On Saturday, August 12, 1882, Deputy Marshal James G. Farr, and his posse, Thomas Young, arrested a man named Robert Love aka Robert Jones on a murder warrant for the murder of a Dr. Bailey at Lake West (present-ay Bryan County) in the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory.
As Posse Thomas Young was walking Robert Love to his horse, John S. Lennox and G. G. Randell, Robert Love’s brothers-in-law attacked Posse Thomas Young, shooting him eight times, freed Robert Love and escaped.
Young was treated for his wounds and for a while it appeared, he might survive but he died from his wounds on Friday, August 25th.
The burial site of Young is unknown.
Robert Love committed suicide several days after Posse Thomas Young died.
G. G. Randell was arrested later and tried but the trial ended in a hung jury and apparently, he was never retried.
John S. Lennox would go on to kill Deputy U. S. Marshal Dave Layman on April 10, 1883.
John Lennox was finally arrested almost twelve years later in September of 1894 in Texas, tried only for the murder of Deputy Marshal Dave Layman for which he was found not guilty.
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