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65-550: Prairie Park is an extinct hamlet in Nodaway County , Missouri , in the United States . It was situated one mile south of Barnard and its post office moved to Barnard. Nodaway County, Missouri Nodaway County is a county located in the northwest part of Missouri . As of the 2020 census , the population was 21,241. Its county seat is Maryville . The county was organized February 14, 1845, and

130-497: A Facebook post, where Mr. Rouch threatened, “By October, I’ll be wanting to get up to the top of the bell tower with a high-powered rifle, with a good scope and probably a Gatling gun as well." University Police and the Nodaway County Sheriff's Department determined the comment was made in jest, but discovered a sophisticated marijuana growing operation in the process of searching Mr. Rouch’s house, after Rouch made

195-525: A Pottawatomie name for "placid," a Dakota Sioux name for "crossed without canoe," and various tribes names for "snake." Nodaway County was on the frontier in its earliest days and has a long history of violence. The first execution in Nodaway County occurred in the county seat of Maryville on July 22, 1881. Two brothers, Albert P. and Charles E. Talbott, were hanged after being convicted of murdering their own father, Dr. Perry H. Talbott. Dr. Talbott,

260-573: A house on the east side of town. Gardner was taken from the house, beaten, then dragged to a field 1-2 blocks away, where he was left to die. Roming and Rosencrans were found guilty and both sentenced to seven years in prison for manslaughter. On December 3, 2007, Jorge Saavedra Pere, of Saint Joseph , fatally shot his roommate, Jamie Zamudio-Hernandez, in the kitchen of the Mandarin Restaurant in Maryville, where they both worked, over

325-675: A household in the county was $ 31,781, and the median income for a family was $ 42,203. Males had a median income of $ 28,388 versus $ 21,267 for females. The per capita income for the county was $ 15,384. About 8.30% of families and 16.50% of the population were below the poverty line , including 11.20% of those under age 18 and 13.30% of those age 65 or over. Nodaway County is served by two airports. Northwest Missouri Regional Airport and Rankin Airport , both just outside of Maryville. Both airports are for general aviation with no commercial service. The four licensed broadcast stations originating in

390-424: A living as a hunter. On December 16, 1930, a 20-year-old teacher, Velma Colter, daughter of a local farmer, was murdered in the one-room Garrett schoolhouse, ( 40°19′56.22″N 94°54′40.05″W  /  40.3322833°N 94.9111250°W  / 40.3322833; -94.9111250 ) a mile southwest of Maryville. When she failed to return home, her parents went to the school. They found her partly undressed body in

455-454: A local bar as Smith exited the establishment. Mooney and Overlin attacked and beat him, knocking him to the sidewalk. Smith fell, struck his head on the pavement, and was knocked unconscious, causing him to stop breathing. Maryville Public Safety Officers were on scene within seconds of the altercation and immediately began CPR, but were unable to revive him. Smith was pronounced dead at 2:21 a.m. Mooney and Overlin were picked up moments after

520-438: A local physician, newspaper editor, and state legislator, died on September 18, 1880, at his home northwest of Arkoe, a town he co-founded. He was found shot in his home and died of his injuries that evening, blaming his political enemies with his dying breath. Nevertheless, his sons were charged with the crime. Despite their insistence of innocence, the jury found them guilty and the judge sentenced them to death. Their tombstone in

585-516: A lynching began immediately after Gunn was taken into custody, and crowds began to assemble in Maryville. Gunn was transferred for safety to the Buchanan County, Missouri jail, 45 miles south in St. Joseph, Missouri . Crowds formed there as well, and the sheriff ordered a truck mounted with a machine gun to be backed to the door. The gunner appeared to aim the weapon at the crowd, though he said he

650-414: A lynching. Raymond Gunn was the oldest of the eight children of Michael and Maymie Gunn, a farming family in Maryville. In the 1920 census, the family is described as mulatto. In the 1930 census, Raymond Gunn is described as laborer and widower. In September 1925, Gunn was convicted of the attempted rape of a student at what is now Northwest Missouri State University , after accosting the young woman on

