Show RANCHMAN SHOT DOWN Thomas ONeil Attacked by Hired Assassin In Wyoming Cheyenne WyoTom ONeil tho Chalk Bluffs ranchman was shot by hn unknown assassin at his ranch twelve miles south of Cheyenne Saturday Sat-urday afternoon but will recover Tile bullet a 30no passed through the fleshy part of the left leg between tho knee and hip and lodged In the right leg about five Inches above the knee Cheyenne surgeons were called to the ranch by telephone and dressed tho pounds The shot was fired by a hired killer who adopted the tactics followed so successfully for many years by the late Tom Horn the slayer of WIllie Nickell Matt Rash Islam Dart William Wil-liam Powell William Lewis and others The assassin fired from a distance of at least a mile not daring evidently to come closer to ONeil for the Bullet had almost spent Itself by the time It reached its victim Tho circumstances show also that the assassin aimed at ONeils body the trajectory of the bullet alone saving his life |