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A terrible murder was committed at Fair Garden, nine miles above Sevierville, about 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon.

John Llewellyn cut and stabbed to death a neighbor by the name of Houston Craighorn and skipped the country. The last seen of the murderer he was headed towards Knoxville [remainder of article not transcribed]

Source: The Knoxville Daily Journal, Sunday, September 10, 1893

Transcribed by Robert McGinnis

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