The Sudeten German Free Corps ("Sudetendeutsches Freikorps") gained control over police stations in nearby towns Město Albrechtice ("Olbersdorf") and Zlaté Hory ("Zuckmantel"), cutting both main routes from Liptáň with the rest of the Czech inland. Later in the evening, local Freikorps members opened a secret stash of German army rifles and submachine guns that had been previously smuggled across the border and stored within a railway station. Then a mob of 150 - 180 men, most of them armed, proceeded towards the local gendarme station.