Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-29
Mrs. Hatfield Says Lively
Did Not Kill Husband,
Says She viii Not Testify
at Trial
BY NORRIS QUINN

MATEWAN, w. Va.-IWlce d
widow within fourteen months!
Wife of two men, both shot to
death in West Virginia's bloody mine
feud!
That's the tragic history of the
proprietress Of the little ice cream
parlor across from the Matewan rail-
way station.
This woman Of "a was the. wife
Of Sid Hatfield, police chief of Mate.
wan. Earlier she was the wife of
G.. c.. FISHERMAN, mayor of Matewan.
Her deep black eyes sparkle with
life. Her dark. brown hair is care
fully arranged in a modish. coiffure.
She wears a plain black silk gown.
mo" she said, "I'm not going to
testify when they try the men that
killed Sid!
"That is, unless Sheriff Bill Hat
field and Governor Morgan promise
me safe conduct to and from the
COR unless Uncle Sans troops
come into Mcdowell county before
the trial starts.
why, otherwise, I'm afraid they'd
Story of Shooting
Then she told for the first time
her story of the WEIGH courthouse
shooting which resulted in the
death of Sid Hatfield and his friend,
Ed Chambers.
answer charge of being, involved
in the Mohawk Valley shooting" she
said. "He was innocent, but he
went to stand trial as any law-abld-
ing citizen should.
II went with him and so did Ed
Chambers and Mrs. Chambers. Ed
went as a witness for Sid.
"Sid wasn't looking for any trou-
BILE. He didn't carry any guns,
though he had state permit
| to carry weapons. He put one gun
in our suitcase and gave the other
1--WE were walking up the court
| house steps when the shooting start
ed. People say Sid saw c. E. Lively
| a Baldwin-Felts detective, on The
steps; that Sid pulled his gun :, t t.,
| Sid in self-defense.
Clears Lively!
well, I know that Lively dldn
shoot Sid!
"Thirteen men on the courthouse
more than rs bullet holes in .Sid's
body when he fell: Sid never knew
| what had happened"
| That's an entirely new story. In
every mountaineer's cabin in Wes'
Virginia. at every crossroaSds+ store tore
| you IL uSdI pOOpAO soy
| WEIGH shooting grew out of feuc
between Hatfield and Lively. Live
ly was arrested in connection with
| the shooting. He is now out under
bond. He was never indicted. The
| grand jury has not met since the
| killing.
"PlI never marry again." Mrs
Hatfield said. you see 1 married
| Mr.. FISHERMAN when I was 10. He
was 10 years older.
HE was killed with 10 others II
| the shooting at Matewan May ~
| 1920, after discharged miners were
| evicted from their homes by Bald
| Win-Felts detectives.
| GAIL Loved Sid"
| "Then I married Sid. really
loved Sid and I can never love an
other man. Of course, loved Mr.
FISHERMAN, too. but he was more
| of a father to me than husoano
Everyone, loved Sid; He was
| noble and kind-hearted. He gave
| half he made to the sick and poor
| He loaned to everyone who needec
money. He gave regularly te
| churches.
| THAT'S why the mine workers are
| going to put up big monument &c
| Sid in Charleston, the state capital
| where everyone can see 1T.
| 'I'm not afraid of Sid's enemies
so long as 1 stay here. Because
| And Mrs. Hatfield glanced at g
| revolver on the counter behind the
| soda fountain.
| Copyright. 1921, by Newspaper
| FnterDriSe,)