715-459: A mile east of Hopkins , when the driver over-corrected after losing control of his pick-up, causing it to flip over several times, then catch fire in a field. The victims were 21-year-old Joshua Bix and 22-year-old Benjamin McIntyre, both of Hopkins, Missouri, and 18-year-old Chrystal Olerich of Lake View, Iowa . All three were thrown from the pickup, and none were wearing seatbelts. The driver of

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780-446: A money dispute. Saavedra fled the scene in a stolen car and was found several days later by authorities near Mankato, Minnesota , on foot after the vehicle he stole ran out of gas. Saavedra was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in a Nodaway County court and sentenced to 12 years in a Missouri prison. On October 29, 2011, three people were killed and four people were injured in a motor vehicle accident on Missouri Highway 246 , half

845-424: A pool of blood inside the school; a bloody footprint left by her killer was on the floor. Because of his earlier conviction, Raymond Gunn was immediately suspected. A farmer reported he had seen a black man near the school. The sheriff arrested several black men matching the description, before he found Gunn on December 18. Gunn had blood stains on his shirt (he claimed it was rabbit blood), and his footprint matched

910-493: A priest at Conception Seminary College , before giving it up for law. The Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration convent in neighboring Clyde has 550 relics of saints, the largest collection in the nation. Located in Tornado Alley , many tornadoes have struck the county, including an F4 tornado on March 29, 1979, which obliterated the town of Braddyville, Iowa across the county line. Tornadoes have damaged two of

975-412: A projected release date of June 21, 2016. In the fall of 1994, a local farmer, William Taylor, murdered his wife Debra, by using the family's cat to lure her underneath a combine and causing the combine to roll over her. Taylor told authorities that he had killed the cat with a hammer and threw it under the combine, to lure his wife under the machine. Once she was under the combine attempting to retrieve

1040-420: A ridge pole. Gunn and the building were then doused with gasoline. The mob leader, identified only as the "man in a red coat", threw a lighted piece of paper into the building. Gunn screamed but once and appeared lifeless in 11 minutes. A reporter for the St. Joseph Gazette gave the following gruesome description: The building's roof collapsed within 16 minutes. Burnt fragments of the schoolhouse were taken by

1105-413: A rural lane outside of Maryville. The student claimed that Gunn stuck his thumbs into her mouth to keep her from screaming. Gunn never confessed to the crime, and he claimed to have been beaten while in custody. He was released on January 28, 1928. Following his release, Gunn married a local woman and moved with her to Omaha . However, his wife died of pneumonia, and he returned to Maryville, where he made

1170-607: A statement that there "was a bomb in a brief case at his house." Rouch was charged with one count of felony production of a controlled substance, and one count of felony possession of a controlled substance. The university placed Rouch on administrative leave, pending the outcome of an internal investigation. Other professors will assume Rouch’s teaching duties in the interim. Rouch appeared in Nodaway County Circuit Court for his initial arraignment October 8, 2013. He will return to court November 12, 2013. However,

1235-693: A student at Northwest Missouri State, and a friend of his since high school at Maryville . Jones sexually assaulted her, killed her by strangulation and stomping/kicking her, then dumped her body in the 102 River east of Maryville, near the Maryville City Dog Pound, where it was recovered days later downstream by the Missouri State Water Patrol (now part of the Missouri State Highway Patrol ). Before Jones could go to trial, he hanged himself in

1300-520: Is home to Northwest Missouri State University . The university's grounds were a re-creation of the landscape of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair . In 1993, Northwest was designated by the Missouri State Legislature as the official Missouri Arboretum. ESPN has carried the university's participation in five national championship football games, three of which they won. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas studied to become

1365-468: Is land and 0.9 square miles (2.3 km ) (0.1%) is water. It is the fifth-largest county in Missouri by area. Iowa forms the northern border of Nodaway County. Nodaway County consists of undulating hills with three notable rivers. The eponymous Nodaway River partitions the western half of the county and forms part of its southwestern border with Holt County. The One Hundred and Two River divides

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1430-589: Is located southwest of Maryville and north of Graham . As of the census of 2000, there were 21,912 people, 8,138 households, and 4,817 families residing in the county. The population density was 25 people per square mile (9.7 people/km ). There were 8,909 housing units at an average density of 10 units per square mile (3.9/km ). The racial makeup of the county was 96.58% White , 1.35% Black or African American , 0.23% Native American , 0.87% Asian , 0.02% Pacific Islander , 0.21% from other races , and 0.74% from two or more races. Approximately 0.71% of

