The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-10-21
4HH HAYEIHLD EHUD,
A Newspaper Reporter at Pike
Vile, Kyp Interviews
THE CONDEMNED HATFIELD
In His Ccll-He Says He is Not as
Guilty as Some othcrs.-ThC Hang
Ing VIII be Publlc-Three
Fresh Feuds Reported.

a Hatfield, blonde OF complexion, dull
gray eyes, which alternately stare ant
blink at vacancy, smooth'faced, will
skin Of ashen hue, couutenauce ant
demeanor which reflect the menta
agony Of one doomed to die yet lnadly
deslrous OF living, Such is Ellison
Mounts, whose right name Is Ellison
Hatfield, as he thrusts his fiuger.Iipl
through the grating Of his cell, aud ex
tends an indifferent greeting to visitor
He cared not to leave the cell, but would
talk OF himself II the newspaper man
would come inside the bars, Lighting O
chimneyless lamp that hung In the
dingy, stiAing cell, he motloned the
visitor 10 seat on a cot, and sat down
beside him.
BgwAILINd his FATE.
"I don't blame the MCCoy's. The
Hataeld's, brought me to this, ! was
forced TO do as did. Twice they came
after me with guns, telling me to come
on and take the lives OF those who had
killed my father. / saw his murderers
shot, and was at the burning OF the
cabin. l can't 90 into details. My guilt
was not as great as AleCk Messer's or
Wall Hat6elds or the Whites, who
turned States evidence. Yet my life
pays forfeit, while they are permitted to
live.
"No, I do not look for Communication
OF sentence. Nobody seems to be doing
anything for me. My lawyers come here
and talk to me; then go away and forget
that am alive"
Dorm OUT OF wEDLoCK.
The doomed mans parents were both
Hatfelds-cousius, who loved not wise
ly, but too well. After being discarded
by her cousin lover, young EIllson's
mother married q man named Mounts
Ellison was a mere boy at the time his
father was killed, but at the time Of the
shooting OF Allaphare Mccoy, for which
deed he Is To suffer death, he had reached
manhood and been married. His wife
has died since his incarceration.
The people OF Pike county, when the
Jury failed TO impose the extreme pen.
atty upon Hatfield, Messer and May.
horns, felt that the hangman had been
cheated. Nor was this sentiment changed
by the Jury returning a verdict OF death
In the case Of the culprit who simply had
been q tool in the hands Of those very
men. Mounts will be executed DeCem.
ber 8. The hanging will be public, and
the event will be one OF the biggest in
the history Of Pikeyille.
NOBODY SHOT AT A WEDDING.
The thrilling story recently sent out
from Tug river Of the killing Of Julia
Ann Mccoy and John Hand as they
stood up to be married is absolutely
false in every particular. Inquiry OF the
McCoys and Hat6elds who still live
along Tug river, developed the fact that
OF all the persons named in the dispatch
but one "a man named Doty) had any
existence. A brother.in.laW OF Doty
was seen. He had heard OF no such
romantic love affair, no such wedding
no RnCh assassination, no such wound.
ing Of Doty.
REV. ANDERSON HATPIELD,
a relative Of Deyil Auce, who enjoys
the widest acquaintance on both sides Of
the river, pronounced the report wholly
untrue.
Still more recently q dispatch dated
Pikeville contained the alleged iniorma.
tion that mob had organized to lynch
Samuel Mayhorn, under sentence OF
death, the friends OF the McCoys being
determined that Mayhorn should not
die a natural DEATH" The untalented
liar who wrote the dispatch got things
badly mixed. Mayhorn Is dying, II Is
true, but he is not under sentence Of
death or anything else, is generally be.
lieved TO DO innocent, and Il ho lives till
court meets the case will be nolle pressed.
OF course the mob had an existence
only in the imagination Of the author
OF the "fake." The latter ID in more
danger OF mob violence than May.
horn. Were bis identity known tile
people OF Pike would give him some.
thing mighty unpleasant TO write about.
THREE PREsH FRuDs.
Since tho elimination Of the Hatfield
Mccoy troubles similar feuds have
broken out in the mountain region Of
Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia.
The Harlan county vendetta, OF which
Wills Howard Ia tho outlawed hero; the
Mullins.Taylor imbroglio over a woman
aud Illicit whisky, involving families In
LetCher county, KY, and Wise county,
Va, and the Bruulheld. Hall difficulty IN
Lincoln county, w. Va.
HEMMRD IN.
ThelateSt information Of reliable ma.
ture from the scene Of tho Brumaeld.
Hall war Is TO the effect that posse ol
West Yirginians pursued the two men
who shot Brumheld, bis vile and son,
across the line into Martin county, Ky.,
whore tho fugltives took refuge In 4
mountain jungle. They are surrounded
however, and their ultimate capture ID
confidently predicted.
wills llowARD's yERsloN.
wills Howard and his gang arc on.
Rageu IN the "moonshine" business in
the Cumberland mountains. From {
Pike county man who recently visited
that section aud took dinner with {
cousin Of wills Howard, tho reporter
learns that since Judge Lewis signal do,
feat by the noted outlaws no attempt
has been made 10 earn the $1,000 reward
offered for his capture. The Howard
version Of the late bloody baltic differs
very materially from that Of Judge Lewis
Instead oithirty men in his party he had
but ave, including himself.
The killing oi one Of Judge Lewis NOR
is thus desCflbedI Feeling that ie wa
about 10 DO oyeftAken he threw away hlI
gun, and, turning around, rode delIber
Gtly up 70 the approaching de6peradors
Being halted BY them, he pretended 4
be farmer golng about his business
lio was allowed 70 depart, and his bOlt
tuse would have been BucCesBiui bad no
! the outlaws found his gun aud suspectet
his true identity. They rode back aile
him, and after q chase oitwo mlleb over
took and Bhot him 10 pieces.
THE CROSlS CASE