Show MURDERER TOM IORN PAYS n PENAlIYI I I I + + + + + + + + + + + + I L + Just before marching to the gul + I + lows Horn woe the following let + 4 ur r V Cheyenne Wyb Nov OlOI + + n i mIohn C Coble Esq City + l + r die Iii ten minutea I did not I kill + + Willie Nickel I never I made nn + + admission to La Con Ohnlians or + + Snow anil 1 swore to Her Includ + Ing Irwln J of Jaii nile + + TOM T HORN 4 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Cheyenne Wyo Nov WTom HOn died at HiCS a ml game to the last and 2 smiling His neck was broken by the fall of UK trap No attempt at rescue was made and the execution passed off nuielly Horn denied that ho had over confessed the murder of Willie Niukell 7 but told his sulrltual I advisers ho hat been guilty of crimes bait not wilfully so I Ten minutes before he was bound for thc scaffold he lay on his cot smoking a ilKnr and looking out at the spectators specta-tors Frank and Charles liwin 1 sang a sentimental cowboy Kong and were allowed al-lowed t shake hands with Horn 2 GAME TO THE END I Horns last word was to Joseph Ca lilll Counly Clerk who assisted on the scaffold Ainl losing your nerve are you Joe said Horn Then the cap was adjusted and lie stood with clenched fists waiting for thc drop I HEADY FOR EXECUTION I When the spectators had boon adv ad-v milted to the In I the Rtv George II i I t Rafter 1 climbed up n ladder to tie tier 0 ln which Horn i wns confined and 1 opened a prayer I book le massive lon doors opened as Under Sheriff Proctor Sheriff Sher-iff I Siiiallcy County Clerk losoph Caliill and Deputy Sheriff Leslie Snow appeared ap-peared GREET OLD CQtAI TEST TES-T lu fTot up on his couch and walked out of the door He was pale alI thin from Ioni confinement hut he was game v Charlie Irwln will ting saul Proctor VLH Horn nearecl tho edge of the balcony and looked down Hello Tom said Invin I with a pleasant smilr amid I a 1 wave of the hand Ill Charlie answered Horn I with a smilo SONG BIT COWBOYS Cliarllti I anil Finnic Irwin I then sang that old cowboyrailroad song Keep Your Hand lpon the Throttle and Your Eye Upon the Rail Gin1 rich yet untrained un-trained voices J of the two brothers rang through t the corridors and brought tears lo ii cycif of the speciatoiv OLD FlU ENTS WITH MURDERER When the song waa finished Prottor I raid Charles amid Frank Irwln will r aas around to the left and conic above Thank I you Eil said Tom and tho twj biolhorx were on the hal tony In another moment DENIES MAKING CONIBSSION Tom said Charlie did you make a conferjslon to time murder of Willie I luhon 1 No Well Tom a mans got to die only iflip ant It has to be to be came Yon bot I will Its 1 m vell first as last l t you know 5 Yes Its all right j GOODBYE OLD MAN Well Koodbyi old man I will 1 1 t could do somclhinjj for you la IJierc i anything you want me to do No I wrote Coble this morning Goodbye I Good-bye Goodbye The two Irwlns passed around back to the lower floor in j the front where they were within five tcctof the drop FASTENING THE STRAPS I I I I Proctor began to fasten the straps I Horn turned and twIsted to suit the executioner I ex-ecutioner Well Joe he said to Ca hlll I lear you arc married and Iolng I well ihut you are County Clerk Is that so Yes Tom its true answered Cahill I Ca-hill Woll by God Im glad to hear i JOKES ON SCAFFOLD I Horns can < < ore then securely I pinioned to his body ant he was all ready for the final strap on his feet Between Be-tween Smalley Pi odor and Cahill ho walked rut on to the platform with short stens and toll looking at the noose Ill have to have a hand to get on that tiling lid Horn with a ghastly ghast-ly smile Whals the matter Joe to Oahill who was rubbing his chin nervously ner-vously aInt losing your nerve are you THRUSTS HEAD 1 = NOOSE Proctor picked up tIme noosu at 1101 I oclock amid started to place It over Horns head file condemned man coolly ducked ills head and thrust it through the noose PRAYED FOR DEPARTING SOUL Dr Rafter prayed earnestly for the ialvatloii oC he departing oul Proctor I took up the black cap and slipped it over he t doomed mans head and in this he was assisted by Horns movements of thc neck HANGS HIMSELF Cahill jnd Smalloy lifted Horn to tim > trap I door Instantly water begun to run from the tcul nnd in 50 seconds the trap foil a Ho suro lcil < l Ham said Charlie Ir win a minute later I There was no answer an-swer The spectators passed out each ihaklng lianila with Proctor and I hallllf IIi wi PlOCtOI commending com-mending him for I lie faultless execution tOll PRONOUNCED DEAD In 1 just sixteen minutes after the drop Horn was pronounced dead by phyal I i I clans and his body taken down I was I t turned over to Charles Horn a brolhur of the dead man and laken by 1 him to J Boulder Colo for