1495-487: Is named for the Nodaway River . It is the largest county by area added to Missouri in the 1836 Platte Purchase and the fifth-largest county by area in Missouri. Nodaway County comprises the Maryville, MO Micropolitan Statistical Area . The county has a rich agricultural history. It is the home of trainers Ben Jones and Jimmy Jones, whose horses won six Kentucky Derby races and two Triple Crowns. The county

1560-567: The Missouri Senate and is currently represented by Dan Hegeman (R- Cosby ). All of Nodaway County is included in Missouri’s 6th Congressional District and is currently represented by Sam Graves (R- Tarkio ) in the U.S. House of Representatives . 40°22′N 94°53′W  /  40.36°N 94.88°W  / 40.36; -94.88 Raymond Gunn The case received massive national publicity because it occurred outside

1625-461: The Garrett schoolhouse. Gunn's ears and nose were bleeding from being beaten on the way. The schoolhouse was emptied and all furniture placed on the lawn. The mob was estimated to have grown to between 2,000 and 4,000. Gunn was taken inside the schoolhouse, where he is reported to have confessed his guilt again, claiming he had an accomplice named "Shike" Smith. Gunn was moved to the roof and tied to

1690-493: The National Guard could only be deployed at the written request of the sheriff, which was never made. Sheriff Harvey England later claimed he did not call up the guardsmen because he did not want them injured. By this point a large crowd occupied the Maryville square, between the jail block to the northeast and the Nodaway County, Missouri courthouse. The sheriff was transporting Gunn by car, and he drove directly into

1755-599: The Nodaway County Jail. On October 16, 2000, Greg N. Dragoo beat and dragged his girlfriend, Wendy Gillenwater, down several country roads outside of Skidmore, causing her to die. Gillenwater's body was found outside her Skidmore home. Dragoo was charged with murder and given a life sentence by a Nodaway County judge. Dragoo is currently incarcerated in the Jefferson City Correctional Center. On April 11, 2001, Branson Perry

1820-715: The Southern "lynch belt," because of its brazen and planned nature, and because the county sheriff did not activate the Missouri National Guard troops that had been specifically deployed to prevent the lynching . The case was frequently invoked in the unsuccessful attempt to pass the Wagner-Costigan Act during the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt , which would have made it a federal crime for law enforcement officials to refuse to try to prevent

1885-554: The altercation by other Maryville Public Safety Officers and taken into custody, and booked into the Nodaway County Jail. They were both charged with second-degree murder and first-degree assault On September 3, 2013, Mooney pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Atchison County Circuit Court for his role in the death. On September 4, 2013, in the Circuit Court of Buchanan County , Overlin

1950-495: The brutal incident, Maryville residents heard rumors that African Americans from Kansas City were coming to attack the city in retaliation. Townsmen reportedly set up machine gun nests on Main Street. The Gunn family's home was also burned. The 1930 census showed 90 African Americans living in Maryville, with 35 enrolled in the town's school. By 1931, the number of African Americans had dropped to six, and eventually almost all left

2015-473: The cat, he used twine to pull a lever on the combine, to cause it to roll over his wife when she tried to retrieve it. After he ran over her, he stated that he had moved the combine back from his wife's body, hid the twine and called 9-1-1, stating that there had been an accident at his farm south of Maryville. Taylor was convicted of murder and received a 25-year sentence. In the spring of 1995, Dennis Lee Jones, of Maryville, assaulted and murdered Karen Hawkins,

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2080-509: The corner of 1st St and Buchanan St in downtown Maryville. The fire, which was started when food was left cooking unattended on a stove, claimed the lives of Brandon C. Kaut aged 22, and Derick A. Schafer aged 28. Another man, 21 year old Ibrahim Qaoud, was seriously injured as a result of the fire. He recovered at a Kansas City hospital. On November 16, 2007, Erik B. Romig and Nicholas A. Rosencrans, both of Maryville, got into an altercation with Donald Ray Gardner Jr, also of Maryville, over $ 40 at

