Posted by gitrib on April 05, 2013 at 07:51:25 from (108.203.179.59):
GANGSTERS
One of the famous outlaw gangs of the early 30’s was the Dillinger Gang. One day, Dad, came home from delivering milk and told us that he had seen a shoot out. He had been traveling down one of the streets on which was located the police station.
Apparently, some one had spotted some of the gang in an alley across the street. Dad just happened to be going by when the police came charging out of the station firing at the gangsters. He made a quick exit and found out the next day that they had shot and killed a couple members of the gang.
Later the family had another run in with the gang. We had been in town shopping on a Saturday afternoon and returned to the farm. Federal agents greeted us. We could not get on the farm. They were in the middle of organizing a search. A gang had been spotted in the area. As we waited cars started coming in the yard. In the thirty’s, cars had running boards as standard equipment. Men were standing on the running board with submachine guns. They jumped off and others got out of the cars and went in the house and all of the other buildings on the farm. All of a sudden all of the men came running out of buildings jumped on the cars and took off.
There was a big hill north off the farm. It had railroad track at the bottom that was used to bring trainloads of sheep in to a big feedlot that was located on part of the hill. The rest of the hill was used by one of the big tractor companies as an experiment station. The lawmen had been notified by one of the worker at the experiment station that someone was walking along the railroad tracks. They were off after who ever it was.
This old farm was called a sand farm. It did not have rich black soil. One thing it would grow was sandbur. Not the goat head type, but real sandbur with a full complement of stickers.
When the gangsters realized they were being chased they looked for a place to hide or try to escape. This was the fall of the year and one field was planted to soybeans. It was infested with sandbur. Member of the gang got to the field and started crawling between the rows on their hands and knees trying to get away. It did not take them long to decide it was better to surrender than to crawl in the sandbur.
I remember them being brought across the field to the cars that had been brought back to the farmyard. There hands had so many sandburs in them they looked like big bear paws. The agents had burs on their suit nearly up to the waist. They pushed the gangster into the car and then began to pick the sandburs out of their suits.
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