The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-20
IN NEW YORK CITY,
Involves Some Names Famil-
lar to Salt Lake.
MIR. HATCH's STRANGE DEATH.
Long-suffering scOfieid, "Daisy" Mrs.
ScOfisld and "DaDdY' Brother
in.Law Ferris.

Charles W. Scofeld is a name once
pretty well known in the financial
history of Utah. So when that name
occurred in sensational dispatch from
New York, printed in The HERALD of
May 9th. and detailing how prominent
New York banker and broker, Nathaniel
w. T. Hatch, had been found dead in
Mr.. Scofeld's back yard, and how Mr.
and Mrs. Scodeld had been arrested on
suspicion of being connected with his
death, there was at once the liveliest curl
osity and speculs ton in Salt Lake. When
il was announced by THE HERALD a few
DAYS later that the Scofeld concerned in
the affair was the same old Charlie who
once made something of noise here
by securing control of the Wasatch and
Jordan Valley Railway, holding meet
ing by himself and voting himself a
certain quantity of bonds; then secur-
ing some sort of control of the Blng-
ham Canyon road and making that
road guarantee the bonds of the
Wasatch; the same Mr.. Scofeld whose
fnanciering genius was so much ap-
preciated By some of his admiring rail-
road confreres that they bestowed his
name upon one OF the classic cities OF
Emery CouHty where Itstill survives
when all this came to be understood,
there was the hottest kind of quest for
New YORK HeraLdS and Worlds, and
every one of those papers which has ar
rived in town during the past week has
b EN- eagerly read ana handed round as
long as they remained decipherable.
The wide notoriety this case has
achieved must be TIE HERALD's excuse
for devoting some space to 1t this NOM
inng. Mr.. Sc1feld, in this affair, seems
to be considerably more sinned against
than SHINING. The examination and
the inquest resulted in the release of
himself and his wife Do bail, and in the
general acceptance of the theory that
Hatch met his death by jumping or
falling from the roof of MIR. Scofield's
house, whittier he had gone to avoid
Mr.. Soofeld. The story, as far as 1t
has progressed, is CLEANED from the
New York Herald:
"HulloaI Why, there's a man lying
dead in the yard!'
Two house painters, employed to
brighten up the premises of No. GA West
Twentieth Street, had just arrived at
the scene of their days labor, when one
Of them made this startling discovery.
TWAS the first step toward unravel-'
ling a CHASTITY tragedy and social
scandal, which has plunged more than
one family into grief and shame.
The dead man was Nathaniel w. [.
Hatch. a we'll known member of the
New York Stock Exchange, and the
yard in which his body was found did
not belong TO his own residence, but 10
that Of another man.
How he came to be there and how he
met his death form a curious story of
city life.
When the painters recovered from
their surprise they proCee led to notify
Mrs. Charles Scofeld, wife Of the oc-
cupaut Of the dwelling, and sh@ stepped
ont Of q window on the second floor
10 the roof of anext2nsion back OF the
parlor floor. Looking over into the
yard she at once recognized tina dead
Saan as Nathaniel W. Z. Hatch, who
had been in her company few hours
before. According to all accounts Mrs.
Bcofeld acted in tOlerably cool man
Sier, for she at once sent out servant
to summon policeman.
HUSBAND AND WIFE ARRESTED.
officer Stephen ]. Reardon, of the
Nineteenth Precinct, was on post on
twentieth Street and happened to be
near the house when called. He was
ehoWa the BODY and informed by NJ IS.
Gco6eld that Mr.. Hatch had been in
the house until late hour, his pres
ence there being the cause of of quar-
rel between her and her husband. She
$50 said that MIR. Hatch had b!cOme
6armed at the alteration, and she sup
|4sd ne had endsaYored to escape by
descending to the yard by leap to a
tree. but hal missed his hold and fell
headlong to the tagging beneath: Of
feer Reardon found Mr.. Scoheld also
III the house, so he told them they were
both under arrest and he sent word to
the station house IN West Thlrteth
Street.
Detectives Brett and Hayes at once
fastened to the scene and in turn list
ened TO the statements OF Mr.. and MRS.
Scoheld, being as much puzzled by them
as had been the patrolman.
EVIDENTLY JUMPED INTO THE TREE.
DIR. Gustav Leholer, deputy to Coro-
uer Ferdinand Levy, was in turn sum-
moned by the police. On his arrival
hs proceeded to examine the body as it
Eay at the foot of the tall alianthus tree
Which is growing in the yard. Raising
the head from the pool OF blood which
had collected around it, he discovered q
terrible cut, and it required but slight
pressure with his fingers to show that
Che dead man had sustained a COM
pound fracture of the base of the skull.
It was quite evident that death had
been almost instantaneous, for in the
CIenched fingers were fragments of "a
smsIl branch and under his arm was a
section of Dough nearly four inches in
The deputy coroner listened to the
ststemenJs OF the Sco6elds and saw that
tkEre was an air of probability about
the alleged facts, for the broken limb
had been growing almost on alevel with