2145-471: The county broadcast from Maryville: The Republican Party is predominate at the local level in Nodaway County. Republicans hold all but two of the elected positions in the county. All of Nodaway County is a part of Missouri’s 1st District in the Missouri House of Representatives and is represented by Allen Andrews (R- Grant City ). All of Nodaway County is a part of Missouri’s 12th District in

2210-464: The county in half and the eastern portion of Maryville covers its western plain. The Platte River traverses the easternmost portion of the county. Mozingo Lake is a large reservoir located 5 miles east of Maryville. Nodaway County is home to two wind farms . Tenaska Clear Creek Energy Center is a 242-megawatt wind farm containing 111 wind turbines located northwest of Maryville and directly west of Pickering. The 236.5-megawatt White Cloud Wind Farm

2275-507: The county's largest buildings, the Administration Building on the campus of Northwest Missouri State University and Conception Abbey . The 1881 Hopkins tornado is one of the first recorded F5 tornadoes . Early life in the county was chronicled by writer Homer Croy , a Nodaway County native, in many books, articles, films and Broadway shows in the 1920s and 1930s. The origin of the name "Nodaway" has been attributed to

2340-474: The court hearing. On June 27, 2013, Steve Parsons, owner of Parsons Tires in Maryville and Stanberry , committed suicide in a Nodaway County Courthouse courtroom, using a cyanide capsule that he had purchased online several days before. Parsons secretly slid the capsule into his mouth, after hearing he would be sent to prison for seven years for being guilty of the statutory sodomy of a 14-year-old girl, who

2405-520: The crime. They tied him to the school roof and set fire to the building, burning Gunn to death. On the night of October 10, 1972, Benedict “Benny” Kemper, 15 years old, cut the telephone line to the Marion Merrigan family’s house that was situated west of Conception , sneaked into the basement and waited for the family to go to sleep. Once the family was asleep, Kemper went upstairs and went from bedroom to bedroom murdering four members: Marion,

2470-498: The crowd as souvenirs. No charges were ever filed in the lynching. Attempts to identify the "man in the red coat" have been answered by the claim he was an outsider. However, newspapers said all the others were local. Gunn's lynching was universally condemned by newspapers across the United States. The Atlanta Constitution published an editorial cartoon with the caption of "The Torch of Civilization in Missouri." After

2535-527: The family cemetery is a vertical column with two hands clasped in friendship. The inscription on the headstone reads: "We Died Inocent." [sic] On December 9, 1884, Omaha Charley, whose real name was Joseph Paro, aka Charles F. Stephens, was the victim of a lynch mob. Six days earlier, he had shot Hubert Kremer in Hilgert's Saloon, in Maryville. Omaha Charley had been arrested, but others decided to take matters into their own hands. About 50 masked men broke into

2600-516: The father; Kathleen, the mother; William, his classmate and their son; and Helen Ann, their youngest daughter, using a .22 bolt-action rifle. The lone surviving family member, Sue Merrigan Dorrel, was a student at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville at the time. She is an aunt of former Northwest Missouri State University football coach Adam Dorrel . In 1973, Kemper was sentenced to four consecutive 45-year sentences for murder and an additional six years for an attempted jail escape. On

2665-517: The hallways of the Conception Abbey , murdering two monks and wounding two others, before committing suicide in the chapel. The victims were identified as the Rev. Philip Schuster, 85, and Brother Damian Larson, 64. Schuster was a greeter at the monastery's front door; Larson worked as a weatherman/groundskeeper. The Rev. Kenneth Reichert, 68, an assistant to the abbot, was shot in the stomach and

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2730-474: The house. Mrs. Hubbell was beaten to death with the shotgun butt. After killing the children, the murderer set fire to the Hubbell home, which almost incinerated the children's corpses. Little more than half of the torso of Hubbell was found after a passing neighbor had extinguished the blaze. Hez Rasco was arrested and charged with the murder of Hubbell, his wife, and their children Welton, 4, and Jessie, 6. Rasco

2795-404: The jail and demanded Omaha Charley. The county sheriff, James Anderson, and his brother, Deputy Jack Anderson, fought the mob, firing shots and being fired upon in return. Ultimately, the mob overpowered the sheriff and his deputy, and dragged Omaha Charley from his cell. They carried Stephens to the bridge at Fourth and Water Streets, where they tied the rope to the bridge railing and threw him over

