The Cordova daily times., 1921-09-24
(Continued from Page One)

detachment. then stationed in Will iamson, but later withdrawn; each was armed with an automatic. One tiny movement by someone might have led to the shooting up" of the court room.
 MASSACRE INVERTED Someone did make such move ment, and it was none other than Sid Hatfield the young chief of police of Matewan now dead. Tom Felts was striding down the aisle past the benches on which sat the twenty three miners from Matewan whose prosecuting he was financing the men charged with the murder of his two brothers. Sid Hatfield was sitting at the outer edge of the first row Waves of hot hatred seemed to sizzle back and forth be tween these two arch foes. As Felts came nearer, Hatfield, a slight sheer on his face. suddenly made a jerky movement to his "gat" pocket and ostentatiously switched the position of one of his weapons.
 Felts later told the writer that it was the tensest moment of his life
 "If l have ever felt the tempta- tion to shoot, 1t was then" he said Moreover. by the oldest law in the world-the law of self-defense. the law of beating your man to the draw and drop-I had a perfect right to kill Hatfield right then and there in that court room. And there fol lowed a minute when one more move. ever so slight. on Hatneld's part, would have sent him where my brothers are"
 Felts promptly told the States at torneys what had happened. Captain s. F. Avis his cheif counsel, told Judge Robert D. Bailey, sitting in the case who then gave the "disarma- ment order" which resulted in every man and woman thereafter being "frisked" for weapons before enter ing the courtroom
 The killing of young Chambers by Lively brings to mind the picture of his beautiful young wife. who always sat beside him during the trial. her large, ustrous dark eyes fastened in tently upon the witness. the intorro- gatnE lawyer or the judge
 ENUMERATION AND BLOWS
 It was she who nearly caused whole. sale bloodshed one afternoon. when, at the end of a hearing. as the crowd | filed out of the courthouse. she at tackled Isaac Brewer, ex-defendant. who had turned states witness. Send ing her fist to the jaw of the lanky stx-footer, famous as one of Mingos most dreaded two-eun men. she cried:
 You are a dirty dog You are try ing to get my husband and little brother hanged,"
 Only the timely interference by state troopers prevented a mob scene and massacre. Now her husband is dead. shot by another states star witness. Lively.
 All this is an inherent part of the emotional setting in which the recent March to Mingo" was staged. result ing in bloody fighting and the eventual interference of government troops
 But what was this March to Min go? Was it, as has been hintod, an organized attempt by five or six thou sand union miners to force their way through LaGon County. the "open shop" coal field whose economic i'm portance has been described in pre- yious articles. and "break down" the virtual state of martial law existing in Miugo?
 All the facts brought out thus far tell a different tale. It has been shown that the United Mine Workers of, ficials were and are against such a move and that two of the unions most influential officials Keeney and Mooney, brought all their influence and persuasion to bear to stop the march" Also, events has shown the utter futility of an attempt-organized or unorganized-to force the unionsim upon the Logan fields
 What seems infinitely more proba. ble is that the concentration of these miners arose from the gathering of in dividual groups and that it gradually gained strength and impetus from sub 1 seQuent inflammatory words and ac- l tions.
 The bitterest blood had been created by the killing of Hatfield and Cham.