On Sunday, July 14, 1901, in the town of Pineville, Kentucky, a 37-year-old male named **Deputy Sheriff Joseph Manning** was shot and killed in the line of duty. The incident began when Deputy Manning, accompanied by a police officer from the nearby town of Middlesboro, attempted to serve a warrant on a man who had been causing a disturbance. The suspect was known to local law enforcement for his habit of taunting officers by firing his gun into the air and then fleeing across jurisdictional lin
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