EVT 142P R: I: R: 11: This was back when? R! nJ. back in 1948, '49. I: Did they give you your uniforms~ R: 11: R: I: R: I: R: I: R:
EVT 14~ seven years...maybe not that long...but, one night there was a roop of boy scouts in town <strong>and</strong> they were gonna shack up or camp out n the school grounds <strong>and</strong> the night police told them it was a little c 01 that night that if they wanted to sleep over to City Hall, they'd make room over there in the back room for them. We have a back room there back of the fire trucks there. 80, the boys slept there hat night. So, that night during...through the night there, the po ice officers on duty (1) <strong>and</strong> (?) were on duty that night, <strong>and</strong> they een guys up by the Michigan House on the street <strong>and</strong> they had some 0 en containers of beer, so they told them they says, "Hey! Get bac inside with your beer.. .get rid of it". So, the boys aust hav t a grudge against them, so after later on when (?) was gone home d (?) was on a separate call over in Rambletown happened out on emergency case over there <strong>and</strong> when he came back he thought he h ard some noise inside the police station. And our door going into he station had a mail slot on it <strong>and</strong> we had a habit of wheneTer we d hear someone in there, we'd just raise the mail slot <strong>and</strong> we'd 1 ok right in there <strong>and</strong> see what was cookin in our office. So, Fred heard that noise that night in the office so he just opened the mail slot <strong>and</strong> he peeked in there <strong>and</strong> he seen attire in there with a ire axe <strong>and</strong> another one there with two guns in his h<strong>and</strong> facing the oor, so he moved back slowly. And just when he moved back they sta ed firing right through the door; <strong>and</strong> Fred moved back <strong>and</strong> he radio d the State Police <strong>and</strong> that <strong>and</strong> the lads run up the alley. And the b st part of it was, that night Fred asked.e could he use my small. So, I told him he could use my small gun, but he put it in his ocker he was ready to go home just berore that <strong>and</strong> he was without a out there when these guys had broke into our lockers <strong>and</strong> they got a lour guns which was about five of 'em. I think we had two thirty-ei t... three thirty-eights, one snub-nosed (?) <strong>and</strong> two forty-rives. An they cleaned out our ammunition <strong>and</strong> they had a little war of the r own that night. They went from there... they run up the alley, a ross the railroad track <strong>and</strong> they pounded on a few doors there trying 0 get people to wake up <strong>and</strong> get their cars...to use their cars. e party they went they asked them for the car keys over there acro s the tracks, I guess one of 'em, he said ! "Get out of here, you a nIt gettin my car keys." So, they took the r guns <strong>and</strong> they broke a ew windows on his door so he called the police. So when the police found out they were in that area, then pretty soon they were in another...Schultz's over there near the (?) <strong>and</strong> they went in the <strong>and</strong> they dem<strong>and</strong>ed the keys <strong>and</strong> the party that was there, he was ome from Pennsylvania <strong>and</strong> he had a Lincoln Continental parked out th re in the yard, <strong>and</strong> they wanted the keys for that Continental <strong>and</strong> h thoUSht they were some rriends of his that come over <strong>and</strong> were ju kidding about "How about the keys?" "Sure...sure" he said, "1'1 give you the keys." And they says, mwe mean business". And th y parted a shot through his door <strong>and</strong> up into his ceiling in the kitchen <strong>and</strong> he said, "You can have the keys, you can have anythi g you want". So, when he seen that <strong>and</strong> his brother-tn-law wasaee ing out in a tent with the children out there, his brother-tn-law wa sleeptng out in the tent <strong>and</strong> he jumped one of these guys. But Mr. Schultz said, "Turn 'em loose, we don't want no one to get s ot around here".. .because the other guy had the gun on him already, you know. So, they took off...they took off down the railroad track <strong>and</strong>
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