Jim Kiritsis, Tony's brother had a fuel delivery business out toward Trevlac and delivered gas and diesel to the farm when I was a kid.Ky. film incentives support Nicholas Cage movie “Dead Man’s Wire”
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You know there is a reason I never heard his name before, let’s see….. He never tied a gun to someones head.
My dad had a lot of dealings with Tony. Dad worked for the Marion County Health department and for awhile Tony refused to let DPW in to the trailer park he owned to pick up trash. When Tony was going to court after the hostage incident, Dad happened to be on the same elevator with him and Tony reached up and tapped him on the shoulder and said hello.
Don’t know when he was released but a bunch of us (construction workers) saw him in his cell at the Isaac Ray wing at Logansport State hospital while we were renovating it some years back. They kept him pretty well locked down. That was the max security wing for the nut bags at the time.
That's something........my dad was pretty good friends with Tony as well. He use to hang out in Avon and play checkers with all the guys at Dick Norths Barber shop. I met a lot of characters at that barber shop.....my dad would go hang out there a lot and I was always with my dad. My dad use to talk about how smart Tony was.......guess he was a pretty sharp fellow, he just didn't like getting jacked around. To this day.....I figure that guy very well might have deserved to have that gun strapped around his neck.
Yeah, I agree really. I probably shouldn't have said that, especially since I am a tad biased and have never even read the trial transcripts (if they exist). Regardless of who was right and who was wrong......Tony was wrong for doing that. I imagine in hindsight, Halls wish they would have worked with Tony and Tony wishes he would have been more reasonable...but hindsight is always 20/20. In the end, it really destroyed all their lives. Richard was changed after that, lost his wife and family, lost his business and from all accounts was never the same mentally. And Tony sat in jail, lost the land and never really recovered anything from it either...he died a broken "crazy" guy.
I think it is a strip mall with Payless Liquor store, gas station and 8 Seconds Saloon, credit union......and a closed Marsh Supermarket that was partially used by Brothers Wholesale (may still be there).
Remember watching this whole thing go down as a kid, had no idea that my bowling alley (Lynhurst Bowl, now 8 Sec) was part of the property in dispute. Used to go to that Marsh and the next door Hooks with my grandfather all the time growing up, too. Grew up about 2 minutes away.
So was the bowling alley there before the Marsh? You happen to remember about what year the Marsh was built?
Marsh was at that location as long as I can remember, and I was born in '66. Used to be one of the old fashioned looking ones (believe it had the Marsh Foodliner moniker in my earliest years, if I recall correctly), then was upgraded with the triangular look mid-late 80's, I believe. Lived with my grandparents just off Lynhurst and would go with him to the store then the United gas station in front of there to get Ethyl and cigarettes afterward when I was really little.
