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MOTLEY COUNTY JAIL
Matador, Texas

Matador Texas Motley County Jail
Motley County Jail in Matador, Texas
Photo courtesy Terry Jeanson, September 2007

Motley County Jail

  • I have been to the grave sites and also been through the old jail where they lived. The living quarters were downstairs and the jail was upstairs. My grandfather had told me about living in the jail when he was a little boy and watching his dad hang men from a trap door in the ceiling. Sure enough, when I visited the jail there was the trap door."
    - Paul Cloyd, August 15, 2004
  • All the stories I heard as a boy growing up in Matador had it that no one was actually ever hanged in the Jail. It is true that the trap door is there. - Earle Price, May 22, 2005
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