{"id":951,"date":"2013-11-16T13:55:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T19:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/?p=951"},"modified":"2013-11-16T13:55:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T19:55:20","slug":"greenlaw-attempts-to-take-his-life-1866","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/greenlaw-attempts-to-take-his-life-1866\/","title":{"rendered":"GREENLAW Attempts to Take His Life (1866)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Lorenzo <strong>GREENLAW<\/strong>, the gentleman who recently fought a duel with Henderson <strong>TAYLOR<\/strong>, attempted to take his own life in Memphis on the 6th. He laid down upon a bed, in his own room, placed a pistol near his heart and fired; the ball that was to find a lodgment in the fount of his vital tide, struck a rib and glanced around toward the small of his back, producing only a painful flesh wound. No one save the would be suicide, knows the reasons, if any, that prompted Mr. <strong>GREENLAW<\/strong> to put an end to his own existence.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85033306\/1866-10-13\/ed-1\/seq-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 13 Oct. 1866, Page 2<\/a>. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib.\u00a0of Congress.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Lorenzo GREENLAW, the gentleman who recently fought a duel with Henderson TAYLOR, attempted to take his own life in Memphis on the 6th. He laid down upon a bed, in his own room, placed a pistol near his heart and fired; the ball that was to find a lodgment<\/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":[994,995],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-shelby","tag-greenlaw-lorenzo","tag-taylor-henderson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","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=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}