burial i STORY OF HORNS CHIME I Cowardly Murder of Willie ITIckell I Exciting Trial I For ycar molhcrs In their humble hOI on the Wyoming range will tell I the story of Tom Horn IDEAL FOR A BOGIE I I Tlorji wai the Ideal for a bogle toy For years Ihe was the terror of the small ranchmen and sheepmen In Wyoming Wyo-ming riding from ranch to ranch in search of cattle strayed from thi Cobb outfit Ho Was a range rider or cattle detective wliono buslncty it was to cut out ills employers cattle and drive them to the herd But that was not all STORY OF HIS CRIMES Horn I I WUH a bad man from his youth uip and stories of hit killing are numerous nu-merous chief among them being Mail llash and Ishain part in Colorado an < J Willie Nlckcll for shooting whom he Is to be hanged on Friday There ara others who have died sudden dcalhs and the suspicion of Horns guilt Is I strong Anyway on Friday the life of one of the worst desperadoes of the West will cease at the nooseend o a hangmans rope BIG BODY BAt FACE Horn is a big lanky man over six feet tall and broad in the shoulders His < face is weak and his eyes the peculiar pe-culiar beady ones often teen In criminals crimi-nals of the low types As a plainsman ho was one of the best No on ft could outshoot him 01 outride him he was handy with the knife and quick with his sixshooter and he was a smooth talker I CATTLE AND SHEEP TROUBLE To comprehend the cnuscii loading up to the killing o the boy Willie Nick I I oil It Is I neccssary to know that thc Coblo ranch in the Iron Mountain region f re-gion Is one of the largest outfits InV in-V and that the sheepmen were encroaching upon it Wherever a sheep seta foot cattle will not graze and John Coble viewed the corIng of lie sheep men with an unfavorable eye The Inches o the smaller cattlemen were In the Coble ranch proper 1 being fenced off Alth the interminable barbed wire Kcls P Nickell came to the country and being 0 quarrelsome man soon became disliked by his neighbors the nearest being the Millers two mlley away The Coble or Tuo Bar outfit look up the grievance against Nickell I and his fihcop wcro frequently found scattered and killed with no evidence of the perpetrators Charles Irwlu la foreman of the Two Bar now and at the time of hill crime Horns I best friend Duncan Clark hold that POE lion Frank Jrwln and Frank Stone wore also in the crowd and Otto Plaga a German friend of the t murderer lived a short distance from time home ranch The country Is rough and sparsely covered cov-ered with a dry graes and age brush 1 with i now and then a clump of scrapgly pines on a ridge There is much atomic In the country HOW THE BOY WAS KILLED PII a hot summer cay In IflOl Willie Xlckell 1 years old was found dead I by 1 tho side of a wire irate through which he wns to ride to the Iron Mountain Moun-tain I station Ho I bad evidently run to his horse after I tin first t shot for thero wero trail of blood leading toni the gale The month of a draw waa sit ualed at about 300 yards from the gate I and in thiy the murderer evidently Jay In wait I it was thought t for ihs P Nickell the father bill that the boy had seen the assassin and had run to warn him Tho shot was a lonj one but thai boy wnr hit twice In the body In the same median lino with niush rooniluK bullets He lay there two days nnd when found va s In a state ofputro action uo that little could be told about lie wound 01111 lle FATHER SHOT ALSO I Horn wan in the country at the limn and was taken I before the Coroner but was released and the Miller i boy Victor Vic-tor arraigned Ho also wan released Later Horn was brought 1 on supple montary proceedings and again released re-leased This was following upon an attack at-tack upon Llio father I who wan ont In six places and brought sixty I t milts over the rough road in a box wagon to Cheyenne LA FOilS ON THE CASE At this juncture a reward of 1000 Wil ip pllftrcd I by lip Upvernment ant L1 Sl tYit w 1 1 rom Horn the notorious army scout and detective hanged at Cheyenne Wyo Nov 20 1903 for the murder mur-der of William Nickell Deputy United l Stales Marshal Joe La Fors a smoothtongued closemouthed Southerner I WHS put on the case He suspected Horn from the start and SCout SC-out lo trap him aided by Walter Stol the profocullns attorney aa clever a criminal lawyer an the I West holds Together To-gether they weiivcd a web ground the unfortunate I Horn I i ml nid located him I at all times I of the day before and nCtor the murder os veil as at the time oC the murder as near nH could bo determined deter-mined They found thnt lie had stsiyoil ai the home of his pwoothcart Miss i Gwendolyns Irene I IClmmcl 1 a schoolteacher school-teacher of mixed ua t ionmuhltyGeunmmui Korean and Japoim the day and nIght previous to tho t murder and had ridden