b'Tom Horn continued from page 43His fearsome reputation notwithstanding, Horn,Horn was brought back to Cheyenne, Wyoming, a place WICKENBURG unfortunately, had a weakness for alcohol, andhe knew too well from the Johnson County days, to stand Arizona Ranch style home with amazingunfortunately, too, his Old West that had so long beentrial in October 1902. While his employer and good friend views in Wickenburg Country Club!partial to gunghters was also changing with the turnCoble and Miss Kimmel strongly stood by him, Coble and There is a pool, spa, small horse set up with turn outof the century. His last mistake was to be hired by ana few other associates hiring a well-known railroad lawyer, and barn. The home boosts 2 master suites, one withold friend, rancher John Coble and his offshoot of theJohn W. Lacey to help Horn (Horan, The Gunfighters, its own private entrance! Almost 5 acres. Wyoming Stock Growers Association in settling disputesibid). It is said that for most part, the Wyoming Stock $439,000 with sheepherders near the Idaho line. Growers Association found him to be "expendable" andrefused to support Horn despite Coble\'s appeals to do so, LAND FOR SALE One such sheepherder was the Nickell family involved innot to mention the possibly rigged confession.a dispute with Coble\'s friend, rancher (not the notoriousHorn himself remained stoic throughout the trial merely 8 ACRES HORSE PROPERTY outlaw) Jim Miller. On the evening of July 18, 1901, Williedenying that he had murdered the boy. From the outset, flat and usable; private well + 4 shares in a shared well.Nickell, the 14-year-old son of the sheepherder was outdespite all of the dubious evidence, or lack of hard Castle Hot Springs Rd/Carefree Highwayriding fences near the gate of his home when he was shotevidence in place, the outcome was never in doubt.$165,000 (agent/owner) dead from ambush.Suspicion almost immediately fellHorn was sentenced to hang.47 ACRES OF SECLUDED LANDon Horn as he was known to have been in the area, was aadjoining State Trust Land with pristine mountainfriend and employee of Coble, and by extension a friendWhile awaiting execution, Horn penned his memoirs, (a and river views!Build your dream home and have plentyof rancher Miller who had been feuding with the Nickells.wonderful and very expressive read by the way) largely of room for the horses!Great access off of highway 60 andBut Horn had mysteriously disappeared. based on his participation and experiences as an Army McCarrolls Rd in Morristown. $198,500, MLS 5382128 60 ACRES LAND off Castle Springs Road and the Old Stage Road(San Domingo Wash and Eddies Wash). Gorgeous hill top views in the Wickenburg Mountains. Live off the grid with privacy andtom horn was hired as chief scout in the patented mining claims. expeditions to track down geronimo. $150,000 for all 3 parcels or $60,000 MLS- 5873968;Riding alongside horn $50,000 MLS-5873964; or $60,000 MLS-5873971 was a young army MAUREENsurgeon by the name SERRANO of Leonard wood. Saddle Up Realty and Property Management Wood, later becoming 623-521-2355a colonel, would mserranosellsre@gmail.com never forget horns stamina, endurance, and tracking skills.Veteran U.S. Deputy Marshal and Pinkerton man JoeScout in the tracking down and surrender of Geronimo, LeFors (oft spelled Lafors), fresh from his unsuccessfulsubsequent adventures as an Arizona lawman and as a tracking of Butch Cassidy and wanting to "redeem"gun-for-hire Stock Detective, and knotted a rope - his very himself was assigned to the Nickell murder case. He builtown hanging rope. Then, game as always, Horn attempted, up a case, then tracked Horn down, who had gone off toand nearly succeeded in escaping, knocking out a guard Denver to indulge in atypical (for him) drinking spreeand stealing his pistol. He managed to break free of the that ended up with the gunghter suffering a broken jawjail and get to the edge of town when the lawmen caught in a saloon ght with the boxer "Young" Corbett (whoup with him. Even then he might have been able to make may or may not have been "Gentleman Jim Corbett").a clean getaway except that the pistol he was carrying wasa new automatic one, not the Colts he was used to, and he LeFors, who may have known from their mutualwas unable to remove the safety catch.Pinkerton association, summoned Horn back toCheyenne on the pretext that he knew a wealthyBrought back to prison, and surrounded by guards, rancher in Montana was looking for a dependable Stock(in fact public outcry was so much in favor of Horn\'s Detective. So the bruised, battered, but still drinkinginnocence that the Wyoming National Guard was heavily Horn came back to Cheyenne, even though hebrought out to oversee the execution) Horn faced the had been warned that LeFors was making unfriendlygallows on November 20, 1903 (in a cruel twist of irony inquiries about him from his lady friend, a youngless than 24 hours before what would have been his 43rd schoolteacher named Glendolene Kimmell who hadbirthday) and according to almost all contemporary fallen in love with the old western scout. accounts died a very heroic and stoic death. Meaning his jailers no harm in his attempt to escape, Horn would tell LeFors subsequently met with Horn, came across asthem stories about his exploits and joke with them up to an old friend and colleague, supposedly plying thethe time he was taken out to his execution, marched out gunghter with drinks while they talked, (all the with his head held highly to the gallows, and even those while a stenographer hired by LeFors was taking downwho suspected him of killing the Nickell boy would say every word said in the next room) and in a dubioushe faced death with great fortitude singing and urging drunken interview supposedly got Horn, deep in histhe crowd to sing "Life\'s Railroad to Heaven" as the cups, to admit to murdering Willie Nickel, telling thenoose that he had knotted himself in the Cheyenne jail Deputy U.S. Marshal that he had "shot the Nickell boywas placed around his neck.at three hundred yards, and called it the \'dirtiest trickI had ever done. (Horan, James D., The Gunfighters,At the time of his death, Coble, Gwendolene Kimmell, page 242, 1976). and even his old adversary Geronimo openly questionedthe legality of Horn\'s execution, Geronimo saying he did When Horn sobered up he vehemently deniednot believe Horn was guilty of the crime, Coble writing murdering the kid, but the damage was done, and Horna touching memorial at the end of Horn\'s posthumous was arrested and taken into custody. published autobiography: "I am proud to say that he was 44 May 2019'