Lamo Johnny
Lamo Johnny died in early July 1879. A Deadwood dispatch printed in the New York Herald said he was being taken from Old Red Cloud Agency toward Rapid City in the custody of a deputy sheriff when the coach was stopped near Buffalo Gap, Dakota Territory, and that three masked men took him from the coach and hanged him from a tree nearby. A separate report in The Weekly Oskaloosa Herald said masked men took him from the sheriff's custody on a Tuesday and hung him from a tree. Whether the deputy or sheriff resisted, gave up keys, or handed him over is not stated in either account.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Masked men took him from a deputy sheriff's coach near Buffalo Gap, Dakota Territory, and hanged him from a tree, according to a Deadwood dispatch to the Herald.
Reported by: Deadwood dispatch to the Herald (reporters).