Ogden Daily Standard | 1906-02-12 | Page 2 | Shot down in Wyoming

SHOT DOWN IN WYOMING I 1 cheyenne wyo feb 11 11 tom onell th tho chalk bluffs ranchman was shot by an unknown assassin at his ranch twelve miles south of cheyenne saturday afternoon but vill recover the bullet a passed through the fleshy part of the left leg between the knee and hip and lodged in the right leg about five inches blnche above the knee cheyenne surgeons wera called to the ranch by telephone died a nd dressed the wounds I 1 the shot was fired by a hired killer who adopted the tactics followed so successfully for foe many years by the late tom horn the slayer of willie nickell matt rash isham dart wil ham am powell william lewis and others but unlike horn he is a coward and did not come close upon his 1118 victim as a did horn in this case the assassin fired from a distance ot of at least a mile not daring evidently to come closer 1 set to onell oncil for the bullet haq had almost spent itself by the time it reached 11 d its victim irli this circumstances show also that ahe assassin ai aimed med at 0 enells cals Cj ls body the trajectory of the bullet alone saving his life the shooting of oneil Is but the enacting of another chapter of the 0 ONelIO neil Boyle feud which liar has been on in III weld county colorado andja and in the southern part of this laramie Lar amle county for several years A few weeks ago while on thel tha roundup round up tip the horse horio 0 of f one of ON ONci eils ls cowboys was sli shot ot from under him by tha hidden as as I 1 sin pat OC oyle ON ells eils neighbor ind and blitter enemy was vas arrested for the erline crime but there was as no LIVI evidence dence against again sChim him and ho he was folea released sd haystacks and out buildings hav 0 o been burned fences cut and st stock q I 1 scattered and unless ono one or the other of 0 the f moves out of the country there will surely bo be a killing hilling before long I 1