Was Tom Horn really guilty of the murder for which he was hanged?
Scott Duvall
Appleton, Minnesota
Tom Horn was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on November 20, 1903, for the ambush killing of 14-year-old Willie Nickell. The debate on his guilt or innocence is still going on.
Dean F. Krakel, author of The Saga of Tom Horn, believed Horn did shoot Nickell in a case of mistaken identity. In Tom Horn: Blood on the Moon, Chip Carlson argued that Horn most likely didn’t kill the boy.
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