Show J SAYS HE MURDERED HIS SON Zeb Zb Z b Nicholson Now How Serving a Peni Pent Penitentiary Penitentiary Sentence for Crime Crine Denver Colo Cob Aug 4 On his death deathbed deathbed deathbed bed William Thompson of VIlas Baca county has confessed that he killed his own son Benjamin H If Thompson aged a ed 1 13 and that Zeb Nicholson who Is acre sen serving ing a term of ten to twenty years ears fars In the penitentiary on a charge of murdering the I Ibe boy be is Js entirely innocent The Th case was brought to the thc attention I of ot Governor Orman A voluminous set pet et of documents was placed on ore on file fUe with wih the thc board of pardons which will hold a ape special spa bard cial eI meeting g gO to O investigate t the ac According gt to t these documents m et Thomp Thompson son on Nicholson who vho is now only 27 years ears of age from his home in Mis Missouri Kansas where h it is sour taking k him to o alleged Y Thompson killed two w men n for i their their money mone df and afterwards Informed I Nicholson J j the rimes me Ind hid showed him I where here the men te were buried bure bureA After A fter coming to Colorado it i is Js asserted the fer which had hd arisen asen between Thompson and Nicholson culminated in hi a I fight on o the e range in February DOt 1901 da and a I while tt they were engaged ri In a 1 hand d to band liand and struggle straggle a gun In itt l the hands of I ITh Thompson Th was discharged killing Rilling kUg his hisson hiSson hisson son Then it is i alleged ale d a plot pInt w was s con concocted concocted I to put Nicholson out of the way He H was arrested and at hit his trial trl Thomp Thompson hom homon son on testified areste that Nicholson killed Ilc his liis bisby boy box In cold blood Two other othe men swore that by they hey heard the dying statement of o ote the te boy 05 and her that it Implicated Nicholson Now Thompson who Is I suffering from ro an incurable disease and has ba nor not long to live Uve has signed dese a petition for or Nicholsons pardon and a confession conre ion that the prisoner Is the he victim of a con |