{"id":1087,"date":"2014-03-17T00:56:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T05:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2014-03-17T00:56:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T05:56:01","slug":"joseph-scales-in-jail-1900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/joseph-scales-in-jail-1900\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Scales in Jail (1900)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Joseph SCALES<\/strong>, a negro aged 15, is in jail at Reidsville for outraging a 6-year-old daughter of <strong>Mrs. John HUSKEY<\/strong>, who captured him herself and marched over to the house at the muzzle of a revolver. There she range the farm bell and men came and took the young brute to jail. Only his youth saved him from lynching.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Source: Roanoke Beacon, 7 September 1900. \u00a0Available online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalnc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">digitalnc.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph SCALES, a negro aged 15, is in jail at Reidsville for outraging a 6-year-old daughter of Mrs. John HUSKEY, who captured him herself and marched over to the house at the muzzle of a revolver. There she range the farm bell and men came and took the young brute to jail. Only his youth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1025,219],"tags":[1073,1072],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-roanoke-beacon","category-rockingham","tag-huskey-john-mrs","tag-scales-joseph"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-hx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}