Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-09
A BROKERS' DEATH,
SURROUNDED WITH MYSTERIOUS
CIRCUMSTANCES.
As Usual, there Is q Woman in the Case
Sensational Evidence of the Dead
Mans Mistress-Police Think He was
Murdered by Jealous Husband.

New YORK, May 9.-Another mysterious
murder is to be added to the long criminal
calendar of the Metropolitan city, Yester-
day the dead body of Nathaniel w. t.
Hatch, a banker and broker at IA Nassau
street, was found by workman in the yard
in the rear OF No. "a West Twentieth street.
The story of how he came to his death
can not be told, but there is the story of
Mrs. Lillian Scofield, q richly dressed and
handsome woman of about thirty years, to
suggest a suspicion of murder actuated
by jealousy.
Mrs. Scofield was taken to the West
Thirtieth street police station, after the
discovery of the body. Size and her hus-
band, Charles w. Scofeld, live in apart
ments at the address given. Mrs. Scofield
said she dined with Hatch, last night, at a
restaurant in West Twenty-seyenth street,
place known as Nine. Fanny's. II was
within half an hour of midnight when they
left the restaurant, and MIR. Hatch accom-
panied her home Arriving there she in
vited him in, she said, in order to show
him her apartments. Mr.. Scofield was at
that time asleep in the back parlor, but
was aroused by the movements OF his wife
and Hatch. The latter was hastily con-
cealed in a room on the second floor, and
Mrs. Scofield turned to meet her husband.
Scofields jealousy was aroused to hot
pitch, and he questioned his wife in a most
violent way concerning the man who had
been with her. She steadily refused to
give the mans name and insisted that be
had left the house. There was lively
quarrel between husband and wife, which
only ended when Scofield left the house.
The woman heard nothing more. She
searched the room where she had lett
Hatch, but could not find him there or in
any of the surrounding apartments and
thought he had left the house.
She retired and knew no mere of the
broker, or what happened in the night,
until the body was discovered in the yard
in the morning. Mrs. Scofeld was pale,
but told her story with the utmost calm
ness to Sergeant Schmittberger, giving evil
dence of no agitation. The husband,
Charles W. Scofield, was also taken to the
station house. He was formerly broker
and in good circumstances. He has been
away from home for a considerable time.
He told the police that he had had cause on
several occasions to doubt his wife's fideli-
ty. Scofield and his wife were held at the
polioe station to await the action of Deputy
Coroner Scholer. who had been notified of
Hatch's death. The skull Of the dead man
was fractured.
Mr.. Hatch was member of the firm of
Walter I. Hatch & Sons, bankers and
brokers, at IA Nassau street, and was the
eldest son OF the senior member of the
firm. He was thirty-three years old and
lived with his wife in q handsome and well
furnished house, at 36 West Fifty-third
street. Until a few years ago, he resided
in Brooklyn, where his wife was one of the
most prominent ladies in society on the
heights.
Mrs. Scofield is large and fine looking.
She is also very intelligent and altogether
equal to the emergency. She speaks calm
ly of her friends death as "a very sad af-
fair" According to her story. she has
long been dabbing in stocks in Wall street,
usually through the Office of W. T. Hatch
q Sons (she carries number of stock certi-
ficates on her person to prove its though
she occasionally patronized l. & S. Worm
ser, of Is Broad street. Also, according to
her own statement, when she did this she
was in the habit of telling her friend, Mr..
Nathaniel Hatch, what the Wormsers
bought and sold and what they gave her in
the way of advice. One of these occasions
occurred yesterday, preceding the brokers'
violent death by few hours.
The generally accepted theory is that
Hatch was killed by falling from the bath
room window while trying to escape, al
though the police affect to believe that
there was fight between Scofield and
Hatch, and that the latter was thrown out
of the window