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  1. THE PARRAMATTA RIVER MURDERS.
    Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser (Grafton, NSW : 1859 - 1889) Tuesday 28 May 1872 p 3 Article
    NICHOLS and LESTER were found guilty of the Parramatta River murders at the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, on Tuesday last, and sentenced to death. Nichols displayed considerable coolness throughout ... 283 words
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  2. THE PARRAMATTA RIVER. MURDERS.
    Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875) Wednesday 20 March 1872 p 2 Article
    SINCE our issue of yesterday a chain of circumstances has come to light which leads to the unhappy impression that the murderers of Bridges, whoever they may he, have also been instrumental in offecting the ... 753 words
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  3. LATEST PARTICULARS. THE MURDERED BODY OF THE REV. MR. WALKER FOUND.
    Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875) Wednesday 20 March 1872 p 2 Article
    The body of this gentleman, who had boon missing for some days past, was, at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, found by a posse of police, who were despatched to search the Parramatta River. The search ... 1059 words
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  4. THE PARRAMATTA RIVER MURDERS.
    Rockhampton Bulletin (Qld. : 1871 - 1878) Thursday 4 April 1872 p 2 Article
    INQUESTS on the bodies of Bridger and Walker were held on March 20, respectively at Ryde, and the Observer Tavern, Sydney. The former inquest was closed, and the latter was adjourned ... 638 words
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  5. SERMON ON NICHOLS AND LESTER.
    Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875) Tuesday 25 June 1872 p 3 Article
    BY some means or other it became known that the Rev Thomas Smith was to proach upon the revolting career of Nichols and Lester on Sunday evening last, and it gives but a faint idea of the attendance to say that the church ... 1456 words
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  6. EXECUTION OF NICHOLS AND LESTER.
    Queanbeyan Age (NSW : 1867 - 1904) Thursday 27 June 1872 p 4 Article
    AT 9 o'clock yesterday (Tuesday) morning, within the walls of Darlinghurst jail, the condemned men, George Robert Nichols and Alfred Lester, underwent the extreme ... 3173 words
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  7. ANTECEDENTS OF NICHOLS AND LESTER.
    The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) Monday 8 April 1872 p 3 Article
    George Robert Nichols is a son of the late Isaac Nichols, shipowner and shipping agent, and is a native of Sydney. He is about thirty years of age, well educated, of good appearance and address, and ... 1860 words
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  8. PARRAMATTA RIVER MURDERS.
    Illustrated Sydney News (NSW : 1853 - 1872) Saturday 13 April 1872 p 2 Article
    DURING the four weeks just past, we have to use the words of Macbeth, "supped full with horrors." While we were all at our usual avocations, trafficking, haggling, ... 1267 words
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  9. PORTRAIT OF GEORGE ROBERT NICHOLS.
    Illustrated Sydney News (NSW : 1853 - 1872) Saturday 13 April 1872 p 3 Article
    THIS person, who at present stands charged with the murder of Messrs. Bridger and Walker, is a native of Sydney, and a son of the late Mr. Isaac Nichols, of this city. He ... 311 words
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  10. PORTRAIT OF ALFRED LESTER.
    Illustrated Sydney News (NSW : 1853 - 1872) Saturday 13 April 1872 p 3 Article
    ALFRED LESTER, alias Froude, appears to have come of respectable family, is a native of Dorsetshire in England, and is well educated. In appearance he is a mere lad, which ... 418 words
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  11. THE PARRAMATTA RIVER MURDERS.
    Illustrated Sydney News (NSW : 1853 - 1872) Saturday 13 April 1872 p 9 Article Illustrated
    VIEW OF FIVE DOCK BAY. SCENE OF THE DISCOVERY OF WALKER'S BODY. VIEW NEAR RYDE. SCENE OF THE DISCOVERY OF BRIDGER'S BODY. ... 17 words
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  12. PORTRAIT OF JOHN BRIDGER.
    Illustrated Sydney News (NSW : 1853 - 1872) Saturday 13 April 1872 p 12 Article
    IT has been a somewhat difficult matter to collect biographical matter in connection with this unfortunate man, who was one of the victims in the late dreadful Parramatta ... 517 words
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  13. SYDNEY. Monday Evening.
    Rockhampton Bulletin (Qld. : 1871 - 1878) Thursday 21 March 1872 p 2 Article
    Nichols and Lesters, who were arrested an suspicion of murdering Bridger, were brought before the Central Police Court to-day and remanded. ... 247 words
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  14. THE PARRAMATTA RIVER MURDERS.
    Rockhampton Bulletin (Qld. : 1871 - 1878) Saturday 6 April 1872 p 3 Article
    INQUESTS on the bodies of Bridger and Walker were held on March 20, respectively at Ryde, and the Observer Tavern, Sydney. The former inquest was closed, and the latter was adjourned ... 631 words
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  15. EXECUTION OF NICHOLS AND LESTER.
    Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (NSW : 1851 - 1904) Saturday 22 June 1872 p 3 Article
    THE closing scene of the Parramatta River tragety was enacted st Darlinghurst gool yesterday morning, when the criminals, Nichols and Lister, underwent the extreine penalty of the ... 1095 words
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  16. THE PARRAMATTA RIVER MURDERERS.
    Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (NSW : 1851 - 1904) Saturday 22 June 1872 p 3 Article
    AN act of most revolving nature, and one which ought to meet with severe punishment if the law can roach the offender, was perpetrated on Tuesday. From the information in the hands of the ... 306 words
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  17. NICHOLS' CONFESSION.
    Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (NSW : 1851 - 1904) Saturday 22 June 1872 p 3 Article
    THE following is a copy of the confession made by Nichels, the murderer of Walker and Bridger, [?] the Rev. Mr. Gainsford, before his execution:— I George Fuzgerald Nichols, was horn in ... 1488 words
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  18. NICHOLS'S EXTRAORDINARY LETTER TO THE REV T[?] GAINSFORD
    Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (NSW : 1851 - 1904) Saturday 22 June 1872 p 3 Article
    The following is a copy of a letter addressed by the prisoner Nic[?]ls to the Rev. Thomas Gainsford:— "The Rev. Thomas Gainsford the Mariners ... 1059 words
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  19. THE PARRAMATTA RIVER MURDERS.
    Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (NSW : 1851 - 1904) Wednesday 26 June 1872 p 2 Article
    The last scene in the terrible drama of these murders closed on Wednesday morning last, when, after the revolting exposure of their mangled bodies in a ... 919 words
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  20. SERMON ON NICHOLS AND LESTER.
    Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (NSW : 1851 - 1904) Wednesday 26 June 1872 p 3 Article
    By some means or other it became known that the Rev. Thomas Smith was to person upon the revelling career of Nichols and Laster on yesterday evening, and it gives but a faint idea of the ... 1420 words
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  21. THE BODIES OF NICHOLS AND LESTER.
    Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875) Thursday 20 June 1872 p 2 Article
    ON Tuesday afternoon information was convoyed to the police that the dead bodies of the men Nichols and Lester, after having been removed from Darlinghurst gaol at about 11 o'clock in the morning, for the purpose ... 375 words
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