The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-22
cap HATFIELD's VICTIMS.
~ HAS MADE EIGHTEEN MEN BITE
THE DUST.

,,.,a Men on Election Day at the |
THE Chances Are He VIII
a-,,~-First Time He Has Ever
Landed Behind the Bars.
story of the Hatfield-McCoy Feud'
,n tne Baltimore American.
.-4trgton. w. Va, Nov S.-The crime
..-ntcb Can't. Hatfield and his stepson,
10 Glenn. were hunted, and finally
aown. was the murder of three men
'U lection precinct Tuesday afternoon.
Ha,feld went to the polls at rhacker
- y. to vote, and was accompanied by
~. stenson. Joseph Glenn, a lad who has
+ entered his 14th year. Both were
,.,,ipg Winchesters on their shoulders
,.u as revolvers of enormous caliber
a. ..air nockets. They had not been at
nous half a hour until they began
~ dispute with John and Elliott Rnther'
f,rd two natives of that section who
aconn Hatfield claimed had more than
,.oars ago been on the side of the Me-
go during a battle with his relatives.
rnorblA was imminent, and the Ruther-
t,.as started to leave the polls, when
uCaON TdlSeu Ills w AAAOAASSt~A S~AA~ A@-O~- -
hon at John Rutherford, killing him In
stanty Joe Glenn. the 14-year-old step
raised his Winchester and laid low
r,r;ott rutherford Hance Chambers,
,,rominent citizen, rushed forward just
as tbe lad fired. The boy, thinking he
ros friend of the Rutherfords, turned
his Winchester at him and killed him also
ocap' and the boy then turned toward
s,a mountains and walked off uncon-
oarned. No one present attempted to ar
rest them. for the natives knew that 1t
,gas useless, and would only result in more
80 tbair number being killed. Next morn
mo q posse of 100 citizens, heavily armed,
started in pursuit of the murderers, de-
tArmined to effect their capture. No train
of them could be found. and the posse
abandoned the search while on the top
of a large mountain overhanging the Tug
river. 80
occomnanied by Daniel Christian, were
returning to their home, and were pass
ing near a large rock cliff on a hillside,
when they discovered the forms OF two
nersons in a large crevice of the rocks.
Upon going near they discovered 1t was
Can and his stepson, both of whom were
asleep. Their capture was easily made.
and the prisoners were taken to the near
est railroad station, and were brought to
Huntington and lodged in jail, arriving
here early this morning. They were
brought here for safe keeping, as it was
feared they would be mobbed were they
left in Jail there.
Can Hatfield has a record probably I'M
exceled by any other living man. He is
charged with killing eighteen men during
his life, and is now only in the thirty
eighth year of his age. He is a man of
ordinary intelligence, and does not look
to be the desperate he is. 1t is feared
that the citizens of Mlngo county will
form mob and come here with the in-
tention of lynching Hatfield and his son.
but the authorities here are able to cope
with any body which may attempt such
proceedings
During all the wild career of Hatfield
this is the first time he was ever landed
behind prison bars. Hatfield and stepson
sat for picture, and seemed to enjoy the
notoriety which they were getting. The
lad wore suit made of homespun jeans,
and is an innocent looking boy; but peo-
pie of that section claim he is more dar-
ing and brave than any of his ancestors.
Hatfield committed his first murder al
most twenty years ago, when he was
leader of the band which tied two of the
McCoys to a pawpaw bush and assisted
m shooting them to death. His deeds
since that time have been numerous. The
probabilities are now that he has killed
his last victim, for the officials of West
Virginia will likely see that justice is
meted out for the many murders which
have been committed in that wild and
mountainous region.
The Hatfeld-McCoy feud originated be-
fore the breaking out of the civil war It's
immediate cause was the ownership of
two oony and bristly mountain hogs. Over
lnese hogs Anse Hatfield and Randolph
mccoy mad disagreement. They went
TO law, and Hatfield was beaten. The dis
pule was not settled, by any means. All
the relatives of the families took sides, and
the question was intensified. Shortly af-
yer the trial Bill" Stayton, a nephew of
floyd Hatfield, son of witness in the
case, was found dead, with a bullet in his
person. Two of the numerous Mccoy boys
were tried for the murder and acquitted.
soon afterward Jonce Hatfield became
ehamoured of Rosanna Mccoy and kid
mapped her. Matters went along with an
occasional death on either side until 1882
when the hottest kind of hostilities began.
cap Hatfield became the leader of the
hathelds. Election day is always the ia
Vorlte time for a gun fight among the Vir-
elnla mountaineers. In 1882 there was an
election in Pike county In the early
afternoon the inevitable fight cropped out,
ms time between Ellison Hatfield and
talbot Mccoy. When the spectators came
OUT from behind the corner of the grocery
store and from behind sundry trees from
VIM which they had been peeping, they found
Ellson Hatfield lying on the ground dead
several of the McCoys, including a 13-year-
oiu boy, Randolph Mccoy, were arrested
eho confined in the log school house over
night.
Next day the sheriff started through the
tohely mountain woods with the prisoners
ior the Pike county jail. By this time the
esUre Hatfield clan had heard of the death
Vi Ellison. They rallied Immediately
around 'Anse," the patriarch, and cap"
A. hey ambushed the sheriff, who had the
McCoy prisoners in charge. and took mat
els INTO their own hands The sheriff
was released, but the McCoys were taken
lonely log house in the mountains,
~nefe they were tied so tightly with ropes
'Nal heir limbs were practically para
I1ea' On the following morning they
we're marched over the border into Ken
sucky' and tied in a kneeling position to
ssoihe saplings near the margin OF the
oouhdary streams. There was no beg
slHg Tor mercy on the part Of the Nc
NoyS. They Irnalt pr.ff,niv and eneayiu ol y