Vigilantes in 1872

In Comanche County T.D. Reynolds and two others, Mason and Roberts, were arrested by vigilantes. They explained to those watching that they were taking the three to the Erath County jail. On the way out of town Dr. Windham bought 36 feet of rope. About midnight on October 20, 1872, the prisoners were hanged and a hasty inquest the next morning found that “the prisoners came to their death by parties unknown.” The bodies were so poorly buried that a few days later “that wolves dug them up and fed on them.” Britton [I’ve lost the rest of the book information]