In 1872, in Comanche T.D. Reynolds and two others, Mason and Roberts, were taken by vigilantes. The explanation to the locals was they were transporting them to the Erath County jail. The vigilantes headed toward Stephenville about midnight on October 20th. One of their number, Dr. T.D. Windham of Brown County, bought 36 feet of rope on the way out of town. The next morning the three prisoners were found hanged. A hasty inquest fond that the “prisoners came to their death at the hand of parties unknown.” The bodies were so poorly buried “that wolves dug them up and fed on them.”