Wicked Ypsilanti

by James Thomas Mann

Overview

People know Ypsilanti as a warm and friendly family city, but local historian James Thomas Mann reveals an unsavory history behind the pleasant new veneer. An offshoot of the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang called God's Children, also known as the Huns of Detroit," once ran armed and naked through the streets. A lady managed to cheat death from a bullet, thanks to her steel corset. And a crooked cop managed to collect paychecks under different names multiple times. Discover these and more fascinatingly sordid stories buried in this quiet community's seemingly innocent past."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626193352
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	02/25/2014
Series:	Wicked
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

James Thomas Mann was born in Detroit and moved to Ypsilanti in 1977. Mann wrote a weekly column on local history for the Ypsilanti Courier and Ann Arbor News. A graduate of Eastern Michigan University, Mann is the author of seven published books on local history.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

1 First Murder 9

2 Dead Man Alive 13

3 Temperance War of 1873 17

4 Body in the Cistern 33

5 A Serenade for Editor Pattison 39

6 Ypsilanti Excited 43

7 A Woman Saved by Her Corset 49

8 Deaths of Cox and Camp 53

9 Bad Start to 1909 61

10 A Crime of Sunday Baseball 65

11 Throwing Eggs at the "Escaped Nun" 71

12 Smoking Scandal at the Normal 77

13 Fracas at the Fountain 93

14 Chief Connors Goes to Jail 101

15 A Roar in Depot Town: God's Children 113

Bibliography 117

About the Author 125