The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History by James Higdon Page B
Authors: James Higdon
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High School," and he was currently under indictment in Washington County for hijacking. The judge set his bond for $8,000, which he could not pay, and so they shipped him to the Louisville jail, where agents from the Department of Justice wanted to question him.
While police cornered Lanham in Lebanon, Jimmie Kirkland and John Dillinger arrived in Chicago, checked into a nice hotel and started spending their loot on new clothes-"gambling and enjoying the gay night life of the city," according to an account in the Enterprise. Kirkland's share of the take was $460; when the police arrested him nine days later on August 17,1933, only thirty-five cents remained in his new suit's pocket. According to the last-minute bulletin that ran in the Enterprise.
According to report received here early last night, Jimmie Kirkland and John Dillinger, alias Clarence Crews, alias Chord Martin, wanted in connection with the hold-up of the People's Bank at Gravel Switch, were taken into custody at East Chicago, Indiana, by authorities there. The men were said to have been taken to Indianapolis, where they are awaiting the arrival of officers from this county to return them here.
However, when Marion County Sheriff G. C. Spalding and his deputy Pete Glasscock returned from Indianapolis, they had only Jimmie Kirkland with them because "Dillinger has been returned to the Michigan City, Indiana, penitentiary from which he had been released on parole," according to the October 6, 1933, edition of the Lebanon Enterprise.
When the grand jury indicted Lanham, Kirkland and Dillinger for the robbery, it also returned indictments against Marion County residents for an assortment of crimes, including storehouse breaking, child desertion, carrying a concealed weapon, shooting with the intent to kill, malicious shooting with the intent to kill, malicious assault, malicious cutting with intent to kill, arson and chicken theft.
The Marion County jury, loath to sentence anyone for any crime, sent both Tidbits Lanham and Jimmie Kirkland to state prison for eight years. John Dillinger, however, remained elusive, as the Lebanon Enterprise kept track of his notoriety:
PAIR TAKEN TO PENITENTIARY
Lanham, Kirkland, Sentenced For Bank Robbery, Begin Eight-year Terms.
Dillinger Is Liberated
While Lanham was standing trial last Thursday evening for his part in the bank banditry, John Dillinger, also indicted on the same charge, was liberated from the jail at Lima, Ohio, by six gunmen who shot and killed Sher f Jesse L. Sarber. Dillinger was never returned here on the Gravel Switch bank robbery indictment but was confined to the Lima, Ohio, bastile [sic] following his arrest some time ago in East Chicago, Ind. He had been wanted in Ohio as well as several other States for bank robbery and a number of other criminal acts.
Both Lanham and Kirkland in their testimony in this city denied that Dillinger was their confederate in the Gravel Switch hold-up when $1,235.55 was taken.
Meanwhile, as the readers of the Lebanon Enterprise followed the weekly installments of the John Dillinger story, another historic narrative came to a close. On September 8, 1933, the Enterprise reported that the General Assembly in the state capital of Frankfort passed a bill by a vote of eighty-one to ten to "repeal ... the Eighteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution," also known as Prohibition.' he editor of the newspaper made clear that "national repeal is not sufficient" to allow Kentucky's own distilleries to resume operation, pointing out that an amendment to the state constitution would also have to be passed.
Nevertheless, construction and repairs to old distilleries in the area started up, first in neighboring Bardstown, then in Lebanon, as reported by this Enterprise headline:
DISTILLERY IS TO BE REBUILT
J. A. Wathen And St. Louis Men Buy Site Near Town For New Plant
Work To Start Soon
"The sale," the story tells its readers on November 3, 1933, "includes about five
While police cornered Lanham in Lebanon, Jimmie Kirkland and John Dillinger arrived in Chicago, checked into a nice hotel and started spending their loot on new clothes-"gambling and enjoying the gay night life of the city," according to an account in the Enterprise. Kirkland's share of the take was $460; when the police arrested him nine days later on August 17,1933, only thirty-five cents remained in his new suit's pocket. According to the last-minute bulletin that ran in the Enterprise.
According to report received here early last night, Jimmie Kirkland and John Dillinger, alias Clarence Crews, alias Chord Martin, wanted in connection with the hold-up of the People's Bank at Gravel Switch, were taken into custody at East Chicago, Indiana, by authorities there. The men were said to have been taken to Indianapolis, where they are awaiting the arrival of officers from this county to return them here.
However, when Marion County Sheriff G. C. Spalding and his deputy Pete Glasscock returned from Indianapolis, they had only Jimmie Kirkland with them because "Dillinger has been returned to the Michigan City, Indiana, penitentiary from which he had been released on parole," according to the October 6, 1933, edition of the Lebanon Enterprise.
When the grand jury indicted Lanham, Kirkland and Dillinger for the robbery, it also returned indictments against Marion County residents for an assortment of crimes, including storehouse breaking, child desertion, carrying a concealed weapon, shooting with the intent to kill, malicious shooting with the intent to kill, malicious assault, malicious cutting with intent to kill, arson and chicken theft.
The Marion County jury, loath to sentence anyone for any crime, sent both Tidbits Lanham and Jimmie Kirkland to state prison for eight years. John Dillinger, however, remained elusive, as the Lebanon Enterprise kept track of his notoriety:
PAIR TAKEN TO PENITENTIARY
Lanham, Kirkland, Sentenced For Bank Robbery, Begin Eight-year Terms.
Dillinger Is Liberated
While Lanham was standing trial last Thursday evening for his part in the bank banditry, John Dillinger, also indicted on the same charge, was liberated from the jail at Lima, Ohio, by six gunmen who shot and killed Sher f Jesse L. Sarber. Dillinger was never returned here on the Gravel Switch bank robbery indictment but was confined to the Lima, Ohio, bastile [sic] following his arrest some time ago in East Chicago, Ind. He had been wanted in Ohio as well as several other States for bank robbery and a number of other criminal acts.
Both Lanham and Kirkland in their testimony in this city denied that Dillinger was their confederate in the Gravel Switch hold-up when $1,235.55 was taken.
Meanwhile, as the readers of the Lebanon Enterprise followed the weekly installments of the John Dillinger story, another historic narrative came to a close. On September 8, 1933, the Enterprise reported that the General Assembly in the state capital of Frankfort passed a bill by a vote of eighty-one to ten to "repeal ... the Eighteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution," also known as Prohibition.' he editor of the newspaper made clear that "national repeal is not sufficient" to allow Kentucky's own distilleries to resume operation, pointing out that an amendment to the state constitution would also have to be passed.
Nevertheless, construction and repairs to old distilleries in the area started up, first in neighboring Bardstown, then in Lebanon, as reported by this Enterprise headline:
DISTILLERY IS TO BE REBUILT
J. A. Wathen And St. Louis Men Buy Site Near Town For New Plant
Work To Start Soon
"The sale," the story tells its readers on November 3, 1933, "includes about five
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