Lackey Highway 281 Outlaw Loot — Blanco County

Texas Escapes columnist C. F. Eckhardt records that a Johnson City man named Lackey (or Lakey) killed relatives with a large knife, was jailed in Blanco, and was taken by masked vigilantes who hanged him from a wagon tailgate halfway between Blanco and Johnson City on the old wagon road west of present US 281. Truckers and travelers have reported a bloodstained hitchhiker with a foot-long knife along the highway near the conical hills called Sugarloaf — once known in Bernardo de Miranda's 1756 report as Los Pilones de Seguin. Outlaw-and-vigilante folklore sometimes places loot along remote highway corridors. Coordinates approximate the US 281 stretch between Blanco and Johnson City near Sugarloaf Hill in central Blanco County.