols, then prosperous young coi- tractor of that county. They moved to Jefferson county several years lat CT and Nichols was given home stead and small place on the War ren road by his aged father He also has two brothers living ill this coun- ty, ore of whom is Henry Nichols, a we'll known dairyman. Four children were born to the couple. Myrtle. now 3 years old; Olive, 4; Jeremiah, l.. and Vera, 1-2 months, who died at that age few months after the cou- le separated on December 1, 1910. Nichols filed suit for divorce on . Y;.nuary 12, 1911. He charged his wife 1 with desertion and said she was Luarrelsome and commanding. She 1 f led an answer and cross-bill, but d.d not ask for an absolute divorce saving that she wanted her husband to support her and prayed for the custody of the children She denied all of the charges of her husband and added that he was cruel and harbar- ous to her, neglected his wife and children and refused to support her,