Wichita eagle., 1888-05-09
A Broker Finds Death in Seeking
to Escape From q Jeal-
Gus Husband.
Successful Escape From Jail Of William
Showers, Under Sentence OF
Death for Murder.
An Officer of the Law Fatally Shot-Boiler
Explosion at Manchester. n. L.
Other Casualties

er. at No IA Nassau street, was 1ouno tnls
morning by workmen In yard on the
rear of 46 West Twentieth street.
The story of how he came to his death
cannot now be told, but there Is story OF
Mrs. Lillian Scofeld, richly dressed and
handsome woman scf about 30 years, to
suggest the suspicion of murder, actuated
by jealousy.
Mrs. Scofeld was taken to the West
Thirtieth street police station soon after
, the discovery of the body. She and her
husband, Charles w. Scoheld, live In
apartments at the address given. Mrs.
Scofeld said she dined with Hatch last
night at restaurant In West Twenty sew
enth street, place known as mime. Fan
ny's." 1t was within half an hour Of mid
night when they left the restaurant, and
MT. Hatch ACCOMPANIED her home. Ar
irving there she invited him In In order to
show him her apartments. Scofleld 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. Scofeld returned to her room.
pitch, and he questioned his wife In most
violent way concerning the man who had
been with her.
She steadfastly refused to give the mans
name and insisted that he had left the
house. There was lively quarrel between
the husband and wife, which only ended
when Scofield left the house
The woman heard nothing more. She
Il L. ehn bod Lift
Hatch, but could not find him there nor in
any of the surrounding apartments, and
thought he had left the house. She re-
tired and knew no more of the broker, or
what happened In the night, until his body
was discovered In the yard this morning.
Mrs. Scofield was pale, but told her
story with the utmost calmness to Sergeant
Schmidtberger, giving evidence of no agi-
tation. Her husband, Charles W. SEQ
field, was also taken to the station house.
He was formerly broker and in good
circumstances He has been away from
home for considerable time. He told the
police that he had cause on several occa-
sions to doubt his wife's fidelity.
Scofeld and his wife were held at the
police station to await the action of Deputy
Coroner Scholer, who had been notified
of Hatchs death. The skull of the dead
man was fractured. Hatch was a member
of the firm of Walter T. Hatch & Co.
Mrs Sco1eld 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
affair" According to her story she has
long been dabbling in stocks in Wall
street, usually through the Office Of W. T.
Hatch & Sons. She carries any number of
stock certificates on her person to prove 1t,
although she occasionally patronized l. &
j. Wormser, of 1873 Broad street. Accord
ing 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
lnese occasions occurred yesterday, pre-
ceding 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 make his es
cape, although the police affect to believe
there was a fight between Scofeld and
Hatch, and that the latter was thrown out
of the window
Coroner's inquest was held this after
noon aud Mr.. and Mrs. Scofeld were ex-
amIned. From their testimony 1t was evil
dent that Hatch was killed by fall from
the bath room window while trying to es
cape from the husband of his friend, Mrs
Scofield.
The prisoners were therefore released.
ESCAPED DETECTION, BUT HOW?
LEBANON, Pa, May S-William Show
ers, under sentence of death for murder of
his two grand children, escaped from the
jail here some time during last night. His
cell was discovered empty between 5 and 6
o'clock this morning. He dug hole
through tee solid stone wall and lowered
himself from the opening with rope made
from pieces Of blanket
Showers is 20 years old, and how to es-
cape detection in the town after his escape
from prison is great mystery, as the jail
Is situated In the very heart Of the city.
The aged prisoner must have been digging
at the wall for some time past,
He left behind him two letters, one sd
dressed TO his counsel and the other bid
ding defiance to the people who have
threatened to lynch him
- ia I Al NAY.
DEwEEsE, Neb., May S.-Constable
Jenkins endesvored yesterday to arrest
three men who were hunting In the village
limits. Drawing his revolver he ordered
them to drop their guns, Two complied,
but the third, Ed Davis. refused. Jenkins
then fired two shots at Davis, one passing
through his ear and the other carrying
away his hat Davis raised his shot gun
and emptied both barrels into Jenkins
breast, fatally injurlng him.
Davis has been jailed.
ESCAPED FROM kIONAPERS.
Cisco, Tex, May S.-Harry Ascue, who
was thought and reported to have been
murdered last Thursday night, turned up
at home Friday night and reported that the
two men that his wife saw riding after
him captured him and carried him in
southwest direction In the direction Of Pa
10 Pinto county. After they had travelled
some twenty miles they came to mounts-
nous country, and as they were passing
through narrow gap between two noun |
tains, and passing up steep bank, his |
horse wheeled around leaving him behind |
his captors, and as it was very dark he |
jumped off and took TO the woods afoot |
and made mis- escape. As soon as he was /