Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
I was just up to Wisconsin to visit family. We stayed at the old farm house that my aunt and uncle now reside. They are Nancy and Jerry Mankowski. My grandparents were dairy farmers there. You can read related posts called, "The escape from the Mob," and "FBI crackdown," "The Pistol."
My grandfather, Ed Mankowski, was a booze runner for the Capone crime family in Chicago. He ran with his brother, Frank Mankowski. Frank was also an enforcer for the Capone's.
Other teams would smuggle the booze out of Canada, and bring it down to the north side of Chicago. The smugglers would deposit the booze at restaurants though out north Chicago, for safe keeping.
Ed and Frank would drive a truck to one of the restaurants, park and walk in and drink coffee and pie Sometime during the evening, the manager would nod at them. That meant that their truck was loaded and ready to roll!
Ed did the driving and Frank was there with a tommy gun! That's how he got the nickname of "Tommy Gun Frank!". They would transport the booze to Capone warehouses on the south side of Chicago. Other teams would then deliver it to the many secret casinos and speakeasy's on Chicago's south side.
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