{"id":1868,"date":"2014-06-07T20:39:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T01:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2014-06-07T20:39:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T01:39:43","slug":"lacey-charles-d-1889","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/lacey-charles-d-1889\/","title":{"rendered":"LACEY, Charles &#8211; (d. 1889)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Shot by A Horse Thief<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Charles LACEY, a well known liveryman of Memphis, was shot and killed at Dexter, Tenn., by a negro named Bill SWIFT. \u00a0A few days ago SWIFT stole a mule from John FARABLE, a farmer, living near Dexter, and brought it to Memphis, where he effected a trade with LACY.<\/p>\n<p>FARRABLE appeared and claimed the mule. \u00a0LACEY swore out a warrant for SWIFT&#8217;s arrest and in company with FARRABLE drove out to the thief&#8217;s house. \u00a0SWIFT was ready for them, and as LACEY opened the door shot him dead. The murderer escaped.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em style=\"color: #4b4b4b;\">Source: Roanoke Beacon, 11 October\u00a01889. \u00a0Available online at\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #a4a4a4;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalnc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">digitalnc.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shot by A Horse Thief Charles LACEY, a well known liveryman of Memphis, was shot and killed at Dexter, Tenn., by a negro named Bill SWIFT. \u00a0A few days ago SWIFT stole a mule from John FARABLE, a farmer, living near Dexter, and brought it to Memphis, where he effected<\/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":[15,6],"tags":[2026,2024,2025],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-shelby","tag-farrable-john","tag-lacey-charles","tag-swift-bill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","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=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}