CHAPTER FOURTEENBy the summer of 1974, Jesse was becoming well known as the counterculture reporter at the Journal Gazette. So well known that he received an anonymous tip one afternoon that m*******a plants were growing in plain view near the sheriff’s entrance to the Allen County Courthouse.
He was working on a story about the teachers’ union getting ready to strike, but cannabis growing at the courthouse was too good to pass up. Once he told his city editor about the tip, Weatherly pointed him out the door of the newsroom. “Get on that right away while we’ve still got light. And take John with you. I want photos on this one.”
John had a dry sense of humor, bordering on sarcastic. The thought of photographing m*******a made him chuckle as they drove to the courthouse, even though it wa
