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Show TOM HORN'S CASE. Strange Story Regarding His Trial, Which Is to Como Up in Chey- enno Next Monday. ITRIIIUNT, SPECIAL Cheyenne, Wjn, May 15 A strange story concerning the case of Tom Horn, cattle detective, confessed murderer nnd all round desperndci, has leuke I out here. It Is In brief Hint when Horns enso comes up befote the term of tho District emu t, commencing Mas -Mil, It will bo postponed until tho fall term, und at tho full teim ostpnncd again, nml thnt the men who nro putting up the money for the defense will use every means to elefcit Walter It Stnll. prosecuting prose-cuting uttoiney, nt the foil election, und have him succeeded by il man who will not caie, nur dare, to prosecute Horn. That Horn knows enough to plnco some of tho most prominent cntllemeu of this section of Wsnmlng behind tho bais, und maybe cm the gallons Is gen-eially gen-eially believed, and there Is no doubt that the men behind him will not stop at any means, fair or foul, to prevent! hln divulging what he knows Slnco Horn's pitllmlniry hearing In January tho State has been working diligently on the tase ag limit him and every partlile of evidence to which a clue wns presented Ins been dug up The Sheriff and hi deputies havo v lulled the lion mountain country where Horn killed Willie Nlckell le peitedls-, nnd spent ilass among the ranchmen worming nut their knowledge of Horn's maneuver mid wheieaboutn prior to and lifter the commission of tho crime, It I said that Plnkertnn men have also been woilclng on the ,cnse Horn's nltorneys havo held seveinl long consultations with him In tho past week, but will divulge nothing concerning concern-ing their defense 'I hey also have had representatives working among tho ranchmen vv ho show a stinnge aveislon to appearing ns witnesses In the cise, espetlilly on the side of ihe Slate Whether this condition I the lesult of fenr nf Hoin should ho be freed or of work bj tho defense, cm only be surmised sur-mised While Horn, ln his tnlk with Jos Lo Tores ndinlltod tbe killing of two men and Intimated tliut h n ' mid lo settle a third who wns n cl In his own oorinl. the cleslic ot e State Is lei lasten upon him the th of WIIHo Nlckell Then with the gnllows In pios-pect pios-pect It Is hoped that he tan be Induced, m isbe for a commutnl'on rf sentence to Imprisonment to confess w ho the men tbnt paid him to male bis killings nre These nro the men who nro supposeei to I bo fin nulling the money for his defense and the men that the Slate desires tu get at. |