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Gunn, Raymond Lynching in Maryville, Missouri, 1930Entry/Object ID
9999.BHF.275Scope and Content
Gunn, Raymond
St. Joseph Gazette December 19, 1930 Negro confesses murder of girl teacher. Raymond Gunn 26 confessed to murder of Miss Velma Colter 19 year old teacher near Maryville, Missouri. He was brought to Central Police Station in St. Joseph.
The Maryville Daily Forum December 19, 1930 has a picture of Raymond Gunn. He confessed at the office of P. R. Jones, Jr. prosecuting attorney. The teacher taught at Garrett one-room school southwest of Maryville. Gunn was sent to prison in 1925 for attempted assault of a Mound city girl.
The Maryville Daily Forum December 18, 1930 is a picture of the interior view of school where Miss Colter met her death.
The Maryville Daily Forum, December 17, 1930 has a picture of the teacher who was slain. The interior of school house gives evidence of vain struggle.
The Maryville Daily Forum December 22, 1930 has story of slayer taken to Jeff City Jail after mob threat.
The Maryville Daily Forum January 14, 1931. Sheriff refused offer of Militia lawyer declares. A staff correspondent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in a dispatch today from Maryville, Missouri said he had been told that Sheriff Harve England refused the formal tender of services of the National Guard as a precautionary measure last Sunday, the day before a mob took Raymond Gunn Negro prisoner from him and burned him to death.
There is a newspaper picture of the school house, where Miss Velma Colter taught, burning. Spectators saw Gunn chained to the roof and the torch applied.
There is a photo copy of chapter 20 from a book. The title is Chained to Ridge-Pole and Burned, Maryville, Nodaway County, Missouri in this folder.Collection
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