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| | Lynching at Corunna, Michigan |
 | | It all started on New Year's Day, 1893, when a New Haven, Michigan (about 24 miles north of Detroit) resident, William Sullivan, 27, was accused of axeing to death, Layton Leech, a Durand, Michigan farmer. |
 | | Word of his capture reached Durand and 200 men, seeking vengeance, boarded a train for Detroit, and surrounded police headquarters, demanding that the prisoner be turned over to them. |
 | | It was reported that visitors came from all parts of the state and that the street car was so full that "some men and boys had to sit on the top of the cars." Court records indicated the cause of Sullivan's death as "compulsory suicide". |
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