The Murder of Edward Hatch, 1921
From the New Jersey Mirror May 11 1921 Surprising a river pirate in the act of robbing his boathouse at Delair on Saturday afternoon, Edward E. Hatch, a prominent resident of Riverton, received a gunshot wound from which he died in a few minutes. Hatch, who was a prosperous brick manufacturer, engaged in battle with the thief, worsted him at first, pursued him into the river, where waist deep they resumed their desperate struggle, and then was shot by the young river rat as he was overpowering the outlaw for a second time. The police of both sides of the Delaware were promptly notified and a drag-net set for the capture of the murderer and his two comrades, who had sat out in the river in a canoe and waited for the boat house thief when he entered the Hatch property to steal whatever he could lay his hands on. For some time the detectives were rather puzzled by the presence of two green canoes in the trail which they were following, acting on the clue furnished by the mortally wound