hanged.at the Colorado State Prison on March 10, 1933. He met his
fate calmly, wearing a faint smile, and refused to make any state-
ment from the gallows, |
TUNNISON NEWS-~CHAMPIDON AND GUNNISON REPUBLICAN, 3-2-1932 & 3~16~33
hanged at the Colorado State Prison on March 10, 1933. He met his
fate calmly, wearing a faint smile, and refused to make any state-
ment from the gallows,
TUNNISON NEWS~CHAMPIDON AND GUNNISON REPUBLICAN, 3-2))-1932 & 3-16-33
hanged at the Colorado State Frison on March 10, 1933, He met his
faint smile, and refused to make any state-
ment from the gallows.
TUNNISON NEWS-CHAMPIDEN AND GUNNISON REPUBLICAN, 3-2))-1932 & 3-16-33
MOSS, Nelivelt
man who-lived with his mother and step-father in RRRKXKEKX
Pitkin, Gunnison Co., Colo. On the afternoon of Maréh 10, 1932,
he encountered a 79-year-old white Pitkin pioneer, Mrs. Rena
Schierenback, on the streets of Gumison and spoke to her, Bhe told
him to leave her alone and called him a thief using a racial epithet,
This enraged him and he brooddd over it all day and into the night,
Around 11 o'clotk that night, he went to her home , unlatched a
screen door through a hole in the screen and entered the house, He
picked up a heavy lamp in the kitchen and entered the elderly womanls
bedroom. The noise aroused her and when she asked who was there, he
knocked her unconscious with the heavy base of the lamp. He then
poured kerosene over the house, set it afire and went home and to
bed. The other members of his family and the neighbors all went
down to see the fire, but Moss remained at home. He was suspected
rom the beginning and, following a k of tioni “
880d and gave as his “sole motare hig resentment et the we te
6 had talked to him, Convicted and sentenced to death, he was
MOSS, Nelivelt
Moss, alias Nelivelt Elliott and Jack McGee, was a 20-year-old black
man who-lived with his mother and step-father in
Pitkin, Gunnison Co.y Colo. On the afternoon of Maréh 10, 1932,
he encountered a 79-year-old white Pitkin pioneer, Mrs. Rena
Schierenback, on the streets of Gunnison and spoke to her. She told
him to leave her alone and called him a thief using a racial epithet,|
This enraged him and he brooddd over it all day and into the night.
Around 11 o'clotk that night, he went to her home , unlatched a
screen door through a hole in the screen and entered the house. He
picked up a heavy lamp in the kitchen and entered the elderly wonan!qd
bedroom. The noise aroused her and when she asked who was there » he
knocked her unconscious with the heavy base of the lamp. He then
poured kerosene over the house, set it afire and went home &nd to
bed. The other members of his family and the neighbors all went
down to see the fire, but Moss remained at home. He was suspected
rc inni ; " Hae
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she had talked to him. Convicted and sentenced to death, ao was
MOSS, Nelivelt
Moss, alias Nelivelt Eliott and Jack McGee, was a
man who-lived with his mother and step-father in
Pitkin, Gunnison Cos, Colo. On the afternoon of Maréh 10, 1932,
he encountered a 79-year-old white Pitkin pioneer, Mrs. Rei
Schierenback, on the streets of Gunnison and spoke to her. She told
him to leave her alone and called him a thief using a racial epithet.
This enraged him and he brooddd over it all day and into the night.
4round 11 o'clotk that night, he went to her home , unlatched a
sereen door through a hole in the screen and entered the house.
year-old black
went home and to
@ of his fanily and the neighbors all went
down to see the fire, but Moss remained at home, He was suspected
‘rom the beginning and, following £ i
Heiedlend Gave aff his *sola motive his resent oe ee paleo
@ had talked to him. Convicted and sentenced to death, he was
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