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Show USE CLIPPINGS IN MURDERHEARING Prosecution Trie to Show Hatfield Responsible "BY j.. BEAM AN, United PrM Staff Correspondent. WILLIAMSON. W. Vt., Feb. 17. Newspaper clippings were introduced today by the prosecution In the Mat-ewan Mat-ewan battle trial in an effort to prove Sid Hatfield, in Interviews with newspaper news-paper correspondents, took respons.-blltty respons.-blltty upon himself for the fatal fight with Baldwin-Felts detectives last May. On interview quoted Hatfield as say ins; It was a question of ."kill or get killed." Another alleged interview inter-view quoted Hatfield as charging the detect. vps Intended to "cleun up Mat-ewan." Mat-ewan." Hatfield and eighteen others are accused of the murder of Albert t. Kelts, detective, in the revolver clash which cost ten lives May Is. Williamson today had passed safely throuKh the first night in three months without federal troop protection. The , soldiers were withdrawn yesterday. State police (fathered here to pre- ; srve pence patroled the city all night. , No report of disturbances were re- i ceived. |