Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-02-18
TO HANG TO-DAY.
ELLISON HATFIELD TO PAY THR PENALTY
P0R MURDER.
History Of the Prghtfal Fsud That Has E.p.
Many Counties in Terror
Por Twsniy-seysn
Years.

PIKEvILLE, KY, February 1.-THE
elimination Of the famous Hatfeld-McCoy
fsud will be reached tomorrow in the Jail
yard here, when Ellison Hatfield will be
hanged for the murder Of Randall Mccoy.
the lesder Of the Mccoy faction. This will
not only be the fret legal execution in
Pike county, but will be the first legal
death suffered by any participant in the
friehtiul feud, which has kept this and ad-
joining counties in terror for twenty-seven
years.
Within the past ten years thirteen mur-
ders, two of them OF helpless women, have
been committed and gone urpunished by
the law within twenty miles Of this place,
and the list of the hurt and MANNED In the
fac.ionsl fights would fill column.
BEGINNING OF THE FEUD.
The great feud began in 1865, when
Captain James Vance, closely related to
the Hatfelds, and who was q Confederate
officer, met and murdered Hiram Mccoy,
a Union soldier, whom be had captured in
q raid.
The story Of the fight which hiss follow
ed would fill a book. The list OF victims
for the past ten years includes BIZ Stsyton,
shot in the back by Sam McCow, nephew
of old Randolph Mccoy; Deacon Ellison
Hatfield, .ehot in the back by Farmer
Mccoy ss he fought with Talbot Mccoy;
Talbot and Farmer Mccoy and Randolph
Mccoy, Jr., shot on the bank Of Tug
river by the Hatfield gang; JEFF Mccoy
shot in the back by Gap Hatfield; Miss
Allaphare Mccoy, shot by Ellison
Mounts as she pleaded fer her life; Calvin
Mccoy. shot in the bick by the Hatfield
gang; Jim Vance, ehot by Frank Phillips
as he resisted arrest; Bill Dempsey, shot
by Frank Phillips after he had been NOR
tally wounded by Jim Mccoy aad was
Begging that he might be allowed tO die in
peace; John Hane, Julia Ann Mccoy and
preacher, whose name is not known, shot
at the home of Miss McCoy's father by tie
Hatfield gang. Hard and Miss Mccoy
were standing mp to be married when the
fatal volley was fired through the window.
Mrs. Talbot Mccoy, who died of grief
after the murder of her husband.
THE MURDER OF ALLAPHARE MC0Y.
The murder for which Ellison Hatfield,
or Ellison Mounts (tor be Is the illegiti-
mate SON OF the old Deacon Hatfeld) is to
be hanged, was q most foul aud cowardly
one, and was committed on New Years
night, 1888 The Hstfelds rsided old
Randall McCoy's cabin in On expedition Of
vengeance for the killing Of one OF the for
mer gang. There was in the cabin Ran
dali Mccoy, bis wife, his daughters, ALA
phare, Addie and Fannie, and his son, Cal
win.
The daughter Allaphare went TO the
door, when the Haifslds demanded that
the old man and his son should surrender,
in her night dress, and declared that there
lieved. Of course.
''Mske a FIRE, then. and show u.s."
cried cut Uncle jim Vance, the Hatfield
leader.
The girl recognized Gaps voice, for
they had formerly been friends, and, hold
ing mp her hands and bursting into tears,
che ssid:
"Csp, can't. / would, deed ! would,
il could. You wouldn't shoot woman
who never did you any harm, would
you?"
what the hell are you psrleyipg with
hs for?" yelled Uncle Jim; God --
her, make no more account Of her than
ycu would Of man. Shoot her, --
herr
Cap raised bis gun to shoot, but Ellison
Mounts, standing alongside, bad bis gun
already TO bis shoulder, and shot tie girl
down as she stood there in her nightgowD.
The ball entered her heart, snd she fell
dead with only moan.
The story OF the battle which followed
between tire McCoye in the cabin and the
Hatfslds, the smoking ont OF the besieged,
the Draining of the old woman, the shoot
ing of Calvin Mccoy, and frslly the escape
Of the old man Mccoy and bis two youpg-
est daughters, forms one Of the most terri
hls chapters in the annals Of the Hatfield
Mccoy crimes II created an immense SEN
sation in Pike county, and led TO the kill
ing of Uncle Jim Vance ana the capture OF
mcst Of the gang. One Of them turned
States evidence and convicted Ellison
Hatfield, who will he hanged.