2860-415: The local bar and saw nothing. Sheriff Danny Estes remarked, "That must have been the biggest damn pool table in the world." A local and federal law enforcement task force was set up to investigate the crime, but they could not find anyone willing to step forward to discuss the crime. The book and movie In Broad Daylight are based on this event. In 1990, BATF informant Christine Elkins disappeared. She

2925-471: The middle of Skidmore , in what is one of the county's best-kept secrets. An abusive man suspected of many crimes and convicted of attempted murder, McElroy was shot in his truck in Skidmore's main street, in full view of a crowd. The different caliber bullets showed there had been several people involved. However, when questioned by the county sheriff, everyone insisted they had ducked under the pool table in

2990-402: The mob. When he opened the door, the sheriff was pulled aside and Gunn was dragged out of the car. Witnesses later said the mob leader told the sheriff, "Either you move out of the way or die with this man, either way he's going to die today." Gunn was marched south down Main Street through the Maryville streets, avoiding the National Guard. After an hour and a half, Gunn and the crowd reached at

3055-491: The night of August 4, 1973, Teresa "Tessie" Hilt, a student at Northwest Missouri State, was strangled and stabbed to death in her off-campus apartment in Maryville, and found the next day in her blood-soaked bed by friends. This crime has never been solved and is still considered an open/cold case by the Maryville Department of Public Safety. On July 10, 1981, several unknown people killed Ken McElroy , in

3120-469: The one at the crime scene. Moreover, Gunn had a severe bite mark on his thumb, recalling the student's description of the 1925 rape attempt. Gunn finally confessed, saying he had entered the school with a hedge club after seeing the teacher outside with a coal bucket. She resisted his assault, biting his thumb, so he hit her with the club. She struck him with the coal bucket, and he hit her again and again, killing her. He then stabbed her. Anger and talk of

3185-547: The pickup, 22-year-old Scott R. Woods, of Hopkins, and three other victims, were tossed from the truck and seriously injured, but survived. Woods was sentenced on January 9, 2013, to 10 years in a Missouri prison for two felony counts of involuntary manslaughter and three charges of felony assault. On September 13, 2012, Kevin Dell Mooney, 31, and Tony Overlin, 23, both of Bethany , ambushed Northwest Missouri State University student Tomarken Smith, 21, of Jennings , outside

3250-441: The population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 8,138 households, out of which 27.30% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.00% were married couples living together, 6.20% had a female householder with no husband present, and 40.80% were non-families. 30.00% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.60% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size

3315-438: The side. Sheriff Anderson found his prisoner there an hour later. This was not Omaha Charley's first crime, however. Five years earlier, he was convicted of 2nd degree murder in the death of John Mahan. He was sentenced to twelve years in prison. In January 1884, he was pardoned by Governor Thomas Crittenden and released, having served only four and a half years of his sentence. One of the most notorious murders in Nodaway County

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3380-585: The three residents, 93 year old Lois Hall and her 69 year old son Carroll Hall, were killed in the explosion. The third resident, son and brother 49 year old Donald Hall, was seriously injured and found by rescue crews crawling out of the debris. He was flown to the University of Kansas hospital in Kansas City, Kansas. On January 27, 2007, a catastrophic fire severely damaged the Carson apartment complex on

3445-521: The trunk. Dental records identified the remains. Tony Emery was sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole, and is currently incarcerated at United States Penitentiary (USP) in Terre Haute, Indiana . He appealed the conviction, which was affirmed in 1999. Tug Emery is incarcerated on charges related to the murder at Federal Correctional Institution in Sandstone, Minnesota and has

3510-519: The warrant was ultimately declared illegal when it was found that Clarence Green, the campus Chief of Police, had withheld critical information and that there was no probable cause. Although that decision was appealed, a three judge appeals court unanimously ruled in Rouch's favor, and the charges were dismissed. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 878 square miles (2,270 km ), of which 877 square miles (2,270 km )

3575-401: Was 2.33 and the average family size was 2.94. In the county, the population was spread out, with 19.40% under the age of 18, 25.10% from 18 to 24, 23.10% from 25 to 44, 18.60% from 45 to 64, and 13.80% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females there were 99.70 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.00 males. The median income for

