...les beyond, near to the place where Thorn was killed, and there murdered. It was said that he was first hung and then shot, but the testimony of the two men who prepared his body for burial— Major John W. Houghawout and Alexander McCown—who are living to-day, is that he was shot in the back, the large ball going entirely through his body. He was told to walk in front of the two men, who were his guards, ...