Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-09
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. BANKER HATCH'S DEATH While Fleeing From an
 Angry Husband. PARNELL ON THE RESCRIPT. A Bombshell for the
 Methodist Bishops. THE EMPEROR IN BED ALL DAY. Jones Thinks Blaine Might
 Accept.

Accept.
 FLEEING A HUSBANDS WRATH. Banker Hatch Falls From Free and is KflIed-A Tragedy Surrounded by l Peculiar Circumstances.
 1 NEW YORK, May 8.-The dead body of 1 Nathaniel W. T. Hatch, banker and broker at IA Nassau street, was found this morning by workman in the yard in the rear of GA ! West Twentieth street. His skull was frac- 1 tured and his body lay in pool of blood. His clothing was disordered and there-were bruises on his body. The limb of tree in I the back yard, near which the body lay, was | broken. At first there were suspicious of | murder and Mrs. Charles w. Scofeld, who | lives at the house with her husband, was sr- rested Her husband, who was formerly a broker and president of the Montgomery and Florida railroad, was also taken into custo- | dy The police found, on their investiga- | tion, that Mrs. Scefeld dined with Hatch last night at restaurant in West Twenty | seventh street, & place known as Mime. Fannys It was within half an hour of midnight when they left the restaurant and Mir. Hatch accompanied her nome. Arriving there she invited him in. After they had been together about ten minutes MT. Scofeld came in and his suspicious were at once aroused in regard to MT. Hatch. The latter was hastily concealed in. room on the second floor and Mrs. Scofeld turned to meet her husband. Sco. fields jealousy was raised to 8 hot 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 then, according to the police, ensued a lively quarrel between hus- band and wife, which only ended when Sco- field left the house.
 As to what happened after Sco6eld left his wife the police could obtain satisfactory information They suspected that he met counter, which ended in the broker being thrown from the rear window of the second floor. Captain Reilly decided to detain both the Scofelds and they were placed under ar- rest.
 Mrs. Scofeld told the following story of the affair: T have known MT. Nathaniel W. T. Hatch and his father, Mir. Walter T. Hatch, for over three years. MT. W. T. Hatch in troduced me to his son. Yesterday noon went down town to give orders about some stock transactions. I first went to I. & s. Wormser's and then to Hatch & Sons' office l
 going to take lHnch at the Hoffman restau- rant, corner of New and Beaver streets, and MT. Nathaniel Hatch walked down Broad street with me. I told him l was going to
 pass an hour or two at the office of my broth er-in-law D. c. Ferris, broker at 55 Broad
 way. Mir. Hatch came to my brother-in-law's office at about o'clock and he waited there
 till about 6. Then we went uptown. MT. Ferris was not able to come for few min- utes and we promised to meet him at O'NeilPs
 oyster house, Twenty second street and Sixth
 avenue, at 6:30. He got there before us, but
 said did not want to dine at O'NeilPs and
 proposed that we go to Mime. Fanny's
 French restaurant on West Twenty seventh
 street. All three of us went there, but my
 brother-in-law only stayed long enough to
 drink glass of wine and to take some soup.
 Then he left us. We had several bottles of
 wine at dinner. We sat for long time
 after dinner was over chatting with Mime.
 Fanny, and it must have been 11:30 or 12
 o'clock when we left. We were the last per-
 sons in the restaurant. MT. Hatch accom-
 panied me home and I invited him to see
 the house. I lighted the gas in the hallway
 and on the second floor and showed him
 what a nice place it would be when the
 workmen got through. There was so much
 dust and dirt that felt thirsty and I asked
 MT. Hatch to get me glass of water.
 was then in my own room on the second
 floor. He went into the bathroom on the
 same floor to get the water. Just then
 heard the front door open. I looked over
 the baluster and said to MT. Hatch, There's
 some one in the house. Then I went down.
 stairs and saw it was my husband. He said:
 I heard voices, who is itF said: Never
 mind, you don't want to see them. It's some
 to go into his own room to avoid e1plana-
 tions. I stayed with my husband in the
 back parlor some minutes and engaged him
 in conversation. I thought that meanwhile
 Mir. Hatch would leave the house. At about
 o'clock my husband walked out of his bed
 room and sat on the front stooP. saw that
 he did not intend to enter the house for
 some time, so I went upstairs. I found
 that all the doors on the second
 floor were locked I concluded that Mir.
 Hatch had got frightened and locked himself
 in. I stopped to the keyhole and said: MT.
 Hatch, MT. Scofield has gone; please open the
 door. It's all right. called out many
 times, but there was no answer. I thought
 he must have gone into one of the closets in
 my room, so went along the hallway and
 knocked on the wall. got matches andlit
 them near the keyhole, so that he could see I
 was alone. But got-no answer, so tried to
 burst the door in. It was a task beyond my
 strength, so I went out to get policeman to
 help me. MT. Scofeld was then sitting on
 stoop several doors distant. The officer burst
 open the door of the bathroom, but I could
 see no trace of MT. Hatch. I went through
 the two rooms and the extension which con-
 meets with the bathroom, but still
 dows on the floor had been open
 all day and they were still open. I looked
 into the closets and then went to the front
 window It opens on the top of the bay win
 dew of the parlor, and seeing how easy it was
 for anyone to descend to the street by this
 window thought MT. Hatch had done so. l
 made no further search and in short time
 went to bed. My husband did not return to
 the house till 6:30. I did not hear of MT.
 Hatch's death until o'clock, when the
 painters told me they had found his body in the yard. I account for his death in this
 way: Nr. Hatch had hidden in my room when he heard my husband come in, and when the policeman came to break in the door he must have thought some harm was meant to be done him. He got out on to the bathroom window on to the extension and made jump for the branch of the big tree near the balcony of the extension and tried to swing to the ground, But he must have Mrs. Scc6eld declared that her relations with MT. Hatch were not of an improper character. She knew he was married man with family, but he was pleasant com pauion and she felt on friendly terms with him. She said she was sure Mir. Scofeld had no encounter with MT. Hatch. MT. Scofeld was 8 very mild-mannered man, and he knew she had business relations with people which he must not interfere with.
 Scofield and his wife were held at the po- | lice station to await the action of Deputy Coroner Scholer, who had been notified of Hatch's death. The coroner released them on their own recognizance.
 Mir. Hatch was a member of the firm of | Walter T. Hatch & Sons, bankers and brok- | CTS at IA Nassau street, and was the eldest son of the senior member of the firm. He was forty-three years old and lived with his ! wife in a handsome and well furnished house
 at 36 West Fifty-third street. Until few years ago he resided in Brooklyn where his wife was one of the most prominent ladies | in society on the Heights. His father, Wal ter T. Hatch, lives at 124 Remsen street. His brothers are Henry P. Hatch, who made some reputation as an amateur actor, and Arthur M, Hatch, who is we'll known in Brooklyn
 society. MT. Nathaniel Hatch was member