{"id":961,"date":"2019-09-21T15:27:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T20:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/?p=961"},"modified":"2019-09-21T15:28:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T20:28:23","slug":"lacey-charles-d-1889","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/lacey-charles-d-1889\/","title":{"rendered":"LACEY, Charles (d. 1889)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<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.&nbsp; A few days ago Swift stole a mule from Jon Farable, a farmer, living near Dexter, and brought it to Memphis, where he effected a trace with Lacy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Farrable appeared and claimed the mule.&nbsp; Lacey swore out a warrant for Swift&#8217;s arrest and in company with Farrable drove out to the thief&#8217;s house.&nbsp; Swift was ready for them, and as Lacey opened the door shot him dead. The murderer escaped.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/newspapers.digitalnc.org\/lccn\/sn92074055\/1889-10-11\/ed-1\/seq-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roanoke Beacon newspaper (Plymouth, NC), 11 October 1889, page 1, column 4.&nbsp;<\/a><\/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.&nbsp; A few days ago Swift stole a mule from Jon Farable, a farmer, living near Dexter, and brought it to Memphis, where he effected a trace with Lacy.&nbsp; Farrable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/lacey-charles-d-1889\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LACEY, Charles (d. 1889)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[7],"tags":[340,341],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary","tag-lacey","tag-swift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}