bad men and law men
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 6:14 am
what bad men where known to have used the rem. 8/81? and what law men used it other than frank hamer? dose anyone have photos they could show?
This is taken from an interview...
"In the early evening hours of February 24th 1935, Raymond Hamilton and Ralph Fults were driving
through Fult's hometown of Anna Texas, in a stolen grey 1935 Ford V8. They had a planned rendezvous
with a couple of bootleggers, to pick up some guns belonging to Fults. They took the Weston cut off,
a seldom traveled road that traverses the Trinity River, just north of McKinney, Texas. A freezing
rain had begun to fall when they reached the culvert where the two bootleggers were supposed to meet
up with them. When he didn't see them waiting at the planned meeting place, Fults had become suspicious.
Fults then told Hamilton that they had better leave, as something didn't seem right!
Suddenly, a burst of gunfire had erupted from both sides of the darkened culvert. Hamilton floored
it in an attempt to escape the volley of bullets, which had now begun to riddle their car to pieces.
The car was being reduced to rubble under the heavy blows delivered by the lawmen's powerful barrage
of gunfire. Raymond had sustained a head wound, but was able to keep going. Fults had begun to fire
back at the posse with his Browning automatic rifle, through the rear window which had been blown away.
The freezing rain was now entering the car by way of the openings left by the windows which were now
blown away by the gun blasts. Eventually, they made it far enough away, to escape the wrath of the
attacking lawmen. It had been a "set up", but the outlaw pair managed to escape.
*******Photo below shows Johnny Record, Precinct No. 1 Constable of McKinney TX,
who organized the ambush attempt of Raymond Hamilton and Ralph Fults.
He poses in front of Hamilton's abandoned getaway car, with a Browning
automatic rifle (actually a Remington Model 8!) which was used in the attack on the outlaws. **********