Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-06-30

VedIed the story. James AIJuuA plOo-
porous North Carolina planter had killed
his nearest friend IN a moment of intense
anger. He had fed to the mountains
to hide his crime, and here deserted, save
by his faithful dogs had surrendered up
the blood stained life which he tried so
long to hold.
CARPENTERS CAREER.
While the natives usually avoided these
men. few had talents and ability which
gave them positions of influence. To TINS
class belonged Carpenter, who instigated
and was the prime mover N the lynchlne
of the Mccoy boys. One afternoon IN the
spring of 1886, he arrived at the little vii
Iage of Warfeld, from the direction OF
Louisa Court House. He crossed into Vest
Virginia, and located nj the Mouth OF
Mate where he solicited and obtained en-
ployment. Carpenter was man OF mag
nifcsnt physique, and entered heartily
into all the sports of the mountain Lads.
Can Hatfield was the only one Of his com
petitors who could bring down squirrel
from a higher tree, or WAS
Quicker shot than the handsome stranger.
/ To these elements Of popularity, Carpenter
added others which seemed little less than
miraculous to the people who surrounded
him. He became a leader IN every game
and merry making. A party Of young
men clustered about him and their
wild freaks of dissipation IN the succeed
| ing winter and spring, were the subject OF
general comment. Carpenter taught school,
and added to mis- influence, but not even
10 his nearest friends did he ever breathe
a word as to his past life OF his motive for
seeking g home in the wilderness. Once
drunken companion attempted to question
him before a crowd. Carpenter at first
Warded of his questions, and then blow
from the butt OF his pistol Quoted
his tormenter, and left him scar
red for life. Such was this man, when
Ellison Hatfield was killed by the Nc
Coys and his slayers were taken prisoners.
They were kept on West Virginia soil for
few days, and one night were placed
under guard, with Carpenter IN command,
and started for Pike county jail. When
Tug river was crossed, Carpenter called a
halt. and proposed that all three men be
shot then and there.
The older members of the party insisted
that their original design should be carried
out, but they were out numbered. The
hot blood of Carpenters followers was
heated to the boiling point, by the death
of their kinsman, and the arttul desperate
had little trouble in leading them
on to the slaughter. He carried the
day. The men were tied together, led to
a little bush, and a dozen shots fired into
them. With his own hand Carpenter blew
out the brains of the youngest Mccoy, as
he lay on the ground, dying from dozen
wounds.
CARPENTERS FLIGHT.
The outrage awakened the vengeance !
the whole Mccoy family, and their wrath
was primarily directed at Carpenter
Many of the relatives of the men he had
slain lived on the West Virginia side OF
the Tug: hundreds Of others were IN strlk-
ing distance in Kentucky. 1t was death
TO remain, and so within month after
the murder of his three defenseless prison
ers Carpenter fled, and his face has never
since been seen on the banks of the little
mountain stream. Whether be escaped or
whether be fell victim to the vengeance OF
some Mccoy will probably never be
known.
JOE GLENN'S DEATH.
Not farmers wife in the Valley of the
Tug but could tell a dozen stories Of the
adventures of the laWless element that
fled to the ssfe haven Of the border COM
munity. Carpenters case is not an isolated
one. Joe Glenn was another OF the retu-
gees who became an influential citizen
Glenn arrived in 1879. He had plenty OF
money and was a shrewd business man.
His store Mt the forks of Mate soon become
the centre of the business and social life OF
the valley. The farmers came to it for
their monthly supply of groceries, and
learned what little was to be learned OF the
news from the great outside world. Glenn
married, and became the head Of a
family, but he was still noted for
his wild and reckless disposition.
One dav he became involved in
DISPUTE with man named Baker and shot
him dead az he stood in his store. Baker
had many friends, and Glenn went armed
continually in expectation OF attack. A
week later he was shot dead from ambush
as he walked from his store to his house.
These and many similar tales of blood
make mn the history of the country in the
past few years. The majority OF THESE
crimes we're committed OF provoked by the
criminals who had fled from justice IN other
lands. The world made no distinction be-
tween this criminal class and the native
inhabitants, and the mountain territory
became another dark and bloody ground.
RepOrts of crime coming to the world were
magniied in the passage, and so when h
nalIv the smouldering flames of the Hat
field Mccoy feud burst forth into fire the
public readily accepted exaggerated and
preiudiced accounts Of the events which
resulted from it.
The story of the Hatfeld-McCOy feud
has often been told in fragments, but
many a link has been left out Of the COM
pleted tale. Just opposite the point
where Peter creek empties its waters into
Tug river, Anderson Hatfield, the central
figure of the war, owned and cultivated a
magnificent bottom farm. The house is
now occupied by tenant Of the land
speculator to whom Hatfield sold his
property, when the repeated raids OF the
McCoys forced him to flee from his home,
and take refuge in the interior. From its
door the correspondent of the REGISTER
conId see in dozen different
directions little clearings that marked
the homes of Anderson Hatheld's
friends and relatives. The most
Of them are gone, but few remsin in the
places where they were born and reared 10
manhood and womsnhood. In the spung
of 1882 five of Anderson Hatheld's ten
children were grown. Johns and Cap, his
Oldest sons. were married, and lived on
farms their father had sold them on Grape
vine creek, few miles distant. A daugh-
ter was married to French Ellis, prosper
Gus farmer whose land nearly adjoined his
father-in-law's, and the remaining chill
dren lived at home aud assisted their iatn-
er in the daily round of rural duties. SIX
,,;lee av-av an Roach creek lived Wall