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Show MATEWAN CHIEF OF POLICE IS ACCUSED WILLIAMSON", W. Va.. Feb Sid Hatfield, Matcwan chief of police, told Hurry Staton, a former Justice of the peace, tliat he had killed three of the Baldwin-Felts men In the pistol und rifle fight at Matowan. May 19, , Staton testified today at the trial I of 19 mon, Including Ilatflold. charged with being Implicated In the fight. Asked who the nun were Staton Hald they were Alt.ert Felts, Leo Peita aiul C B. Cunningham. "It was one roar," Miss Bessie Hamilton, Ham-ilton, another witness, thus described the shooting. Afterward yho mild ho saw three bodies lying In the streets. Two of them, she testified, wore1 searched by Sid Hatfield. Later, Miss Hamilton said she saw Hatfield "kipk1 tin; body of a dotectlve- 00 |