For 4 years the old Blanco County Jail in Johnson City sat empty as an Arizona rain gauge, but the drought broke in August 1923 when Sheriff A. J. Wagner slapped the cuffs on 2 desperadoes for “taking a joy ride in another man’s Ford.” “While the record, which took four years to build, is all shattered here today,” the Llano News reported, “the officers and residents are consoling themselves by pointing out that at least none of those placed under arrest are residents of Blanco ...