The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-03-23

one shot from his revolver. This Is a
straight statement Of the feud up to this
day November 81, 1880. Every man
In Logan county who knows ma will
tell you I am peaceful, law.abiding
man, and no man will cay l ever told q
, iasehood. In this contest / have only
defended myself, as any man would do
under similar circumstances.
tsigned) ANDERSON X HATFIELD.
Mark.
With acknowledgement events, newspaper
readers are familiar-how an Interstate
complication Rrewout Of the demand Of
Governor Wilson on the Governor Of
Kentucky for the surrender ot the pris.
oners In the Pike county jail, referred to
In Hataeld's story, and how the compli-
cations were settled by the us. Su.
preme court, sustaining the right OF the
Kentucky authorities to hold the pris.
oners. Ellison Mounts Tor Hattieldl
was afterward hanged in Kentucky.
Before his death he made statement,
from which the following is an extract:
BEwA1LING HIS PATE,
"I don't blame the McCoy's. The
Hatfeld's brought me to this. 1 was
forced to DO as did. Twice they came
alter me with guns, telling me to come
on and take the lives OF those who had
killed my father. l saw his murderers
ahot, and l was at the burning ot the
cabin. I can't so into details. My
guilt was not as great as Aleck Messr's
or Wall Hatfield's or the Whites, who
turned States evidence, Yet my life
pays forfeit, while they are permitted to
live.
"No, 1 do not look for Communication
OF sentence. Nobody seems 10 be doing
anything for me. My lawyers come here
and talk to me; then go away and forget
that an alive"
BORN OUT OF wEDLocK.
The doomed mans parents we're both
Hattields- cousins, who loved not wisely
but too we'll. After being discarded by
her cousin lover, young Ellisons mother
married man named Mounts. Ellison
was mere boy at the time his father
was killed, but at the time Of the shoot.
ing Of Aiiieri Mccoy, for which deed
he suffered death, he had reached
manhood and been married. His wife
has died since his incarceration.
One OF the outgrowths Of the feud was
the lynching, In October, 1880, q Green
Mccoy and Haley by mob OF Lincoln
county citizens.
HISTORY OF THE HATFtRLDs.
From the story given to the ISrEIL1.
eEScRR by Devil Anse, the following
interesting history Of the Hatdelds Is
taken:
"My grandfather, Valentine. Hatfield,
was born in Russell county, Va. My
grandmother, Elizabeth Vance, was ma:
tive OF the same county. Eight boys and
three girls were born TO them. My
father was Ephraim Hatfield, who was
born in Logan county, Virginia, in 1872.
He married Nancy Vance, OF Russell
county, Virginia, in 1857, and to them
were born eighteen children, eight OF
whom died when young. Six boys and
four girls lived to manhood and woman
hood. These six were Valentine, .Ander-
son (they call me Anse), Ellison, Elias,
Smith, Patterson, Martha, Elizabeth,
Emma and Biddy.
"I was born September 8, 1888, and
married Lavisa Chaplin, April lS, 1851.
Twelve children were born to US, Wis:
johnson, William A, usually called
Capt. which nick name was given him
when small boy and has hung 10 him
ever eince Robert E. Lee, Elliott, Elias,
Detroit, Joseph, Willis Wilson. The
daughters arc Nancy B.. who was cap
tured by John T. Vance MSy 10, 1882
the only one OF my family ever captured
by any body dead or alive He meant she
married yanoe), Mary, Elizabeth and
Rosada. ..,
II served in the militia in 1891, and
regularly enlisted in 1852 in the Conted'
crate army, as FirOt Lieutenant in the
Forty.ftith Virginia Infantry. | re-
signed in 1868, and then recruited q COM
pSny which was kept in service in
Wayne, Cabell and other border coun.
| tics Of West Virginia and Kentucky.
"JonRs. Marion and Tom Mccoy (Tho
are now trying to kill mel. were mem
bers Of my company dpriug the war"
ELLlsoN's cosEEssIoA.
During bis confinement in the Pike
county (Ky.) Jail, awaiting his doom
upon the scaGold, Ellison Hatfield sent
| TO the INrRLIIdENcER long confession
over his wn signature. His statements
were voluntary, were dictated by him to
the prcsecuting attorney and created a
great sensation. It's most interesting
featnre5 would make long newspaper
article, and 10 1t Ia cnnitmatory oi
"DsyiI Anse's' stosg 1t is unnecessary
10 reproduce It. Among other things
he described graphically tue scope st
the time the Hattislds and their follow;
ers. intrenched in the mountains OF
logan county, took terrible oath to re-
venge themselves on the McOoys. BE
then details the long list OF bloody
tragedies that followed, and tells minute
lly the story OF the murders 10 Yplnh ne
was directly concerned. In the last
massacre the McCoys suffered tsrr ole
loes in revenge for the murde, Of Edison
Hatfield, Sr. In that tragedy II Was
Young Elllson's own hand that TOOK tne
| he Of the girl AltiGri. He thus describes
the attack on the Mccoy house on the
Kentucky side Of the linei
THRILLING STORY.
We began shooting through the doors
Of what we called the big heuSein oppo.
site directions. There were several shots
Aired from the inside Of the house, and
the shooting continued for some time
, from inside aud out.
calvin Mccoy got upstairs snd shot
. 49,, ~ ors marty lin Vance. ar, went