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san antonio texas was a bustling and booming metropolis, already home to nearly 20,000 souls.

It was also located smack dab in what I like to call Wild West Central.

The Comanche may have been mostly relegated to the reservation at this point,

but there were still wild Apache out there looking to raise your hair,

as well as hundreds, if not thousands of outlaws, rustlers, narrowed wells, and road

agents, hoping to raise your billfold, some of whom found themselves locked up in the old

Bear County jail there in San Antonio, at least the ones who weren't immediately hanged. Remember,

this was the Old West, and back in them days, justice wasn't always just. And more than a few

accused got their neck

stretched before even so much a step in foot inside of a courtroom. That said, the lucky ones

not summarily executed would have the pleasure of staying at the shrimp hotel, the name

affectionately given to the brand new jail facility built there in San Antonio on Cameron Street.

Initially, a two-story limestone building

containing just 20 cells, the city would only continue to grow and with more population comes

more crime. Wasn't long before additional accommodations were needed, but due to zoning laws,

the builders could not expand outward, only upward. As such, the third floor, the jail was constructed,

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