3640-635: Was arrested by the FBI , a Maryville Public Safety Detective, and a detective from the Cameron Police Dept. Montgomery was convicted of Stinnett's murder and sentenced to death in 2007 by a Federal Court in the Western District of Missouri. Victoria Jo was re-united with her father Zeb. Montgomery was executed on January 13, 2021. On January 11, 2006, a natural gas leak caused a house in Maryville to explode around 9pm that evening. Two of

3705-473: Was beaten to death by cousins Tony and Steven "Tug" Emery, joined by an unnamed associate. Elkins' body was wrapped in a carpet rug, thrown into the trunk of her car, and driven to the Missouri River . The Emerys used a board to hold the steering column in place and another piece to hold down the accelerator, and ran the car off a boat ramp near Nodaway . The car was found in 1997, with Elkins' bones in

3770-462: Was committed by Hezekiah "Hez" Rasco, a farmer's son, who was hanged on March 26, 1912, for the murder of Oda Hubbell. Rasco and Hubbell took part in an all-night poker game in a boxcar at the Barnard Depot. Hubbell returned to his family on the morning of November 20, 1910. The next day, Hubbell and his family were all found dead. Hubbell had been killed with a shotgun and his body dragged into

3835-584: Was his babysitter. Parsons had a seizure in court and was transported by EMS to Heartland Regional Hospital ER in Saint Joseph. While en route, Parsons went into cardiac arrest, and was pronounced dead by the local coroner upon arrival. On September 6, 2013, Matthew Rouch, 57, of Maryville, an instructor of Mass Media at Northwest Missouri State University, was arrested after staff from the Mass Media Department notified University Police of

3900-508: Was in serious condition. The Rev. Norbert Schappler, 73, who was shot twice, was listed in stable condition. Schappler oversees the dining room and works as director at the printing house. On December 16, 2004, Bobbie Jo Stinnett was murdered in her home in Skidmore, and had her unborn baby cut from her womb. Lisa Montgomery was located (along with the baby named Victoria Jo) due to computer forensic evidence, in Melvern, Kansas , where she

3965-528: Was just oiling it, which caused the crowd to disperse. Gunn was transferred a second time, 100 miles south of Maryville to Kansas City, Missouri . On December 26, at 3:30 a.m., Gunn returned to Maryville for arraignment, and was then immediately taken back to Kansas City. Velma Colter's mother was quoted as saying she could not bear a trial and would not testify. Her oldest son, Floyd Colter, had been killed in France during World War I . Gunn's court date

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4030-448: Was last seen in his home in the 300 block of West Oak Street in Skidmore, at around 3:00 p.m. He went outside to put some jumper cables in a shed. He never returned, and has never been heard from again. The Missouri State Highway Patrol and the Nodaway County Sheriff's Office still have an open/active case on this. On June 10, 2002, 71-year-old Lloyd Robert Jeffress , of Kearney , wielding two semi-automatic rifles, opened fire in

4095-552: Was sentenced to serve six years in prison by Judge Patrick Robb, after Overlin was found guilty of the Class C felony of involuntary manslaughter. On September 30, 2013, Mooney was sentenced to six years in prison. "Both Law Enforcement and Tomarken's family were involved from the very beginning and agreed the final outcome of this case was just and appropriate," said Robert Rice, Prosecuting Attorney of Nodaway County, Missouri. Tomarken's family and several law enforcement officials attended

4160-459: Was set for January 12. The Nodaway County prosecuting attorney insisted Gunn would get a fair trial and appealed (along with Maryville business leaders) to Missouri's governor, Henry S. Caulfield , to deploy the National Guard to prevent an anticipated lynching attempt. Caulfield complied and 60 guardsmen were ordered at 7:30 a.m. to stand by at the National Guard a block north of the courthouse (today's Maryville Public Library). However, by law,

4225-402: Was tried and convicted only for Oda Hubbell's murder. Rasco maintained his innocence to his death. The murders were covered in the book Hezekiah Rasco: Child of Woe — Man of Sorrow . Raymond Gunn was arrested for the murder and attempted rape of a young white schoolteacher. He confessed his guilt. On January 12, 1931, a mob in Maryville took Gunn from the jail and marched him to the scene of

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