Bisbee daily review., 1908-05-17

 FEUD HISTORY

The death of Tom Hatfield, the fa- nous mountain feudist, at Louis, iAy., makes about the siXtieth victim of the Hatfield-McCoy feud that began forty-eight years ago as the result of | one of the Mccoy razor-back pigs swimming Tug river from the Mccoy i place on the Kentucky side to the ancestral home of the Hatfields in West Virginia. Tom Hatfield, a de scendent of the terrible Devil AnSe" Hatfield, was the one member of that murderous family who had been supposed to nave a charmed life. He always escaped without a scratch in the scores of murderous battles be tween the Hatfield and Mccoy clans. As they tell it on the Tug river, the war between the Hatfields and Nc Coys began just before the outbreak of the civil war. and it all started over the ownership d Kentuuhy razor-back hog.
 The McCoys at the time were load ing a boat with razor-backs that were consigned to a, Cincinnati pork packer, when one of the pigs jumped oyer the boat railing into Tug user and swan straight for Hatfield tes- ritory The Mccoy negroes were sent over to capture the pig, but they soon returned and told old Ran doiph Mccoy, the head of the Mccoy clan, that the Hatfield negroes had chased the animal into a ravine aIfu held it. Old Rand sent word 70 "Anse" Hatfield that ne wanted his hog back.
 Civil War Delays the Feud.
 It is sad that the McCoys were laying out a plan of battle for the recapture of the pig. when the news that the civil war was on reached the West Virginia-Kentucby noun tsins. All the McCoys sHouldered their guns and enlisted for Ure South. as did most of the Hatfields. Some of the Hatfields. however, it is said. fought for the Union
 When the war ended the Hatnelds that had not been killed in battle and the surviving McCoys came back to their homes, the Hatfields to the West Virginia side and the McCr-5 tc the Kentucky side d the Tug river, and the incident of the pig. as was rapidly proved, had not been for gotten.
 Soon after the warning families re- turned there was an election in WesI Virginia, and the McCoys went across the river to help one of the candidates. In the course of the day three of theMcCoy boys, the youngest only ten, and the eldest, about 20 years. met some of the Hatfields, one of whom was "Bsd Anse." Thel 0 was a fight, and when it was over Anse was dead from thirty-one stab wounds. Latter the Hatfields cap tured the three McCoys. took them to a secluded spot, tied them to trees, and shot them dead
 Compelled Neiahbors to Sign Petition.
 The McCoys being Kentuckians, tme governor of that state demanded that their murderers be returned to Ken lucky for trial. Thereupon the Hat fields got up petition and made all the neighbors sign it. When some refused to do S., tie Hatfiel1s mauts them do so at the muzzle of Win chester rifles. The gov Nernor of West Virginia read this petition and de ciied that the McCoys had treated the I1atfields very shabbily, and they tay.u in West Virginia A few weeks later John Logan and soam Bird. followers of the feudists, were fOund dead on the DanKS or Lne Tug river, each with a bullet hole in lis head.
 So the war went ol. and every now and then news that a Hatfield or a Mccoy had been killed reached the outside world. In 1887 came the bloodiest battles in the history of feud In that year the McCoys. led by Franks Phillips, raided the Hat field stronghold. The fighting lasted a week, and when 1t was over there were several dead on both sides. A few weeks later the Hatfields re- turned the compliment, and raided the Mccoy territory in Kentucky.
 Hatfeids Burn Mccoy Home.
 They went to old Randolph Nc Coy's home at night and, set the house on fire. The smoke drove the McCoys out of the house. and when old Randolph opened the door he met a shower of bullets. With his son. Calvin, the old man retreated into the garret, where they Open-u window and began firing through