A Sheriff Murdered His Brother and Official Predecessor Also Assassinated KNOXVILLE, Tenn, May 10 A telegram from Montgomery, W.V., tells of the probable fala! shooting of Sheriff Burnett of Campbell county. Tenn., at that place. One year ago Sheriff John Burnett of Campbell county, was on a Knoxvilie and Ohio passenger train near this city, while trying to arrest an escaped prisoner named Jones, who had been rescued from him on the previous day by the Smith brothers. In the riot that followed on the train, besides Sheriff Burnett, one of the Smiths was killed and a half a dozen others were injured. The affair took place on a Saturday, next day one of tbe Smiths, who had been placed in jail at Jacksboro was lynched. The other one, Jim Smith, however, escaped. He was located a few days ago in West Virginia by Sheriff Bud Burnett, Campbell county, who was appointed to fill out the unfinished time of his brother, and had gone to West Virginia to make the arrest. Source: News, Frederick, Maryland, May 10, 1894