1901-Fourteen-year-old Willie Nickell was ambused and killed at the front gate of his dad’s ranch. Tom Horn was arrested for that killing, convicted of that crime, and finally hanged for it. But he may have been innocent. Certainly he was guilty of similar crimes though.
1884-Tom Nixon took a pot shot a Mysterious Dave Mather inside the Opera House Bar in Dodge City, Kansas. The shot missed and Tom was arrested and released on $800 bail.
