The Knoxville Journal
January 23, 1930
WOMAN, MAN, 2 NEGROES SHOT
Race Affray Near Madisonville Ascribed To Jealousy.
MADISONVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 22. --- A white woman, a white man and two negroes were wounded as the result of a shooting affray about 12:30 a. m. today on the McCroskey highway, two miles from Madisonville. The women, Lillian Winters, formerly of Knoxville, is in the Sweetwater hospital, with Harley Joines, married, of Madisonville. Reports tonight from the hospital were that both were in a serious condition.
The winters woman was shot in the neck, the bullet ranging downward into the lung, while Joines was shot in the face, some of his teeth being knocked out. He told Sheriff Kennedy he emptied his pistol. six hulls being found near the car of the negroes.
The shooting was begun after Joines had brought the woman from Etowah, and she had left him in front of the home of her brother, Howard Winters, to get into a car with three negroes, in company with her sister, Ella Winters.
Objection to the Winters women getting into the car with negroes, Joines went for Deputy Sheriff Orvil Harrell, who returned with him to Howard Winters’ home. When the negroes and the women returned, the shooting was begun.
Oscar Jones, negro, of Philadelphia, was shot in the abdomen, and Robert Upton, another of the trio of negroes in the car, was shot in the right side of the back. He was taken to the Sweetwater hospital today. H told Sheriff Kennedy that Joines shot him. The negro said he fired one shot and believed he his Joines. The third negro in the, Tom Upton, was unhurt.
The Jones negro, who is in the Loudon hospital, sent for Sheriff Kennedy today, and told the sheriff that a man had stepped on the running board of his car and shot into the car. He did not know Joines. The negro said he was so frightened that he did not know whether or not he fired a shot. Physicians at Loudon were doubtful of the recovery of the negro.
Joines was convicted recently of selling liquor and was to be started to Brushy Mountains Monday to begin a term in prison.
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