Al Lackey wasn't very lucky

Made a stop in Blanco to see if any bad hombres were incarcerated in the Old Blanco Jailhouse.

Not today, but the jail figured in "one notorious frontier episode, the infamous Al Lackey killing spree. On August 24, 1885, Lackey set out with his rifle in the Pedernales River area to exterminate his own family. He successively killed his niece, brother, an elderly couple related to him, his daughter, and another relative, and nearly succeeded in killing his wife, son, and a neighbor. Captured in Johnson City, he was brought to Blanco and incarcerated in this jail. Two days later a mob gathered at Brushy Top, rode south to Blanco, yanked Lackey from the jail, and hanged him from a large live oak north of town, still standing on the west side of what is now Highway 281."

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