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Murder of Mary Speir Gunn
Miss Mary Speir Gunn (31 August 1862 – 18 October 1913) was murdered at the isolated Northbank Cottage near Portencross in North Ayrshire, Scotland on the evening of 18 October 1913. Her sister Jessie McLaren was also shot through the abdomen and her brother-in-law Alexander McLaren was shot in the hand.〔 Papers described the murder at the time as ‘a terrible and most mysterious tragedy’.〔(Ardrossan & Saltcoats Herald )〕
== Mary Gunn ==
Mary Speir Gunn was born in Stevenston in North Ayrshire to parents Jane Speir of Dalry and Gilbert Gunn of Gateside. Mary was one of three sisters and her father was a well known railway contractor and was said to be one of Scotland's strongest men.〔House, Page 124〕 In 1881 and 1891 Mary was living in Beith at Burnside and was said to be very good looking, the Burnsian style sobriquet 'Beauty of Beith'〔 accurately describing her. In 1891 she is recorded to have had the then unusual occupation of 'telephone operator', indeed being the town's first in 1883;〔(Soulsearchers )〕〔〔(S1 West Kilbride )〕 she later worked at Ardrossan in the same capacity.〔
In 1901 Mary was working for and living in Wigtonshire with her brother-in-law Alexander McLaren, then aged 48, a self-employed baker, his wife and Mary's sister Jessie, also aged 48, and Jane Speir Gunn, aged 83, Mary's mother.〔(Ayrshire Roots )〕 Alexander had run the Glengarnock Iron and Steel Company Store before moving to Port William in Wigtonshire.〔 Alexander built an evangelistic Ebenezer Hall at Port William which he operated and was also on the school board. Alexander was offered the post office at Taynuilt and moved there with his wife before moving into farming and then retiring to Portencross.〔
Mary had stayed at Port William to tie up the family affairs and when she joined them in Taynuilt she found that she was just expected to work on the farm. Mary's middle sister lived in Canada with her husband John Craig〔Kellie, Page 161〕 and Mary decided to accept her invitation to join them,〔 however despite a promising love affair she was back at Taynuilt before long. Her romantic interlude in Saskatchewan was not found to have any link to her murder.〔House, Page 125〕 In 1913 at the age of 51 Mary was living at the remote and inaccessible Northbank Cottage, an old farm situated beneath the precipitous red sandstone cliffs on the raised beach near Portencross with her sister Jessie and brother-in-law Alex.〔
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