{"id":105,"date":"2012-05-20T03:37:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T08:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/?p=105"},"modified":"2012-05-24T01:49:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T06:49:59","slug":"thomas-james-charged-with-murder-1870","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/thomas-james-charged-with-murder-1870\/","title":{"rendered":"THOMAS, James &#8211; Charged with Murder (1870)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A negro man named <strong>James THOMAS<\/strong> was arrested yesterday on information given to the police, charged with having murdered another negro named<strong> Green MILLER<\/strong>, at Balding&#8217;s Landing, in Arkansas, in November last. \u00a0At first he denied his identity, even when confronted by a gentleman who thoroughly identified him, but after being rather sharply cross-questioned by Mr. PEARNE, and a reporter, he confessed not only to having been party to the murder of MILLER, but also to having killed <strong>Joe ALLEN<\/strong>, another negro, shortly afterward. \u00a0He was locked up to await a requisition from<strong> Gov. CLAYTON<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em>Source: Memphis Daily Appeal, 1 Jan 1870, pg. 4. <a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045160\/1870-01-01\/ed-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Available via ChroniclingAmerica.gov<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A negro man named James THOMAS was arrested yesterday on information given to the police, charged with having murdered another negro named Green MILLER, at Balding&#8217;s Landing, in Arkansas, in November last. \u00a0At first he denied his identity, even when confronted by a gentleman who thoroughly identified him, but after being rather sharply cross-questioned by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/thomas-james-charged-with-murder-1870\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;THOMAS, James &#8211; Charged with Murder (1870)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[33,34,32,14],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsarticle","tag-allen","tag-clayton","tag-miller","tag-thomas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}