The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1903-11-26
tom HORN HANGED
FOR HIS MURDERS
Nonst Desperate ia History
the West Pays Penalty
Of, Crimes.
MOTHER WILL NOT KNOW
Carefully Planned Deception by Whici
She VIII Be Allowed to Go 10
Her Grave Ignorant OF His
C%areerfof Crimes.

AS Cheyenne, Wyo. Nov. 23.-Tom HorI
was hanged today for the murder OF
Willie Nickel, The 1~4-year-oId son of X
up. Nickel, IN Iron mountain ranch
man. No attempt at a rescue was
made and the execution passed Of
quietly.
Horn made Nc confession and nc
speech on the scaffold. He never losi
his nerve. The execution was wit.
messed by forty people, including
guards, friends of Horn and newspaper
men. Horns neck was broken by the
falling of the trap and death was i'll.
Simultaneous.
Horn was a celebrated army scout
Indian fighter and cattle detective. He
was the scout in charge of the party
THAT captured Geronimo, and was CHIEF
of scouts unde General Miles in his
Porto Rico campaign.
Tom Horn vas a professional inIr-
iderer, but his old mother, IS years OF
.agei in Scotland county, Missouri, will
never know the fate of her son.
His Mother Will Never Know.
Horn may be called the worst maj
known in the history Of the west, but
he has always had a filial reverence for
his mother. He had never allowed a
month to pass without writing a long
letter, and this habit had been kept up
during his imprisonment, without any
reference to the incarceration. IIe had
written ten letters addressed to his
mother to be delivered at intervals
OF a month after his death, to keep up
the deception Of his life. His brother
sand sister had sanctioned the subte1t-
fuge, so 1T is possible that Mrs. Horn
will so to her grave safe in the belief
that her oldest boy was one of the
most dutiful sons and best citizens of
Wyoming. She also will receive a small
allowance monthly from John c.. Coble,
Horns old employer, who had re-.
manned true to the prisoner. The
money will be forwarded In the name of
her son.
Horns crimes will never be num-
1bered, but seven or eight murders are
laid at his door on indisputable evil
tdence.
Utah Murderer Shot to Death.
Salt Lake, Nov. 20.-Peter Mortensen
was shot to death today for the murder of
James r. Hay in December, 1901. Morten.
son was indebted to a lumber company Of
which Hay was secretary, and had been
urged to make payment. On December 10
he called at the office Of the company and
said he had money, in gold, concealed in
his cellar, and asked Hay to come around
that night and get it. The men were neigh
bors. Hay left his house in the evening,
stating he was going to Mortensen's to
collect some money. That was the last
seen of him alive. On December is Hays
body was found buried In a shallow grave
in the middle of a pasture not far from
Mortensen's home.
Mortensen maintained his innocence
to the last. He walked to a chair
placed against the heavy stone wall of
the prison yard without weakening.
and babe the guards n deputy sher-
ifs good by with no treInor in his voice.
He was killed instantly, four bullets
from the rifles of the executing squad,
concealed behind a thick curtain in the
door of the blacksmith shop, twelve
yards distant, piercing the white target
pinned over his heart.