People v. Pettijohn

Jesse Pettijohn and Lawrence Madden were found guilty on a charge of entering into a conspiracy to kill and murder William Yoisine on the 1st day of January, 1936, and divers other days and dates up to and including the 1st day of May, 1936, in the city of Detroit. Yoisine at that time was mayor of the village of Ecorse, in which city both defendants resided. It was the claim of plaintiff, as borne out by the testimony, that defendants with one John Bannerman, Dayton Dean, Ervin Lee and Frederick Gulley, and others, were members of a secret society called the Black Legion; that the society…