Jim Gatewood, best selling author and Dallas historian laureate who teaches Dallas History at Richland College, will tell the story from the streets of Dallas of Caption Will Fritz and the Dallas Mafia. Politicians often asked Captain Will Fritz to accept the office of Chief of police. Captain Fritz would always reply, "The Chiefs have a way of getting fired, I believe I'll just stay a captain." Fritz was born on a ranch in Dublin, Texas and raised on a horse ranch in New Mexico. As a young man he volunteered to join the army under General Perishing's punitive expedition to destroy the bandit Poncho Villa. Will Fritz arrived in Dallas, in 1921, the same year Al Capone came to Chicago. Fritz had just been promoted to detective in1925, when Dallas was terrorized by a number of serial killings. With no clues to work on Fritz decided to canvass all the cleaning establishments in Dallas and found the clue that helped him unravel the case and send the culprits to Huntsville Prison. Lawmen across the nation regard Captain Fritz as a champion of their profession.