Hellraisers Journal: Widow of Mayor Testerman, Now Mrs. Sid Hatfield, Center of Attraction at Williamson Courthouse

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Quote Sid Hatfield, re Evictions per R Minor, Lbtr p11 , Aug 1920———-

Hellraisers Journal – Thursday September 16, 1920
Williamson, West Virginia – Bride of Sid Hatfield Main Attraction at Court

From The Seattle Star of September 15, 1920:

Sid Hatfield Bride, Stt Str p14, Sept 15, 1920

Mrs. Sid Hatfield [Jessie Lee Maynard Testerman Hatfield], wife of Chief of Police Sid Hatfield, of Matewan, West Virginia, under indictment for the killing of Albert Felts, mine detective, in a street  battle last May, is said by many to be the prettiest woman in Mingo county. She was the widow of Mayor Testerman, shot, it is charged, by Felts. She married Hatfield shortly after Testerman’s death. It is said that this was the dying wish of the mayor. Mrs. Hatfield accompanied her husband to court at Williamson and was the center of attraction in the crowded court room during the preliminary hearings of Hatfield’s case.

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Quote Sid Hatfield, re Evictions per R Minor, Lbtr p11, Aug 1920
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/culture/pubs/liberator/1920/08/v3n08-w29-aug-1920-liberator.pdf

The Seattle Star
(Seattle, Washington)
-Sept 15, 1920
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093407/1920-09-15/ed-1/seq-14/

See also:

Jessie Lee Maynard-Marriage Records
http://genealogytrails.com/wva/mingo/jessieleemaynard.html

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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