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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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