{"id":2405,"date":"2014-07-20T22:14:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T03:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2014-07-20T22:14:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T03:14:36","slug":"attemped-lynching-of-william-holland-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/attemped-lynching-of-william-holland-1890\/","title":{"rendered":"Attemped Lynching of William Holland (1890)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A night or two ago a gang of fifteen masked men went to the house of <strong>William HOLLAND<\/strong>, at Latham&#8217;s Cross Roads, in Beaufort county, N.C., and took him from his house to a distant tree about one hundred and fifty yards distant. \u00a0They put a rope around his neck, intending to lynch him. \u00a0His mother and sister came upon the scene and interfered in his behalf, and were both badly hurt by ruffins. <strong>HOLLAND<\/strong> saw a man up a tree, and recognized him. \u00a0Before the lynchers succeeded in accomplishing their purpose some one in the house fired a pistol, which frightened them away.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Source: Roanoke Beacon, 14 February 1890.\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #333333;\">Available online at\u00a0<a style=\"color: #a4a4a4;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalnc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">digitalnc.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A night or two ago a gang of fifteen masked men went to the house of William HOLLAND, at Latham&#8217;s Cross Roads, in Beaufort county, N.C., and took him from his house to a distant tree about one hundred and fifty yards distant. \u00a0They put a rope around his neck, intending to lynch him. \u00a0His [&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":[123,1025],"tags":[2210],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beaufort","category-roanoke-beacon","tag-holland-william"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-CN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","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=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2406,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/2406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}