Another account of the lynching...

This is a story that came off of the telegraph wires from San Antonio (from the Humeston, Iowa New Era, Sep 3, 1885):

A MONSTER MOBBED

Al Lockie, the Slayer of Eight Persons in
Texas in One Day, Hanged by Vigilantes
-He Confesses His Crime, and He Says
There Were Six Others Whom He Want-
ed to Kill.

San Antonio, Tex., Aug. 29 - Information from San Marcos reports that a mob of seventy-five persons at Blanco on Wednesday night went to the jail and demanded of Sheriff Jackson the keys. Jackson said that he did not have them, and also declared that he could not procure them. After a severe struggle Jackson was overpowered. The keys were found on his person, and the mob then entered the Jail and took out Lockie, the man who committed wholesale murder in Johnson City a few days since.

When Lockie was asked if he had anything to say he replied: "I have." In reply to the question: "Why did you kill them?" he replied: "They were fixing to mob me." He was then asked if he did not remember that his brother had told him on the morning of the killing that he (Al Lockie) had better leave the country and go as far away from it as he could. Al replied yes. "Did you kill everyone whom you felt disposed to kill?" "No," replied Lockie, bitterly "I did not. Six are still living whom I intended to kill." "Do you wish to pray?" "I have been praying" said the wretched man: then turning to an old man in the crowd he said: "You pray for me." The old man declined, saying: "The Bible does not teach me to pray for those such as you."

This ended the preliminaries. While the conversation was in progress, Lockie was ordered to mount the chair and stand on it. The noose was then adjusted and attached to the bough of a tree. The driver, at the signal, moved forward and the murderer was left suspended. The drop was sufficient and death was instantaneous. He died without a struggle.

Lockies relatives and neighbors imputed to him crimes with his stepdaughter and his own daughter. On Monday last, Lockie went to the residence of his brother, Berry Lockie, and shot and killed Berry and his (Berry's) wife.

(This story then goes on starting with the second paragraph of the New York Times article).