premise: William Sidney "Sid" Hatfield (May 15, 1891 or 1893 – August 1, 1921), was Police Chief of Matewan, West Virginia during the Battle of Matewan, a shootout that followed a series of evictions carried out by detectives from the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency.
hypothesis: William Hatfield did not survive the Battle of Matewan.
reason: The text does not imply when the battle took place nor did it describe how the police chief died.