Show T I 1 I 1 TONI HORN EXECUTED met death W th a smile and declared his innocence to the last tom horn the cattle detective convicted of the murder ot of willie nickell the 14 year old son of kels P nickell an iron Moun mountain tata ranchman was banged hanged in the laramie county wyom ing jail at 11 0 clock friday his neck being broken by the fall of of the trap horn died game even meeting death with a grim smile on his lips and protested bis his innocence to the last just before marching to the gallow gallows he wrote the following letter chey enne wyo november vember iMo 20 10 45 a in john C coble esq city I 1 die in ten ton minutes I 1 did not kill willie nickell I 1 never made an admission to lafors or snow and all swo e to lies including irwin ot of lara mie signed tom horn ten minutes before he was bound for the scaffold he lay on his cot smoking a cigar and looking out at the spectators during the twenty two months that horn was confined in the county jail there were frequent reports of plots to liberate him many of these plots had been arranged but the publicity given them and the preparation mad mada at the jail to resist an attack had tho desired effect on august 9 last horn assisted by jim Alc mccloud Cloud a notorious character who Is alleged to have murdered ben minnick in big horn county overpowered jailer and escaped to the street but the jailer had battled with them for nearly halt half an hour and the desperadoes were wind ed and did not get tar far aiom the jail at that time horn attempted to kill proctor I 1 it t Is estimated that the conviction of horn cost laramie county upwards of 35 and that horn s friends spent even a greater amount in their effort efforts to tree free him horn was suspected of the murder ot of a mexican army officer william Wll llan powell and william lewis matt rash and isham dart of drown s parl colo and two or three others horn was a self educated man he ile spoke german spanish apache and a number of indian languages fluently |