{"id":911,"date":"2014-02-09T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T20:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=911"},"modified":"2015-02-10T02:09:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T08:09:28","slug":"spencer-chas-d-1885","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/spencer-chas-d-1885\/","title":{"rendered":"SPENCER, Chas. (d. 1885)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Horrible Murder in McDowell County &#8212; On Sunday there was discovered in Mill creek, near Old Fort, the body of a negro man, named\u00a0<strong>Chas. SPENCER<\/strong>, with his neck broken and his skull crushed. \u00a0There is little or no doubt but that the negro came to his death by violence. \u00a0The following, from this mornings\u00a0<em>Advance<\/em>, gives the facts in the premises, which are in keeping with the information we have obtained.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SPENCER<\/strong> was employed on the railroad as a section hand, and came up to the town of Old Fort, Thursday evening, where he met two young men by the name of <strong>YARBOROUGH<\/strong>, both of whom were drinking to excess. \u00a0At the earnest solicitation of these \u00a0young men,\u00a0<strong>SPENCER<\/strong> accompanied them home. \u00a0One of them says that he came with\u00a0<strong>SPENCER\u00a0<\/strong>a portion of the way back and left him. \u00a0The next day, Friday, he was not seen by any of the citizens in the neighborhood, and Saturday his family became uneasy and instituted a search for him. \u00a0The body was found Sunday morning, with the neck broken and a portion of the skull bone broken in, lying in the edge of a creek, about 75 yards below where\u00a0<strong>YARBBOROUGH<\/strong> says he parted with him.<\/p>\n<p>A coroner&#8217;s jury was summoned Sunday and an inquest held. \u00a0The evidence disclosed the facts above stated. \u00a0The jury returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death at the hands of party or parties to them unknown.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>The Asheville citizen.<\/i>\u00a0(Asheville, N.C.), 22 April 1885.\u00a0<i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers<\/i>. Lib. of Congress. &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn84020682\/1885-04-22\/ed-1\/seq-1\/\">http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn84020682\/1885-04-22\/ed-1\/seq-1\/<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horrible Murder in McDowell County &#8212; On Sunday there was discovered in Mill creek, near Old Fort, the body of a negro man, named\u00a0Chas. SPENCER, with his neck broken and his skull crushed. \u00a0There is little or no doubt but that the negro came to his death by violence. \u00a0The following, from this mornings\u00a0Advance, gives [&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":[47,1558,6,711],"tags":[902],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-ashevillecitizen","category-death","category-mcdowell","tag-spencer-chas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-eH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","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=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3200,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/3200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}