{"id":443,"date":"2013-11-18T03:05:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T03:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=443"},"modified":"2013-11-18T03:05:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T03:05:54","slug":"father-and-son-hanged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"Father And Son Hanged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corkscrew-balloon.com\/01\/06\/2fla\/30a.html\">Steele Scrapbook<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; June 19, 1885<\/span><\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\" height=\"447\">\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/garretdom\/crime\/hung.jpg\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: large;\">FATHER AND SON HANGED .<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: medium;\">FARMERSVILLE, La., June 19.\u2014Perry and William Melton, father and son, were hanged to-day for the murder of John W. Cherry. William died in great agony, the loop having caught over his chin in descending, remaining so as to allow easy respiration. After remaining so fifteen minutes, his condition being unchanged, the rope was re adjusted and death resulted in eleven minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr width=\"75%\" \/>\n<p><i>Ruthlessly Snatched From The Arms Of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corkscrew-balloon.com\/\">Alf<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steele Scrapbook\u00a0&#8211; June 19, 1885 &nbsp; FATHER AND SON HANGED . FARMERSVILLE, La., June 19.\u2014Perry and William Melton, father and son, were hanged to-day for the murder of John W. Cherry. William died in great agony, the loop having caught over his chin in descending, remaining so as to allow easy respiration. After remaining so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=443\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Father And Son Hanged<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capital-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}