{"id":90,"date":"2014-06-14T01:32:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T06:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne2\/?p=90"},"modified":"2014-06-14T01:32:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T06:32:14","slug":"horse-thieves-newspaper-articles-and-other-tidbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/horse-thieves-newspaper-articles-and-other-tidbits\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse Thieves: Newspaper Articles And Other Tidbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the &#8220;Florence Journal&#8221; Florence, Alabama, Wednesday, 8 August 1866, page 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Horse Thieves<\/strong>. On Saturday night last near Esq. Davis&#8217; in Wayne county, Tenn, near the State line, two men were caught stealing horses, their names are\u00a0<strong>Thornton\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Ford<\/strong>. These men had resorted to a place where night preaching was being held, and agreed to give a negro man ten dollars to show them the two best horses on the ground. The negro showed them some horses, but took good care to tell the paties [parties] what was going on and while<strong>Thornton<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Ford<\/strong>\u00a0were untying some horses they were surrounded and captured.\u00a0<strong>Thornton<\/strong>\u00a0is the man that killed Mr. Broyles of Savannah, a short time since; and for whom a thousand dollars reward was offered by Broyle&#8217;s relations.<br \/>\nCapt. McFarland and Mr. Brooks have recovered the horses stolen from them some two or three weeks ago, but the thieves, we are sorry to say, are still at large.<br \/>\nA certain Col. McGill, that was here last fall, pretending to wish to buy cotton, but who suddenly left this region of the country with a fine horse belonging to Mr. Wm. Pettus, is now in jail in Memphis, and will soon, if Gov. Brownlow heeds Gov. Patton&#8217;s requisition, take rooms at Mr. Fry&#8217;s boarding house in this place.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Submitted by\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mahan123@comcast.net\">Pat Mahan<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the &#8220;Florence Journal&#8221; Florence, Alabama, Wednesday, 8 August 1866, page 3 Horse Thieves. On Saturday night last near Esq. Davis&#8217; in Wayne county, Tenn, near the State line, two men were caught stealing horses, their names are\u00a0Thornton\u00a0and\u00a0Ford. These men had resorted to a place where night preaching was being held, and agreed to give [&hellip;]<\/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":[199],"tags":[213,80,211,212,214,210],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","tag-broyles","tag-davis","tag-ford","tag-mcfarland","tag-mcgill","tag-thornton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}