rid-den In tho I direction of the Nickell ranch Then they proved a rapid ride to the homo ranch and thence lo i Iara mle upon which he must liavo had relays re-lays O the ride would have been tin puwible TRAPPED IY A PlUCK Hut the crowning piece of evidence and a trick I al the so toe nine I was secured se-cured from Horn himself while he was talking off the effects of a nights spree La Fors hoard thai Horn was drinking In town I and arranged for Cliarleat Ohn house 1 stenographer and hesiie l Snow a Deputy Sheriff to lie behind a door of his oillce through which they could luar ordinary conversation Then on Sunday morning ho corralled Horn and look him up lu his oflico Once there l he worked his victim carefully care-fully by h starting a tale of his own hi I dolnfiH In lho Indian Territory mid other places lending the rnttluuian u toll some of his killings They boantod awhile of dead Indiana and ivhulte des piMudoep hey were accountable for and then Izi Fora In a soft Insinuating tone said flow about luil Willie Nlukcll affair af-fair Tom I never could see hov you covered up your tracks so well Well you see II I ivan lhl Vtty Horn I begun speaking low Suppose a fuller I was hid in the draw three hundred hun-dred yards from thin gate and the I kid Continued on Page 5 HORN PA YS PENALTY Continued from Page 3 I conies riding down on a bronc lie pets off to open the gate and sees the feller Then he turns to run and warn the old man and the feller opens on him with his Winchester and hits him twice Tin kid falls dead Then the feller skins away barefooted over the sninbaked ground and dont leave no tracks It was the best shot I ever t anode and the dirtiest trick I ever done NO TROUBLT3 FOR SMALIYEY The warrant was sworn out and placedIn the hands of Sheriff Smalley a giant Celt Just out of a bad attack of typhoid and he held It for several days Then he got word that Horn was drinking In the bar of the Inter Ocean hotel Horn greeted him cordially l cordi-ally and aa they shook I hands Smiley I Smi-ley reached over with his left and I I J A 4 fl lj II < r1 jj 1 p I f L t 9 1 v r J J I I J i tit + t r f ffi c 1 t Jfs jl r t 1 r t I t1k d 1 ol 6FID h < i 1 llI I r ci f I t 1i GIi > J < t v to < 1 I tJ J 1 1 i tt io f 0 i t t l = i Tf t t prr r m i fr J y i I J I v 1hf iiit v oJr i r It fttf f r I s Er I trlr f lj y n 1ffrlg 1 J Under Sheriff R A Proctor who built the gallows and superintended the hanging Proctor fought 30 minuto battle with Horn and Jim McCloud when they broke jail last August Horn attempted to murder mur-der Proctor pulled Horns sixshooter from Its holster hol-ster and said quietly Toni retie my man He was so dazed that he followed th Sheriff docilely out of the saloon into the street and was lodged In the Lara inle county Jail at Cheyenne to await lie grand jurjs action lie was held for trial and in October lllOJ before Judge Scott the case came off BIG CnOWDS AT THE TRIAL Tt was the most celebrated case of its day and the crowds at lie trial were dense while ouUide the ranchers who had been summoned In scores stood around nnd played quoits One day they had a dance on the pavement and the prisoner smiled as he heard the music He was defended by the ablest men his outfit could secure Judge Lacey headed the corps ot lawyers and with him were United States District Attorney Purke Matron it Kennedy l and Mr Clark Walter Stoll prosecuted prose-cuted I HORN ON T1JE STAND Witness after witness was examined until finally Horn himself was called to the stand He gave rational accounts ac-counts of Ills doings and whereabouts that week and then Judge Lacey sprung the prosecutions card by tainting taint-Ing up the confession piecemeal and having Horn acknowledge the whole thing laughing it ofT as so much cowboy cow-boy josh Stoll crossexamined viciously 1 vicious-ly but could not shake the witness Hin nerve was admirable and he stood the terrible ordeal of those 1 two days without with-out a sign of breaking down The evidence evi-dence was nearly all circumstantial and when at the end of ten days the attorneys were through summing up and the case given over to the Jury most people looked for a disagreement To their great surprise the Jury came In in live hours time with a verdict of guilty lie was sentenced to death by hanging but numerous attemps to free him legally were made and thwarted Once he made a break for liberty with another man and If he had known how to use a safety pistol which way all he could get hold of he would havu succeeded Since then his cell has been guarded stronger than ever and all attempts at-tempts foiled Friday has been Horns evil day for nearly all that happened In the Willie Nlnkcll case happened on Friday and It may or may not be a coincidence that Friday was chosen for his hang ing |