Captain Will Fritz and the Dallas Mafia

by Jim Gatewood

Overview

Jim Gatewood best selling author and Dallas historian laureate who teaches Dallas History at Richland College, will tell the story from the streets of Dallas of Caption Will Fritz and the Dallas Mafia. Politicians often asked Captain Will Fritz to accept the office of Chief of police. Captain Fritz would always reply, "The Chiefs have a way of getting fired, I believe I'll just stay a captain."

Fritz was born on a ranch in Dublin, Texas and raised on a horse ranch in New Mexico. As a young man he volunteered to join the army under General Perishing's punitive expedition to destroy the bandit Poncho Villa.

Will Fritz arrived in Dallas, in 1921, the same year Al Capone came to Chicago.

Fritz had just been promoted to detective in1925, when Dallas was terrorized by a number of serial killings.

With no clues to work on Fritz decided to canvass all the cleaning establishments in Dallas and found the clue that helped him unravel the case and send the culprits to Huntsville Prison.

Lawmen across the nation regard Captain Fritz as a champion of their profession.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016398228
Publisher:	Mullaney Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/17/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	278
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Jim Gatewood has spent the last eleven years with the Dallas County Assassination Review Board. In his quest he has rediscovered much of the forgotten history of Dallas' most colorful period when crime, law and order, and the emergence of the city's most prominent figures, who would leave their mark upon America's History.

His father was a Chicago stock broker and Jim was born eleven days before the market crash of 1929, Jim made his journey from Chicago to Dallas in a laundry basket in the back seat of a 1929 Hudson. He would spend his entire life in Dallas and, today bears the mark of a great storyteller and historian. He engages his listeners carrying them back in time to long-forgotten places and revealing the secrets hidden away in the dusty attics of time.

Among the many books written about notable figures of Dallas, Texas
you will meet; Benny Binion, Dallas Gambler and Mob boss - Sheriff Bill Decker a Texas legend - J. Frank Norris - Top O' Hill Casino & The Texas Oil Rich - The Ku Klux Klan's stronghold over Dallas - Slats Rodgers and the Love Field Lunatics - Bonnie and Clyde's Baby Daughter - Captain Will Fritz and the Dallas Mafia and learn that the JFK's Assassination Was a Mafia Hit.

You will be there when a young boy named Orville (W.O. Bankston) came to Dallas in an empty box car-cold broke and hungry to become a life long friend of Sheriff bill Decker.

You will meet Harry Weatherford, the best rifle shot in Sheriff Decker's
cadre, who was placed on top of the County Records Building to protect
the motorcade and how he saved Jaclyn Kennedy's life by firing at Lee Harvey Oswald, causing Oswald's third shot to go high completely missing the motorcade striking the curb on Elm Street.

Travel with Jim through the history of Dallas as he preserves the previously unpublished legacy of our city.

To access the web site put Jim Gatewood in your internet search engine then click on the link Dallas history.



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