On July 9, 1951, three oddly dressed robbers approached a security truck owned by Brink’s while it was parked at the Bowman Dairy Company near Goose Island. The only thing standing between the shotgun-wielding criminals and the cash in the armored car was Julius Blanchart, a Brink’s security guard, and his two partners, Emmett Ebert and Theodore Kobylinski.
A shootout and a scuffle ensued; minutes later, two of the robbers were dead, while the third escaped in a getaway car with a fourth.
Lincoln Park resident Matt Ebert, grandson of Emmett, said his grandfather never talked about this wild story…