Category: Tom Horn
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On This Day in History, the Notorious Hired Killer Tom Horn is Executed for Murdering Willie Nickell, the 14-year-Old Son of a Wyoming Sheep Rancher. November 20, 1903.
Image: Tom Horn braiding a rope in the Laramie County jail office in Cheyenne, 1902. (Public Domain) Several historians have subsequently doubted whether Horn murdered the boy, indicating that the jury condemned him merely because of an intoxicated admission of guilt that Horn purportedly made to a deputy sheriff. Also, the jury did not give sufficient…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 