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Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday May 26, 1920
Matewan, West Virginia – Chief of Police Sid Hatfield Arrested
From The Wheeling Intelligencer of May 25, 1920:
MATEWAN, W. Va., May 24.-Sid Hatfield, chief of police of Matewan, Mingo county, and nine others were arrested today and taken to Williamson, where they were arraigned before Judge James Damron of the circuit court, charged with the murder of L. C. Felts and other Baldwin-Felts detectives in the recent Matewan riots.
They waived examination and were released on bond in the sum of $3,000 each.
Among the men arrested with Hatfield were: Reese Chambers, Clare Overstreet, Charle Kiser, Douglas Mounts, [Ed] Chambers, Ezra Fry, Billy Bowmen and two others.
The men were taken to Williamson by Jackson Arnold, chief of the state department of public safety, and other members of the state constabulary.
Other arrests are expected, as fifteen warrants have been issued for miners. Warrants have also been issued for the four surviving detectives who are alleged to have participated in the battle.
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[Emphasis added.]
From the San Francisco Examiner of May 25, 1920
-Defense of town of Matewan from attack of Baldwin-Felts gunthugs becomes “Riot of Coal Miners” in national kept press:
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Mother Jones, Powers of Privilege ed, Ab Chp III
https://www.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/3
The Wheeling Intelligencer
(Wheeling, West Virginia)
-May 25, 1920
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86092536/1920-05-25/ed-1/seq-1/
San Francisco Examiner
(San Francisco, California)
-May 25, 1920
https://www.newspapers.com/image/457513742/
See also:
July 14-Oct 29, 1921 – Senate Investigation
West Virginia Coal Fields
Hearings before the Committee on Education and Labor
U.S. Senate, 67th. Congress, First Session pursuant to S. Res. 80
Senator William S Kenyon of Iowa, Chair
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008610716
https://books.google.com/books?id=EQQ9AAAAYAAJ
Volume 1
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=EQQ9AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PP5
Saturday July 16, 1921 – WDC
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=EQQ9AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA185
Testimony of Sid Hatfield
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=EQQ9AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA205
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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.”