Word: ypsilanti
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...Other societies with more or less scientific intention met separately at Tulsa, Rochester, N. Y., Andover, Mass., New Haven, Manhattan, Washington, Baltimore, Detroit. Ypsilanti, Mich., Minneapolis...
...straw-hatted young man with a cigaret hanging from his mouth smirking at Mr. and Mrs. Rudolf Gold, interviewing them about their young daughter Vivian and their nephew Harry Lore who had just been murdered and burned with another young couple by three fiends (one a big Negro) in Ypsilanti, Mich. (TIME...
Just before the next dawn a farmer, looking out of his window some ten miles from Ypsilanti, beheld a bright light against the hooded sky. Hurrying across fields to a lonely road he found a car in flames. In the car were the incinerated bodies of Thomas Wheatley, Harry Lore, Vivian Gold, Anna May Harrison. On the running board, fenders, bumpers of the car were splashes of blood. A bloody wrench lay in the road. Officers who removed the bodies after the fire had died found two bullet holes in Lore, discovered the skulls of the other three had been...
With Frank Oliver, a 19-year-old friend of Smith's, they had held up the car, robbed its occupants. When young Wheatley recognized Smith they had killed all four, driven into Ypsilanti with the bodies to get gasoline. Then they had taken the bodies out on the lonely road, soaked them with the gasoline, set fire to them. Oliver said Blackstone had raped Miss Harrison before the murders...
...police brought in Oliver and wrung a confession from him, the first of four lynching attempts occurred. Escaping the mob at Ypsilanti, the three were taken to the Ann Arbor jail, where a fresh mob gathered, tore at the prisoners' clothes, clawed their faces, cried for their blood. Reinforced by carloads of men from Ypsilanti, the crowd surged around the insecure jail, shouting: ''Lynch them! Burn them!" The three cowering men were rushed into automobiles and whisked to the court house where Judge George W. Sample was waiting. Said Judge Sample: "I feel like...