A True Story Better Than Fiction
The cliché tells us that “truth is often stranger than fiction.” In the case of the Becker Post Office robbery of 1931, the truth reads like fiction. Here is a story of a woman betrayed and a group of cold hearted men plotting for the promise of easy money. The story begins with Mr. Berga Glisson. A resident of St. Cloud, in 1931 he had been spending time with the post mistress of Becker, Miss Gertrude Dyson. For two years the couple had been together. In December 1931, according to the Sherburne County Star News Glisson and three cohorts schemed to rob the safe of the Becker Post Office. Glisson’s part in the crime was to duplicate a house key to the residential portion of the Post Office and deliver it to another of his co-conspirators. The evening of December 6, 1931, using the key provided by Glisson, three men burst into the home of Miss Dyson. They took Dyson and Glisson hostage and forced the postmistress to o...