In Hall County Texas, four jails remain from early days. Their thick walls don't hold prisoners captive; they hold history. Some of the stories are the stuff of legend and talk. Some are documented, including the story of a young prisoner who became the most famous native son of the entire county, not just the little town where he spent the night in jail.

The territory is picturesque rolling farmland in the southeastern Texas Panhandle. The smallest jail in the county is at Plaska, barely a dot on the map. Oren Don Molloy owns a hunting lodge there, headquartered in Plaska's old general store. Molloy has heard stories from his own family. Sometimes people drop by and tell him more old tales. Some stories are written indelibly on the hardwood floor.

"Those marks right there, that's where people crushed their cigarettes out on the floor," Molloy said in an on-site interview, pointing to marks in front of the place where the old stove stood, gathering place in the winter.

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