The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-02


sons "Oap" and "Johns" have moved Int
Logan Court House, while others hav
gone across into Virginia, until the Pix
county authorities shall have had time :
"file the indictments" against them.
THE DEMoH OF THE PROSECUTION.
The demon OF the prosecution, however
is Perry Cline, the uncle Of the murdereC
JEFF Mccoy. He is prolific Of resources
patient, brave and untiring. He ven
into the Hatfield settlement and saineC
all the facts in relation to the murder o
his nephew. Tall, gaunt, with long blRch
hair and beard, with face across which
consumption's signature is written, broRG
and deep, he appears the very spectre o
vengeance. instead ef o man trying to sp,
psase the angry demands Of blood and
give peace 10 q distracted community.
WARNED BY THR HATPIEIDs.
Recognizing his abilities and fearing hi
pursuit, the Hatfelds sent him the follow
ing last August:
LOGAN O. H., W. Va, August %, 1887.
PGry Glue. PtbeViue, Ky.
My name Ia Nat Hatfield. am not &
single individual by good many, and We
do not live on Tug river, but We live al
over this county. We have been told by
men from your county that you and your
men are fixing to invade this county for
the purpose OF taking the Hatfield boys,
and now sir, we A., in number at present,
do notify you that II you come into this
county to take or bother any Of the Hat
deld1, we Will follow you to hell or take
your hide, and II any Of the Hatfelds are
killed or bothered in any way, we will
charge II up to you, and your hide will pay
the penalty. We are not bothering you
and neither are the HRtHelds, and as long
as you keep your hands of Logan county
men, we will not do anything, but II you
don't keep your hands of our men there
is not one Of you that will be left in ak
months. There is present at this time 40
Of the men who regulated matters at this
place 8 short time ago and we can get aa
many as We need in six houu. We have
q habit OF making one-horss lawyers keep
their boots and We have plenty OF good,
strong i.rope left from hanging WilliSms,
and our hRDgman tied knot for you and
laid II quietly awGy until we see what you
do. We have no particular pleasure in
hanging dogs, but We know you and have
countsd the miles and marked the treO.
Yours peacefully go long as you keep
hands of, but with hell in our necks as
soon ss you make the brake.
PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OF THR LOGAN
COUNTY REGULATORS.
Mr.. Cline disregarded the threat and OF
his instance new regulations were Issued
and additional rewards offered.
GOV. WILSON'S INTEREST.
The conduct OF Governor Wilson, o.
West Virginia, in the matter all through
hss, the correspondent alleges, beer
strange. He has had the regulations
from Governor Buckner since last Septem
Der, but has refused TO issue warrants fol
the apprehension OF the men named in
the demand. Logan, Mcdowell, Wayne
and other counties abutting on the Ken
tuCky and Old Virginia State lines are eli
Democratic. The Hatheldg are Demo
Gratis, and sasily sway Logan and Nc
Dowell counties. John B. FLOYD, Of tht
State Departmental Charleston, is an attor
ney for the Hsttields. A United States SenR
tor is to be elected next year and GovernoI
Wilson is 8 candidate to succeed Senator
Kenna. The State is close and will b.
closer.
The ordering out Of the troops was not I
sincere move on the part Of Governor
Wilson. 1t was a mistake on his part
He knows thRt troops could do no good IL
the mountain passes OF Logan, or in thI
defiles Of The hills snd mountains, or II
tue narrow bottoms Of the Tug and its in
fluent Creeka. Special detectives must Dc
the work. Governor Bncknef's Ignorance
Of the country must also be co-equs
with Governor Wilson's insincerity In thI
matter, or he would not have Issued hi
call. Patient detective work is the only
solution and none Of the fskirs o
Charleston, Fairmont, and other Wes
Virginia towns should be employed
Twenty or twenty-five trained men woulC
arrest the suspected parsons without
noise or comment and land them in thei
proper prisons.
TIE GANas AND THRIR DIFFERENCES.
There is a gang in West Virginia band
ed together Tor the purpose OF murder ant
rapine. There is q gang in Kentuck!
whose cohesive principle Is the protection
OF families and homes Of man and women
An unresisting family has been deprived
OF five Of its members, father and nothe
Of FIVE OF their children, their homeI
burned, their effects sent up In smoke
their little substance scattered to thl
wind, themselves forced out at midnigh
as wanderers on the bleak and inhospita
BILE mountain side, almost naked in thC
blasts Of winter. A mother stands by ant
sees her son killed before her very eyeI
without being allowed to speak to him
Farms are destroyed, religious meeting
are broken up, mon and women whipped
State and county elections interfered witt
and terror holds complete sway. tn re
press the gang that has committed 81
these crimes was the Kentucky gang OF
ganizsd. These are the gangs, their re
speCtive histories, obiects and achieve
menis.
have set forth nothing but what 1 hav
obtained by careful investigation, 01
tenuRted nothing, magnifed nothing.
am confident that everything in the mat
ter OF statement OF fact and incident 10 col
rect. have talked with scores, adhCIent
OF both sides, and have given the sui
stance Of their atatements. Many reiuee
to allow the use Of their names, fearing tn
yengsnce Of the HRtields.
CHARLES 6, HowIL.
Gov. Wilson's Regulation.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, Feb. l.-Tr.e civ
authorities have now hold OF the rel nnant
OF tho Hatfield-McOoy ieud, and upo
. petition from win Floyd, a cisizsn :