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Also by the author One of Ours: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing Copyright © 2009 by The Curators of the University of Missouri University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri 65201 Printed and bound in the United States of America All rights reserved 5 4 3 2 1 13 12 11 10 09 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Serrano, Richard A. My grandfather’s prison : a story of death and deceit in 1940s Kansas City / Richard A. Serrano. p. cm. Summary: “Author discovers the fate of the grandfather he never knew, who had abruptly abandoned his family during the Great Depression, become a prisoner to alcohol and skid row, and, entangled in the corrupt Pendergast era of Kansas City, Missouri, had finally been murdered at the old Kansas City Municipal Farm”— Provided by publisher. ISBN 978-0-8262-1864-3 (alk. paper) 1. Lyons, James P., 1908-1948. 2. Murder—Missouri—Kansas City. 3. Murder victims—Missouri—Kansas City. 4. Murder investigation —Missouri—Kansas City. 5. Alcoholics—Missouri—Kansas City—Biography. 6. Political corruption—Missouri—Kansas City— History—20th century. 7. Kansas City (Mo.)—Politics and government . 8. Kansas City (Mo.)—Biography. I. Title. HV6534.K2S44 2009 364.152’3092—dc22 2009013878 ∞™ This paper meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48, 1984. Designer & Typesetter: Aaron Lueders Printer and binder: Thomson–Shore, Inc. Typefaces: Palatino, Cargo D, Stone Sans ITC To my mother, Mary Elizabeth Lyons Serrano ...