The Truth About the Apple Pie School Murder, with Pat McNees
Channel: Celebration Videos
Date: 2023-09-29

Rocks were pelted at the heads of Huston McNees, 35, and his brother the night of a social at the Apple Pie schoolhouse in Douglas County, Kansas, just before Christmas 1906. The ensuing fight between two feuding families ended in gunshots, and Huston McNees was shot and beaten so severely that he died two days after the assault. John Lewis was tried for Huston McNees’s murder and the 1907 trial was the biggest ever held in the county at the time, with 82 witnesses in all. The story told here is based on dozens of newspaper accounts at the time of the shooting and trial.