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Hellraisers Journal – Friday October 28, 1921
Washington, D. C. – Wives Charge Mine Guards with Cold-Blooded Murder
From the New York Daily News of October 26, 1921:
From the Baltimore Sun of October 26, 1921:
(From The Sun Bureau.)
Washington, Oct. 25. -Mrs. Sid Hatfield and Mrs. Ed. Chambers today charged mine guards of the West Virginia operators with cold-blooded murder of their husbands both of whom were conspicuous in the Mingo county mine war and were among the acquitted defendants in the Matewan murder case. Hatfield and Chambers were killed recently at Welch, W. Va.
The two black-garbed widows testified before the Kenyon committee, which is investigating the mine war. Their testimony that their husbands were shot down while walking with them up the Courthouse steps in Welch followed immediately testimony from Attorney-General E. T. England, of West Virginia, that mine guards in Logan county beat and shot men down, drove out of the county visitors regarded as undesirable, including union organizers; practiced intimidation at the polls, interfered with the processes of justice and generally ran roughshod over the community…..
[Emphases added.]
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Sallie Chambers re Murder of Hatfield & Chambers
-Blt Sun p2, Aug 5, 1921
https://www.newspapers.com/image/373390606/
Daily News
(New York, New York)
-Oct 26, 1921
https://www.newspapers.com/image/410347831/
The Sun
(Baltimore, Maryland)
-Oct 26, 1921
https://www.newspapers.com/image/373086008
See also:
Oct 26, 1921, Baltimore Sun-Jessie Hatfield & Sallie Chambers Testify bf WVCF Sen Com, WDC Oct 25
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87970589/oct-26-1921-baltimore-sun-jessie/
West Virginia Coal Fields
Hearings Before the Committee on Education and Labor
U.S. Senate, 67th. Congress
-Senator William S. Kenyon of Iowa, Chair
Printed for the use of the Committee on Education and Labor
WDC, 1921
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008610716
https://books.google.com/books?id=EQQ9AAAAYAAJ
Volume 2 – Oct 24-29, 1921, WDC
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=EQQ9AAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA602-IA1
October 25, 1921 – WDC
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=EQQ9AAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA691
WV Attorney General E. T. England
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=EQQ9AAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA719
Mrs Sid Hatfield
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=EQQ9AAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA731
Mrs Ed Chambers
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=EQQ9AAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA737
Photo Jessie and Sallie, dated Sept 21, 1921
https://wvhistoryonview.org/image/004163.jpg
Note: this date appears to be in error. Photo from Daily News above is first found published in newspapers of the day. Widely published after that. See, searches:
Sept 18-24, 1921
Nothing to suggest Widows Hatfield and Chambers in WDC.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?dateFilterType=range&date1=09%2F18%2F1921&date2=09%2F24%2F1921&language=&ortext=&andtext=chambers+hatfield&phrasetext=&proxtext=&proxdistance=5&rows=50&searchType=advanced&sort=date#tab=tab_advanced_search
Oct 18-30, 1921
Many articles re testimony bf Sen Com in WDC
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?dateFilterType=range&date1=10%2F18%2F1921&date2=10%2F30%2F1921&language=&ortext=&andtext=chambers+hatfield&phrasetext=&proxtext=&proxdistance=5&rows=50&searchType=advanced&sort=date#tab=tab_advanced_search
More photos “Chambers” &/ “Hatfield”
https://wvhistoryonview.org/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_field=all_fields&q=chambers
https://wvhistoryonview.org/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_field=all_fields&q=sid+hatfield
Tag: Jessie Lee Maynard Testerman Hatfield
https://weneverforget.org/tag/jessie-lee-maynard-testerman-hatfield/
Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday October 19, 1921
West Virginia’s Attorney General Puts Blame on Company Gunthugs
https://weneverforget.org/hellraisers-journal-w-v-attorney-general-england-blames-gunthugs-employed-by-coal-operators-for-lawlessness/
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Sid Hatfield-The Southern West Virginia Coal Wars
Written by David Grubb and Alan Johnston
Sung by Alan Johnston and Jessi Shumate