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Negro Gunn Burned to Death by Mob on Roof of Victim's Schoolhouse, News-Press, January 12, 1931Entry/Object ID
2009.3.905Scope and Content
Negro Gunn Burned to Death by Mob on Roof of Victim's Schoolhouse, News-Press, January 12, 1931. News article about "lynching" in Maryville, Missouri.
Raymond Gunn, age 27, had confessed to the murder of Velma Coulter, a school teacher at Garnett school in Nodaway County. Gunn had been held in Kansas City for safekeeping, but was returned to Maryville by car, handcuffed to the sheriff., who had declined help from the National Guard. As the car approached the courthouse door, the mob seized Gunn, separated him from the sheriff, dragged him to the top of the school house, where they chained him to the ridgepole and set the school house a fire.Collection
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Lynchings in Northwest Missouri, Black History, Nodaway County, Missouri, Maryville, MissouriRelationships
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Raymond Gunn