Delve into San Antonio's wicked past, from the lawless lore of the
Spanish settlement through the criminal misdeeds of the modern
metropolis.
Residents of the Alamo City tolerated scores of cockfighting pits,
gambling joints, opium dens, around-the-clock saloons and other places
of ill-repute. Some disturbers of San Antonio's peace, like Judge Roy
Bean, left town to achieve greater notoriety elsewhere. Others, like the
thief who stole the McFarlin diamond, seemed to vanish into thin air.
But all of them left a page-turning story behind. Mike Cox catalogues
San Antonio's most infamous incidents and miscreants.