Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-01-17

being in the country they would kill them
aS they returned to Pike. Then with the
guides above referred to, they proceeded
up Tharkers Creek to NauCe's, where
they found old man Jim Vance and puT-
suaut to a threat made some time
before that old Raudal Mccoy fired
on him and that was followed hy re-
peated shots until the body OF the old man
was torn into ahrrds. and rs | under
stand, with no earthly provoCation. All
that they could say, l suppose was that
he was relative of and friend 10 the Hat
fields
From there they came to tue head OF
island Creek and We can't tell what they
will do next. The reward offered by Gov
ernor Buvbuer has put on the trail Of the
Hathelds a set Of lawlesS men, who not
only have no respect for men, hut brute
like will destroy women and children.
THE COUNTRY Is ALARMED,
and every Que feels that there is 40 securi-
" to htr or property. We are listening
all thc time To hear of other terrible deeds
Later news Just from the
scene and II is true says that Naucc'S
wlte aud Cap Hatfield were with old man
Vance when he was killed They told
Vance and Cap to throw up their hands
and tired simultaneously. Cap made his
escape with slight wound in the head.
Frank Phillips, the officer, walked up and
,rowcd, while two OF the McCOys' shook
bands over the dead body Of Vance. They
then turned and went back to NanceH
house broke his trunk open, took what
money he had and box ut cartridges to-
gythrG with his pistol and gun. They
threw his beds into the yard, cuJscd In,
/ daughter, the only person in the house,
lud told her if she Offered to raise her
hand they would kill her; and from there
they went back to Kentucky.
The men they made guide them
through the mountains say that old Randall
Mccoy intended to kill Cap, cut a slice
Of meat from his body and eat it. This
trouble Is running this county. | tell you
that good, quiet meR are growing desperate
over the brutal murder OF old man Vance.
Il said peuured robbers, murderers and
/ Williams. lOu see for yourself that they
are robbers aud murdrreIS Now that man
/ Phillips ls the man who made the affidavit
I required To obtain rtyuIsItiOu OF the Gov
rruOr ut kentucky that would be hOnOrtd
/ by the Governor ut West Virginia, aud
that affidavit must state that the party
| asked Tor is wanted to subserre the ends Of
/ Justice and Tor no other purpose. His con-
/ duet has shown him to be Il most terrible
creature The people of Logan county are
alarmed aud Indignant. They have 4
right to be when one OF their best citizens,
~ Vance was, Is murdered without cause
or prOyorltion by 4 band OF heathens.
ArFIpAyIrS FILED.
/ "C pom what authority do You state that
/ the HItlelds are innocent OF the charge al
/ burning MrCoy's house and killing his son
aud daughter ,ud upon what authority do
. you state that Cline, OF Kentucky, has re-
,tlcd the trouble and set the Mccoy crowd
ia pursuit OF the Hatlields:'
WHY. upon the ground OF several aili-
duyIt~ sent me, embracing all the charges
:uale by the Logan people against the Ken
urky crowd one OF the atlidayits shows
where each OF the Hattields were at the
time OF the burning OF McCOy's house.
| The atlantis in every case personally
/ know tp be good aud reliable citizens OF
| Logan.
Il suppose there is no truth in the Cat
! lett7burg special to Chicago, published
/ Friday.
None except the statement that Old
! man Vance was brutally murdered by the
/ NrCnr band as stated above in the letter
read 10 you. johnson Hatfield was not
/ present aui the hight WAC entirely one
/ ,led affair
Logan county will stand by the Hat
/ fields t,a mlu. You may look lor in