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Tom Horn
American outlaw
For the miniseries, see Mr. Horn. For the Western film, see Tom Horn (film).
For other people named Thomas Horn, see Thomas Horn (disambiguation).
Tom Horn | |
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| Born | Thomas Horn Jr. ()November 21, Scotland County, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | November 20, () (aged&#;42) Cheyenne, Wyoming, U.S. |
| Cause&#;of death | Execution by hanging |
| Resting place | Columbia Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado |
| Other&#;names | Tom Hale[1] Tom Hicks |
| Occupation(s) | U.S. Army Scout, lawman, cowboy, detective, |
| Years&#;active | – |
| Employer | Pinkerton Detective Agency |
| Known&#;for | Assisting in the capture of Geronimo; murdering Willie Nickell and killing his sister and his brother |
Thomas Horn Jr., (November 21, – November 20, ) was an American scout, cowboy, soldier, range detective, and Pinkerton agent in the 19th-century and early 20th-century American Old West. Believed to have committed 17 killings as a hired gunman throughout the West,& • Dr Beachcombing recently began a new series on non-standard methods of execution, starting with The Hanging Bed and Execution by Cannon. Let&#;s contribute to the grisly canon with this new and improved self-hanging gallows. AGAIN THE GALLOWS FOR THE MURDERER Death Penalty for the Punishment of Slayers of dock Will Be Revived in This State One Week From Tomorrow. SCAFFOLD BEING ERECTED AT THE PEN Grewsome Task of the Warden to Prepare to Carry Out of the New Law—How the Condemned Is Made to Hang Himself. One week from tomorrow the death penalty as a punishment for capital crimes will be revived in Colorado. It will then be ninety days since the legislature adjourned, the time limit when all bills unacted upon bygd the governor become laws. This law was among the measures that were neither signed nor vetoed. For the past month Warden E.H. Martin of the penitentiary has been busily at work getting the execution house at Canon City in readiness for victims who will be sentenced • Home > Tom Horn hanging November 21,
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THE PRESS, Philadelphia, November 21,
* Tom Horn execution by hanging
* Old West scout, lawman, gunman, outlaw
The front page has one column headlines: "TOM HORN, SCOUT, CAME TO AN END"
"Famous Indian Fighter, Hanged for Murder, Helps Adjust Noose About His Own Neck--One of Geronimo's Captors"
1st report coverage on the execution of famous scout, Tom Horn, in Cheyenne,Wyoming. wikipedia notes:Tom Horn has the distinction of being one of the few people in the "Wild West" to have been hanged by an automated process. A Cheyenne, Wyoming architect named James P. Julian designed the contraption in , earning the name "The Julian Gallows," which made the condemned man hang himself. The trap door was connected to a lever which p