White Pine – This evening at about 5 o'clock, Joe M. Fain, formerly of Knoxville and Dandridge, was shot and instantly killed by J. E. Smith, a policeman in White Pine.

Mr. Fain left here last Tuesday and was married to Miss Mollie DeWitt of White Pine the next day. It seems that Mr. Fain and Smith had a difficulty last week and they met in the depot and Fain started towards Smith with a knife, when Smith drew his revolver, fired and killed him almost instantly. [remainder not transcribed]

Source: The Knoxville Daily Journal, Tuesday, January 2, 1894

Transcribed by Robert McGinnis