{"id":916,"date":"2013-11-16T12:54:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T18:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/?p=916"},"modified":"2013-11-16T12:54:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T18:54:51","slug":"assassination-attempt-1866","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/assassination-attempt-1866\/","title":{"rendered":"Assassination Attempt (1866)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday, while Col. M. C. <\/span>GALLOWAY<\/strong>, editor of the Memphis Avalanche<\/em>, was at the office of Monsarrat, Lanier & Co., Assessor M. H. <\/span>WOOD<\/strong>, who had taken offence at publications made in the Avalanche<\/em>, took the occasion to call Col. <\/span>GALLOWAY<\/strong> to account for the same; a difficult ensued, during the course of which <\/span>WOOD<\/strong> thrust a walking cane at his intended victim – the cane was an\u00a0<\/span>ingeniously<\/span>\u00a0constructed weapon, combining the qualities of a rifle and common walking stick – knowing that it would be\u00a0<\/span>seized<\/span>, and when Col. <\/span>GALLOWAY<\/strong> has grasped it, <\/span>WOOD<\/strong> pulled the trigger of the well masked\u00a0<\/span>weapon<\/span>\u00a0and discharged its contents into the Colonel’s hand. Had it not been for the prompt action of a by-stander who thrust the cane aside, a more serious result of this attempted assassination, in all probability, would have to be recorded. <\/span>WOOD<\/strong> was taken in charge and handed over to the proper officers, who placed him in lock-up.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 01 Sept. 1866, Page 2<\/a>. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday, while Col. M. C. GALLOWAY, editor of the Memphis Avalanche, was at the office of Monsarrat, Lanier & Co., Assessor M. H. WOOD, who had taken offence at publications made in the Avalanche, took the occasion to call Col. GALLOWAY to account for the same; a difficult ensued,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"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":[990,989],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-shelby","tag-galloway-m-c","tag-wood-m-h"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}