Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-02-01
ALL QUIET.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF TEE TER
RIBLE HArPrsLD-Moc0y fEUD.
What the Agent Of the Governor OF West
Virgins Learned-Sistory Of
the Trouble.
Especial telegram to The Dispa;ch.l

CHARLESTON, w. VA, January 81
Colonel w. j.. Mahan, the agent whom
Governor Wilson sent to Logan county,
returned last night and was interviewed
by your correspondent this morning,
when the following additional particu-
lars of the Logan county trouble were
CLEANED :
Colonel Mahan left Charleston on the
25th instant, arriving at Logan Court
honse two days afterward. lie states that
he visited all the Hatfields and found
them TO be good, law-abiding citizens,
who have the respect and confidence OF
every one in that neighborhood that
while many depredations have been
committed and the whole surrounding
country has been in a state OF excite
mcnt and tumut bordering on genuine
Young war that peace has again been re-
stored and the belligerent parties on
both sides have disbanded and no further
trouble is anticipated. The strangest
part of the whole affair is the fact that
the Hatfields and McCoys are related.
THE FEUD
between these two factions is an old one,
beginning during the late war. When
the war closed the difficulties between
the Hatfelds and the McCoys seemed
also TO have ceased, but in 1882 Ellison
Hatfield went over into Kentucky to at
tend an election. During that day three
of the McCoys deliberately laid the plans
TO assassinate Hatfield, and they carried
them out by cutting and shooting him
TO pieces
REVENGE.
Before the McCoys could get ont Of
reach they were themselves killed by
some of the Hatfield relations. This
having taken place in Kentucky, the
Hatfelds and great many other citi-
zens of Logan county were indicted in
Pike county, Ky, for the killing of the
McCoys. This WAS in 1882, the same
year Of the killing. After the indict-
ments we're made no further steps were
taken in the matter by the Kentucky au-
thorities and the matter rested until a
few months ago, when parties in Ken
lucky resurrected these old indictments,
went to Frankfort, laid the matter
before Governor Buckner. and had
rewards offered and came over in this
State in guise OF officers of the law,
when in reality they had no requisition,
and arrested Tor rather kidnapped
Thomas Chambers, Andrew Varney,
Shelkirk Mccoy, ID. ID. Mccoy, Moses
Christian, Samuel d. D., and Plant
Mahon, and Valentine Hatfield, took
them over to Kentucky. and placed them
in the Pike county jail, where they are
still confined:
THE SAME PARTY.
This is the same party who came over
into West Virginia on the 9th of Janu-
arv. fired on and killed old man Vance
without as much as calling on him to
surrender, and who again invaded tins
State short time afterward and fired
upon Constable Thompson and posse, at
which time Dempsey and another man
were killed.
SWORN TO KILL.
The citizens of Logan state that had
any parties other than those sent been
called upon to make the arrest no blood
would have been shed, but the McCOys,
who came with Phillips TO arrest them,
had sworn to kill the Hattields, and
would have done so after they were dis
armed Everything is now quiet on the
border, and as the Hatfelds, who are
pretty we'll fixed with this worlds goods,
are selling property and preparing to
leave the State forever, this will proba-
bly, be the last chapter of feud which
has listed for years, aud in which over a
score of lives have been sacrificed.