McDowell County Courthouse
On Monday, August 1, 1921, Sid Hatfield and his former deputy, Ed Chambers, along with their wives, arrived at the McDowell County courthouse in Welch, West Virginia, to face trial on charges they conspired to shoot up a coal tipple in Mohawk.
Around noon that day, as the four of them were going up the steps to the courthouse entrance, they were attacked by Baldwin-Felts men in retaliation for the deaths of several Baldwin-Felts agents, including Albert Felts, in Matewan the year before.
Sid Hatfield was killed instantly after being hit several times in the arm and chest. Chambers was wounded. One of the Baldwin-Felts men present, Charles Everett Lively, then came forward and shot Ed Chambers in the head, finishing him off, in the presence of a crowd that had gathered after the first shots had been fired.
