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Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday September 15, 1920
Williamson, Mingo County, West Virginia – Sid Hatfield Among Those Indicted
From The Bismarck Tribune of September 13, 1920:
Williamson, W. Va.-Twenty-three miners, citizens and officials of Matewan, a mine town near here, stand indicted for the alleged murder of Albert Felts and six of his mine detectives in a street battle last May. Above is shown Sid Hatfield (marked with an X), chief of police of Matewan, accused of shooting Felts, and Hatfield’s co-defendants. Center, a squad of federal troops climbing into an army truck at their camp at Sycamore Creek, near here, for a hurry call. They are held here to preserve order. Judge Joseph Dameron recalled all pistol permits in Mingo county in an effort to reduce what he called “too may shootings.” Below, a deputy sheriff, searching a defendant at the door of the courthouse before permitting him to enter to arrange his bond.
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Mother Jones Princeton WV Speech Aug 15, 1920,
-Steel Speeches, p230
https://books.google.com/books?id=vI-xAAAAIAAJ
The Bismarck Tribune
(Bismarck, North Dakota)
-Sept 13, 1920
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042243/1920-09-13/ed-1/seq-2/
See also:
Tag: Sid Hatfield
https://weneverforget.org/tag/sid-hatfield/
Tag: Matewan Defendants of 1920
https://weneverforget.org/tag/matewan-defendants-of-1920/
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Two-Gun Sid – Dover Mountain
“Two-Gun Sid you got plenty of gall,
Standin’ in the way of the Company Law.”