{"id":1668,"date":"2014-03-23T10:21:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T15:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2014-03-23T10:21:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T15:21:06","slug":"double-tragedy-in-memphis-1889","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/double-tragedy-in-memphis-1889\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Tragedy in Memphis (1889)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A double tragedy, horrible in its details, was committed at Memphis, Tenn., the murderer and the suicide being <strong>Frank BRENISH<\/strong>, and the victim his wife. <strong>\u00a0BRENISH&#8217;s<\/strong> wife left him some time ago because of his failure to support her and their two children. \u00a0<strong>BRENISH<\/strong> met his wife on the street and requested her to return home with him. \u00a0She refused, and grabbing her by the hair, he pulled her head over backward, and, with a large butcher knife, cut her throat from ear to ear. \u00a0She died within a few minutes. \u00a0<strong>BRENISH<\/strong> then slashed at his own throat, causing a wound from which he will probably die. \u00a0He wrote a statement declaring that his wife was untrue to him and that he had nothing to live for.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Source: Roanoke Beacon, 19 July 1889. \u00a0Available online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalnc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">digitalnc.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A double tragedy, horrible in its details, was committed at Memphis, Tenn., the murderer and the suicide being Frank BRENISH, and the victim his wife. \u00a0BRENISH&#8217;s wife left him some time ago because of his failure to support her and their two children. \u00a0BRENISH met his wife on the street<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[258,6],"tags":[1510],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-shelby","tag-brenish-frank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}