The whole mess started when a pair of Fayetteville boys, bored on Friday afternoon, ran away from home carrying $40 and a sleeping bag, tearing off on bicycles in search of Huck Finn adventure.
On their first stop, they pedaled up to a Schlitz beer plant, where they discovered a worker loading empty bottles onto a boxcar. Flush with boyish mischief, they hid their bikes in the woods.
Details here get murky, but according to newspaper accounts at the time, the pair either ducked into the boxcar with plans to build a fort or deliberately hid behind the bottles, overhearing word that the train was bound for a mysterious new land called Milwaukee…