{"id":2845,"date":"2012-01-18T11:27:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2012-01-18T11:27:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:27:28","slug":"mfdj011812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2845","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For January 18, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Almost Intact Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Five Points Gang was a 19th century criminal organization based in the Sixth Ward (the Five Points) of New York City.  One of the chief lieutenants of the gang was Johnny Spanish.  Spanish, whose real name was Joseph Wayler, had begun as a solo operator, specializing in holdups of stuss games.  He usually carried two revolvers in his belt and two in his pockets, as well as a blackjack and brass knuckles.  He was still addicted to robbing stuss tables in his gang years, and once, while trying to stick up the mechanic Kid Jigger, met resistance and misfired, killing an eight-year-old girl.  He fled town and returned some months later, only to find that his girlfriend, who was pregnant with his child, had taken up with fellow Five Pointer Kid Dropper.  Enraged, Spanish hustled her into a taxi and out to Maspeth, where he stood her up against a tree and shot her through the abdomen.  In a denouement out of Western legend, she was merely knocked unconscious, and prematurely gave birth to a child who came into the world with three fingers shot off, but otherwise intact.  Spanish got seven years.  <\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0374528993\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=theasylumeclecti&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0374528993\">Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=theasylumeclecti&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0374528993\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Almost Intact Yet Truly Morbid Fact! The Five Points Gang was a 19th century criminal organization based in the Sixth Ward (the Five Points) of New York City. One of the chief lieutenants of the gang was Johnny Spanish. Spanish, whose real name was Joseph Wayler, had begun as a solo operator, specializing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}