Fornshell, Marvin E, THE HISTORICAL AND ILLUSTRATED OHIO
     PENITENTIARY, 1907-1908, Image clarified and copyrighted 1997
     by Arthur W. McGraw, page 158

Name:      William NICHOLS (Prisoner 35058)
Crime:     Murder-robbery
Location:  Hardin County
Executed:  9 December 1904
NOTES:     "Wm. Nichols, a mulatto, was electrocuted Dec. 9, 1904,
           for shooting to death Alfred MINARD, in Hardin county,
           July 28, 1903; robbery being the motive.  Nichols was
           a Kentuckyian by birth, and both he and his victim 
           were U. S. Veterans of the Civil War."