Sid Hatfield Takes Out Any Boss

The United Mine Workers Union puts together a propaganda film called Smilin Sid, which they played in camps to help inspire and organize minors. The Baldwin-Feltz detective agency and the surviving Feltz brother were not about to take this lying down. They attempted to frame Hatfield in one of his deputies for the destruction of coal company property at a nearby county where the legal situation was friendlier. In August of 1921, Sid and his deputy arrived in town to go to their trial. And as they stepped up to the courthouse doors,. including that labor spy I was talking about earlier, drove up and just pumped them full of gunfire and killed both men.