Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1909 — ELOPER HATFIELD PUNISHED [ARTICLE]

ELOPER HATFIELD PUNISHED

Kentucky Feudist Refers to War Record In Appeal to Court. Lob Angeles, Nov. 5.—J. W. Hatfield, survivor of the Hatfield-McCoy feud, has been sentenced to five years in prison for eloping with fourteen years old Pearl Eastman. Ih court he said; "My father was killed from ambush and my mother has no support but me. -Lserved in the Spanish war as a rough rider and was at San Juan hill. I ask a light sentence so that I may become a good citizen again, support my mother and marry this girl when I come out.”