The Glenndale Seven

The Glenndale Seven thought they planned the perfect crime. They would break into the gold vault at Fort Knox using techniques a court injunction has barred me from describing on a post card, leave with seven hundred gold bars, and lay low at a local church while waiting for a fence to restamp the gold and sell it to buyers waiting in Eastern Europe and Central and South America. One member of the Glenndale seven was a federal agent who used his understanding of FBI investigation procedure to avoid detection, and another member served as custodian for the Greater Life Baptist Church of Glenndale which gave him both 24/7 access to the large building and an thorough understanding of which rooms were never visited, and thus ideal for gold storage. Their plan would have worked flawlessly, but for one thing. God took none too kindly at being made an accomplice in this daring crime. Of course, the age of miracles had long since past, and God, being older and more mature, decided the somewhat subtle approach would be best. He waited patiently for a detective with a fondness for Irish folklore to pass the church, and He set a rainbow in place above the building, knowing the detective would remember that the gold is found at the end of the rainbow.

- Originally mailed to W. Murphree in Rosenburg, Texas