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idrsrtd.leotv-u-n-it-!S.DETECTIVES PLANNED FRAYTwelve-Year-Old Boy Witness Alleges That Battle Had Been PlottedBy Sleuth.e-e-n-ee3darcoWilliamson, W. Va.—Albert C. Felts, In connection with “whose death 17 i men now are being tried, told one of his associates that his party would “shoot up” Matewan and kill Sid Hatfield, Chief of Police, and Mayor C. C.Testerman, according to the testimony of Troy Farley, a defense witness, before the gun/fight trial jury. Farley, a twelve-year-old youth, who, on cross-examination, said he was a friend of the defendants, testified that he was present when private detectives, working under the direction of Felts, evicted striking miners* fami-rs lies from Stone Mountain Coal Com-?y pany houses. In the late afternoon of at that day, May 19, Felts, six of his comes panions, Mayor Testerman and two a- other residents of the Ijttle mining mining town fell, fata\ly wounded, during a pistol and rifl$ engagement Inthe village street, DUritig the process of eviction, Farley testified, Felts called one of his# associates, C- B.Cunningham, to his side and issued instructions. These instructions, Farley told ^ the jury, h£ overheard. - He repeated the words which he swore heheard Felts, utter as follows: “Get• • • . * - •.!•••your men oftd get ready. Get lined up for down there (Matewan) this eve-, ning. When we go down there we vrillkill Sid Hatfield and Gabel Testermah*We will shoot up the town and kill the organizers, and we will break the strike • break this thing up. If one of our men flinches an iieh, we wlH kill him the same. •e-»e-■a,anli-w-•sserchLg-sead
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Thu, Mar 10, 1921
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