Bio & Incident Details
Age: Not available
Tour: Not available
Badge # Not available
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 9/2/1928
Weapon: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect: Shot and killed
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Deputy Sheriff Joner Cornett was shot and killed while searching for a man wanted for murdering Policeman Jim Clem of the Poor Fork Police Department in 1925. The subject was also wanted for liquor violations.
As Deputy Cornett searched the man's home he was fatally shot. The suspect escaped from the home but was shot and killed about two months later when he was located a moonshine still.
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