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SIDKATFIELDSLAIN|
IN STREET BATTLE
Shot by Detective in Gun Fight
in Court House Yard.
COMPANION ALSO KILLED
Former Matewan Police Chief Meets
Death at WeIch, w. Va, and Five
Men Are Arrested

Death at WeIch, w. Va, and Five
Men Are Arrested.
Welch, W. Va, Aug. 2.-Sid Hatfield.
former chief of police of Matewan,
and Ed Chambers, Il policeman Of that
place, We're killed in Il gun fight in the
court house yard.
G. +. Lively, u private detective, and
four other persons were arrested in
connection with the shooting. Lively
was known as the star spy" i'll the
trials of Hatfield and score Of others
in connection with the battle of Mate
man" more than Il year ago.
The former police chief was arrest
ed last week in connection with the
shooting up of the town of Mohawk,
w. Va, about Il year ago, and brought
to Welch. where he was placed in Jail.
Chambers also was to appear in court
in connection with the case.
Hatfield was released on bail and
was with Chambers when they became
involved in quarrel with Lively and
some of his friends. In the shooting
which followed Hatfield and Chambers
were killed.
1t was while Hatfield was chief of
police in the little mining village of
Matewan on May 10, 1920, that party
of private detectives was sent there to
evict miners from houses of the Stone
Mountain Coal corporation. He was
charged with leading the people of the
town, who battled with the detectives
as they We're about to take Il train for
Bluefield, after the evictionS. Ten per-
sons were killed in the fight and Hat
field Chambers and twenty-five others
were indeed
At the trial, which was held at Will
hanson, the county seat of AIin@O Coun-
ty early this year, Lively was one of
the most important witnesses for the
state. He testified he had gone TO
Matcwan soon after the battle and,
opening Il store and restaurant. had
gained the confidence of many of those
mentioned in connection with the shoot
ing. He admitted on the stand he was
in the employ of the Baldwin-FeltS de-
tective agency, some of whose men had
been killed in the fight.
Lively closed his store at Matewan
during the trial, which resulted in the
acquital of Hatfield and his compan-
ions, and his name had not been men
toned in connection with the Ming0
fstluStrial troubles until DOW
Member of one of the most widely
known "feudist families of the Ken
tucky-West Virginia section, Sid Hat
field figured as the "star gunman" in
the trial which grew out of the Mate
wan street battle of May, 1920, in
which Albert FeltS, one of the heads OF
the Baldwin detectives, was kill
ed, along with Mayor c. c. Tester
man.
Shortly after the battle Hatfield
married TeStermans widow, with
whom he had long been in love, and the
prosecution attempted to prove. in the
long trial at Williamson, W. Va, in
February of this year, Hatfield opened
the battle by shooting Testerman, in
order to pave the way for his mar
riage.
Hatfield was only % years old. but
was one of the best known men along
the West Nirginia-kentucky border
He was born in the Matewan section,
and, after going to work in the mines,
became a mine electrician. He early
became interested in politics. and was
chief of police Of Matewan under Ma
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