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Lengthy on what appeared to be a Hatfields & McCoys event...
Lengthy on what appeared to be a Hatfields & McCoys event...
Item # 592281
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October 29, 1889
THE WHEELING INTELLIGENCER, West Virginia, Oct. 29, 1889
* Family feud much like or related to the Hatfields and McCoys... or something more?
* Gruesome killings
* Great title to have
More than the entire first column is taken up with much detail on the family feud between the Brumfield and Dingess families. This is a report of the lynching of Green McCoy and Milt Haley, the former a cousin of the famous McCoy family.
Note: This is the historic (and horrific) event known as The Brumfield-McCoy-Haley Affair, which is discussed in detail via The Smithsonian Institute: A Tale of Fatal Feuds and Futile Forensics. History shows this may have been much more mysterious/significant than a simple feud between families. The Smithsonian opened up an anthropological dig in 2000 to look for clues as to the true nature of the event.
The top of the first column has heads: "THE TERRIBLE VENDETTA" "Details of the Lynching of McCoy and Haley by a Mob Lincoln County Citizens" "Leading Men Implicated in the Bramfield Shooting--Thrilling History of the Feud--The Lynched Men Were Hired Murderers" and other subheads. A portion of the text notes: "...The present trouble has grown out of long standing feuds. Intelligencer readers have been kept pretty well posted as to the several difficulties between Paris Brumfield and Green McCoy. McCoy came from Kentucky some years back and is a member of the now famous McCoy family of Pike County, Kentucky. Whether he has ever taken active part in the Hatfield-McCoy feud is not known. At any rate he was regarded as a desperate & dangerous man..." with more.
Four pages, very nice condition.
Category: Post-Civil War
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