People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1893 — LYNCHING IN MICHIGAN. [ARTICLE]

LYNCHING IN MICHIGAN.

Mob Hang* William Sullivan, tha Confessed Slayer of Leetch. Corunna, Mich., May 2*.— William Sullivan, the farm hand who brutally murdered his employer, Layton Leetch, and murderously assaulted the latter’s wife near Durand last January, was taken from jail by an immense mob at 9:20 o'clock Tuesday evening and lynched. Sullivan was captured in Detroit Sunday and was brought here under guard and placed in jail. When arraigned Tuesday on the charge of murder Sullivan acknowledged that he was the man wanted. At 8 o’clock p. m. more than 2,000 infuriated citizens congregated around the jail with the intention of taking justice into their own hands. They secured the prisoner and strung him up, afterwards shooting his body full of holes.