The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-09-25
By sEIFFRIED d. wBYER,


NEW EORk-'Ono thing tnat
may upset the temporary quiet here
" woman's revenge" telcgraphs
imdred Morris, tne intrepid inter-
national News Service staff cores
pondent. who, after narrowing ex-
perlences on the Logan battlefront,
Is now reporting the second Trigger
triaP ~ the Mingo county court
house at Williamson, w. Va.
Two women OF Mingo brood re-
venge. one is Mrs. Sid Hatfield,
twice made n widow by gun play.
The other is Mrs. Ed Chambers,
widow OF the youngest OF the fifteen
men who, with Sid Hatfield, were
acquitted last March after an eight
weeks trial OF the charge OF having
murdered Detective Albert Felts.
Both we're present when. early last
month, G. II. Lively. the, crack
sleuth OF the Baldwin -Felts Detec-
five agency shot and killed Hatfield
and Chambers on the steps OF the
court house at Welch, w. Va. Lively
had been a star witness against the
defendants in the first trigger
trial"
From tho moment that the
shrewed eyed. aquilline-nosed self
fmfessed union spy had revealed
n, the witness stand the remarkable
gual life he had led for nine years
--as a detective for the coal opera.
tors and a member in good standing
OF the United Mine Workers OF
America--it was, to those who know
the Nlngo temper. merely a question
OF who would beat to the draw
Lively or Hatfield, Lively or Cham.
bers, Lively or any of the other in.
dlcted miners, once they met again
Hatred and Love Primeval.
Hand in hand with hatred in tha
passion wrought country goes love
And the mountaineers love Is a,
deep az their hatred. Utterly un.
affected almost primitive in its man
ifestations IL is the proud, hell-de-
fyng, world-contemptuous sort o
love that stops at nothing. tha
knows neither limit nor law nc!
logic.
Those hill-foh are, for the mos
part, descendants of pioneers tina
crossed the mountains with theil
pack-horses and dogs and rifles +,
hundred and fifty years ago and set
tied In the Virginia wilds. They ar,
essentially children of nature Civil.
nation with its arts and graces and
shamefaced restraint. has made it'll,
'N"'"NN oIAhllb BfpBAts
emotions are as primitive as thel
manners, They are a different breet
from any people on the face of tn
globe. And through the makeup o
almost all of them runs that strang
thread OF duality that makes then
smile with murder in their heart
and grunt and glare when they ar
happy.
TIL loyalty and affection betweei
friends and the passionate ardor be
n tween lovers were peculiarly appar
ent during the trial at Williamson
wnich, by the way, was, in point O
number Of defendants, unique
American court annals. Never befor
had twenty-three men been ar
Iaigned simultaneously upon a muT
Ger charge before the same bar
&tce. Wives and sweethears clun
tederly TO the arms of their men Il
plsoners' row. Women were ais
plentiful among the spectators. Jeer
Misses, handclaps, shouts OF approva
punctuated all hearings. The whol
arsm.
On the first day of the great lega
aFama--January 26-the whol
damned courtroom escaped by
hairs breadth a tragedy which stas
gers Imagination.
Credit or averting It unQuestioT
aoly belongs TO Tom Felts, head
tne Baldwin-Felts Detective agenc
Not until after the hearing was ov,
uld II become generally known thi
practically everyone OF the twent!
thtoe accused were sitting on the az
cuserS benches, armed to the teetl
a1i one Gun, Inust of them ina
.Wo' How many "gats" were bull
ing IN hind pockets among the me
IN the audience cannot he estimatet
\ eut 1t II safe TO say there were se'
ual dozen. In a back room we,
+. haH-dozen regular soldiers belonl
Hg 70 Colonel Herman Halls detacl
= ment' then stationed In Williamso
pgt later withdrawn; each was arm
20 with an automatic. one til
movement by someone might ha'
,ea TO the shooting up" OF the cour
Massacre Avcrted.
someone did make such a NOV
eesht and It was none other this
Nu Hatfield, the young chief OF u
mee OF Matewan, now dead, To
reWs was striding down the ais
rast the benches on which sat Il
%ehty-ihree miners from Matew.
Nnose prosecution he was financil
'he ne men charged with the murd
w hls TWO brothers. Sid Hatfield W
sting at the outer edge OF the fii
NV, Waves Of hot hatred seem
slzzle back and forth betwe
nese two arch-foes. As Felts car
\ arer Hatfield. a slight sneer
lace, suddenly made a Ger
{Nement to his "gnt" pocket a.
tntatlously switched the poslti
one or his weapons.
relts later told the writer that
the tensest moment of his II
., II have ever felt the temptati
~ shoot II was then" he sa
borrower, by the oldest law in I
i,d-the law OF self-defense, I
IL Sns S OF beating your, man to the drI
me drop--I had a perfect rig
M Hatfield right then and the
tnat courtroom. And there 4,
md med a minute when one me
nOse' ever so slight, on Hatfiel
a mH would have sent him whe
. my brothers are"
III oets promptly told the states
II pys what had happened. CAPITA
n Jn.n Avis. his chief counsel. e
Il mug Robert ID. Bailey, sitting