When Asotin made national news
Asotin is both the name of a small, lightly populated county in the southeastern corner of our state and its county seat. You don’t hear too much about Asotin these days. But that was not the case 80 years ago when a 12-year-old boy named Herbert Niccolls Jr. was convicted of first-degree murder for shooting and killing Asotin County Sheriff John Wormell (shown here on the left, photo courtesy of Washington State Archives) on August 5, 1931. The murder trial…