Several Texas State Police die in a fight with the Horrells.
March 19, 1873. Seven members of the Texas State Police arrest Bill Bowen for illegally carrying a firearm in the town of Lampasas. They take him into Jerry Scott’s Saloon (big building in the picture). Inside are several members of the Horrell clan. They are in-laws to Bowen. And they quickly go for their guns. Four of the lawmen are killed and the rest run.
Police eventually arrest Mart Horrell and three other men in the case. They are moved to the jail in Georgetown. But on May 2, the Horrells and their friends break them out of jail.
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