{"id":1172,"date":"2014-03-23T09:30:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T14:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2014-03-23T09:30:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T14:30:42","slug":"fight-at-edenton-1889","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/fight-at-edenton-1889\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight at Edenton (1889)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mr. Joe S. LEGGETT<\/strong> formerly of this town but now of Edenton, and <strong>Mr. LEVY<\/strong>, of Edenton, became involved in a fight on Sunday last, and but for a cane which <strong>Mr. LEGGETT<\/strong> happened to \u00a0have he would have been seriously injured. \u00a0It seems that <strong>Mr. LEVY&#8217;s<\/strong> son insulted <strong>Mr. LEGGETT<\/strong> and he not caring to take the insult slapped the boy, who went to his father. <strong>\u00a0Mr. LEVY<\/strong> at once approached <strong>Mr. LEGGETT<\/strong> and without any warning began to cut him, the boy also used a knife. \u00a0<strong>Mr. LEGGETT<\/strong> struck<strong> LEVY<\/strong> with the cane and stunned him, after which LEVY was arrested and gave bond. \u00a0The trial was held this week, but we have not yet heard the result. <strong>\u00a0Mr. LEGGETT<\/strong> had his coat cut all to pieces, but only two flesh wounds were inflicted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe<\/strong> is a quiet boy, but has too much Plymouth &#8220;Grit&#8221; about him to be imposed upon by any man.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Source: Roanoke Beacon, 12 July 1889. \u00a0Available online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalnc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">digitalnc.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Joe S. LEGGETT formerly of this town but now of Edenton, and Mr. LEVY, of Edenton, became involved in a fight on Sunday last, and but for a cane which Mr. LEGGETT happened to \u00a0have he would have been seriously injured. \u00a0It seems that Mr. LEVY&#8217;s son insulted Mr. LEGGETT and he not caring [&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":[22,1025,77],"tags":[1163],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chowan","category-roanoke-beacon","category-washington","tag-leggett-joe-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-iU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","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=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}