Negro Gunn Burned to Death By Mob, St. Joseph News-Press, January 1931
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Negro Gunn Burned to Death By Mob, St. Joseph News-Press, January 1931
Negro Gunn burned to death by MOB on roof of victim's school house as mob was preparing to burn slayer of Velma Colter.
The Newspress sensing the spirit of the populace in Nodaway County sent its staff photographer in Maryville. The picture shows the mob getting ready to burn Raymond Gunn, Negro slayer of Velma Colter, on the roof of Garrett school house where the teacher was murdered, December 16. The picture shows the school and the mob just before the Negro was taken to the roof, where he was chained and the building was set afire.
Lynching is denounced. Maryville paper calls it hideous blot on Nodaway County.
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