Negro Gunn Burned to Death By Mob on Top of Victim's Schoolhouse, St. Joseph Gazette, January 12, 1931
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AM9999.582.13076
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Negro Gunn Burned to Death By Mob on Top of Victim's Schoolhouse St. Joseph Gazette, January 12, 1931
--Raymond Gunn Taken by Force by infuriated Mob This Morning While Being Escorted by Deputy Sheriff to Courthouse for Arraignment for Murder of Miss Velma Colter
--National Guard Mobilized But Fails to Take Action
--Large Throng Present Around County Jail in Maryville Before Daybreak Today and by 8 0clock More Than 1,500 Men Milling About--Group of fifty on Foot Throws Rope Around Slayer and Starts for School House, Several Hundred Others Following in Motor Cars.
--Picture of Gunn as he looked in St. Joseph Jail
--Picture of Garrett School
--Picture of interior of Garrett School
--Picture of Velma Colter
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Raymond Gunn Lynching, Maryville, Missouri Lynching, 1931, Black History
