Emmanuel “Mannen” Clements

Clements was a cattle rustler and a ruthless gunslinger known to have killed a pair of brothers for challenging his authority on a cattle drive. He was later jailed in Kansas by Bill Hickok but was released at the request of John Wesley Hardin, Mannens’ cousin, who had become friends with Hickok. In October 1872, Mannen helped Hardin to escape from a jail in Gonzales County, Texas by slipping him a file, then pulling him between the jagged bars by a lariat. Despite his past, he ran for Sheriff of Runnels County in 1877, an election he lost. He died in 1887 at the hands of Joseph Townsend, the city Marshal of Ballinger.