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Sid Hatfield (1893–1921) was Police Chief of Matewan, West Virginia during the Battle of Matewan, a shootout that followed a series of evictions carried out by detectives from the Baldwin-Felts agency. Hatfield had intervened on behalf of the evictees, all miners. While Hatfield was held in high regard by the United Mine Workers of America for his actions, the Baldwin-Felts agency targeted Hatfield.

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  • Sid Hatfield
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  • Sid Hatfield (1893–1921) was Police Chief of Matewan, West Virginia during the Battle of Matewan, a shootout that followed a series of evictions carried out by detectives from the Baldwin-Felts agency. Hatfield had intervened on behalf of the evictees, all miners. While Hatfield was held in high regard by the United Mine Workers of America for his actions, the Baldwin-Felts agency targeted Hatfield.
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  • Sid Hatfield
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  • Murder
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  • Police Chief
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  • 1921(xsd:integer)
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  • 1893(xsd:integer)
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  • Sid Hatfield (1893–1921) was Police Chief of Matewan, West Virginia during the Battle of Matewan, a shootout that followed a series of evictions carried out by detectives from the Baldwin-Felts agency. Hatfield had intervened on behalf of the evictees, all miners. While Hatfield was held in high regard by the United Mine Workers of America for his actions, the Baldwin-Felts agency targeted Hatfield. Hatfield was indicted on murder charges stemming from the shootout but was later acquitted by the impartial jury. He was sent to stand trial with Ed Chambers on conspiracy charges for an unrelated incident and was set to stand trial in Welch, West Virginia. Hatfield was unarmed when several Baldwin-Felts men shot and killed him on the McDowell County Courthouse steps. Reports from that time say that the unarmed Hatfield had seventeen bullets in him. None of the Baldwin-Felts detectives was ever charged in Hatfield's assassination. This caused an outpouring of grief for the fallen local hero at the funeral. It was one of the causes of the stem of outrage that led to the Battle of Blair Mountain.
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