{"id":3427,"date":"2015-03-12T23:03:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T04:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=3427"},"modified":"2015-03-12T23:03:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T04:03:22","slug":"negro-convict-shot-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/negro-convict-shot-1890\/","title":{"rendered":"Negro Convict Shot (1890)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong> \u00a0Mr. Thomas FINCH,<\/strong>\u00a0who lives in Randolph County not far from Thomasville, shot a negro man Monday morning. \u00a0The negro was a county convict hired to\u00a0<strong>FINCH<\/strong>\u00a0by the authorities of Randolph. \u00a0As he showed a disposition to shirk work,\u00a0Mr. <strong>FINCH\u00a0<\/strong>declared his intention to take him back to jail and said that he intended to tie him. \u00a0The negro refused to be tied, and while they were parleying,\u00a0<strong>Mr. James PERRY<\/strong>\u00a0called at <strong>FINCH\u2019s<\/strong> house, and found them facing each other,\u00a0<strong>FINCH\u00a0<\/strong>with a drawn pistol and the negro with an open knife. \u00a0<strong>FINCH<\/strong>\u00a0explained the situation to\u00a0<strong>PERRY<\/strong>\u00a0and asked him to tie the negro while he kept guard,\u00a0<strong>PERRY\u00a0<\/strong>consented to do so, and stooped down to pick up the rope which was on the floor between\u00a0<strong>FINCH<\/strong>\u00a0and the negro; and while he was stooping,\u00a0<strong>FINCH<\/strong>\u00a0fired. \u00a0The negro clasped his hands to his abdomen and ran out of the house, neither of the white men following him,\u00a0<strong>PERRY<\/strong>\u00a0went at once to Thomasville, where he related the occurrence to our informant.<\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source: Davidson Times-Dispatch, 15 \u00a0January 1890. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=Itmi1h0dExoC&amp;dat=18900122&amp;b_mode=2&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Paper available at Google News Archive.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mr. Thomas FINCH,\u00a0who lives in Randolph County not far from Thomasville, shot a negro man Monday morning. \u00a0The negro was a county convict hired to\u00a0FINCH\u00a0by the authorities of Randolph. \u00a0As he showed a disposition to shirk work,\u00a0Mr. FINCH\u00a0declared his intention to take him back to jail and said that he intended to tie him. \u00a0The [&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":[320,3025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-davidson","category-davidson-dispatch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-Th","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427","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=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3428,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions\/3428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}