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From Matewan to Welch: One Man's Thirst for Vengeance

From Matewan to Welch: One Man's Thirst for Vengeance From Matewan to Welch: One Man's Thirst for Vengeance William Archer Appalachian Heritage, Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 1992, pp. 9-15 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1992.0058 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438368/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:38 GMT from JHU Libraries From Matewan to Welch: One Man's Thirst for Vengeance William Archer History is full of well-known events and facts, but at the same time it has a side that often remains the secret of the individuals involved. It was exactly this very personal, very secret side of an important piece of his- tory that I stumbled upon on August 22, 1990. Earlier that year, at the end of May, McDowell County (West Vir- ginia) Clerk Paul Lambert had been inspecting the courthouse for water damage when he opened the door of a long-forgotten records room and discovered that it contained court documents pertaining to one of the most famous cases in state history—the trial of Baldwin-Felts detectives who had been accused of the murders of Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers on the steps ofthat courthouse on August 1, 1921. I was excited about this find because most of these http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

From Matewan to Welch: One Man's Thirst for Vengeance

Archer, William.
Appalachian Review , Volume 20 (2) – Jan 8, 2014
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From Matewan to Welch: One Man's Thirst for Vengeance William Archer Appalachian Heritage, Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 1992, pp. 9-15 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1992.0058 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438368/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:38 GMT from JHU Libraries From Matewan to Welch: One Man's Thirst for Vengeance William Archer History is full of well-known events and facts, but at the same time it has a side that often remains the secret of the individuals involved. It was exactly this very personal, very secret side of an important piece of his- tory that I stumbled upon on August 22, 1990. Earlier that year, at the end of May, McDowell County (West Vir- ginia) Clerk Paul Lambert had been inspecting the courthouse for water damage when he opened the door of a long-forgotten records room and discovered that it contained court documents pertaining to one of the most famous cases in state history—the trial of Baldwin-Felts detectives who had been accused of the murders of Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers on the steps ofthat courthouse on August 1, 1921. I was excited about this find because most of these

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