The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-11-05
THE SHOOTING OF OFFICER uuRYEA.

THE SHOOTING OF OFFICER DURYEA.
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Arrest OF the Rsputed Principal In Ohio
He IL Brought 10 this City and Held for
Trial-John O'C0nnell. Alias Connolly,
Committed a. One or the Principal to
tho Observation-Disclosures Before JUS
tice Dodge-AAidavits Taken in the
Case, Sc. eff tss4t,
On the afternoon Of the 22d ultino Owen Hart q
young man living the east side OF the city,
rested by officers Harris and vermiIyca Of the Eighteenth
precinct, two charges Of grand larceny and Of
felonious assault and battery. After his apprehension
Hart stated to Officer Harris that thu friends Of John
Carroll, alias "Kge Cahili usirg every effort in
their power to get him Hnr out Of the way he knew
too much to suit them When asked for explanation
the prisoner stated that he knew who murdered ocer
George W. Durysa of the Nineteenth precinct the
corner Of street and Second avenue, the
evening Of May 10, 1854. Hart was arragned before
Justice Dodge to whom hc stated that aKigeo Cahi had
confessed TO shooting ocos Drvy.a and likewise said
his brother, vhcr.As Ear i.Li; shoot tho officer
Hart also afl's, .nM icr, cco0nell alias Connolly,
was an ,'assry u, ne .',.yier. Thomas Hart Mrs.
Creagan aaa Connolly brought into court the
afternoon OF the day. and the aidayis Of the two
former taken' which pointed 70 Ceh q ihe murderer
connolly was locked up accessory TO the murder,
ePn tne ohors detained as witnesses The officer then
received information that the pistol with which officer
Dnryea was shot had been given to William Harvey,
bartender In Grand street. by the alleged murderer
When waited upon Harvey confessed TO having the
pistol, and gave it up to the officer.
Justice Dodge issued his warrant for Cah, as prn-
cipal in the murder and officer Harris, learning that
Cahi was In Philadelphia, went to that city for him;
but no could not be found second visit TO the Quaker
City by officer Harris was equally unsuccessful subse
that Cahill was keeping q drinking place in Co
umbus, Ohio for which place the officer i'm
medately started arriving there early on oc the
Harris cclored his whiskcrs and otherwise disguised
himself after which he started out In pursuit Of his man.
and in passing 30 High street Cahl stepped from
basement to the pavement and met the officer face
to face They shook hands, and while exchanging COM
plimcnts Harris slipped handcur to OF Cahills
wrists and hurried him the street, where the
prisoner made powerful resistance and attempted 70
escape. In an instant officer Harris placed loaded
revolver at his head and threatened 70 blow his brains
out II he did not his violence. The prisoners
other hand was then secured in the iron bracelet after
which officer Davis, of the Columbus police, came up,
and Cah hurried of to the nearest police station.
Shortly afterwards officer Harris started East with his
prisoner, arriving here on Friday night The prisoner
was locked up
Below will be found the testimony OF the witnesses
and the decision OF Justice Dodge
Thomas Hart, of No. 2l2 East Nineteenth street. being
sworn, testified as foliows-That in May, 1854 he at
tended picnic Of the Church OF the Immaculate Con-
ccpon at jones' Wood; that during the afternoon he
saw in the said jones' Wood John Carroll and John
Connolly and that they were In company together that
some time between the hours OF FIVE and seven O'Clock
in the afternoon (deponen cannot state tho exact me
he left the said Jones' Wood and went the Second
avennc between Sxty-second and Sixythird streets,
nearly opposite the railroad depot that he there
John Connolly (now herc) in charge Of officer whom
depoucnt subsequently ascertaned officer George
W. Duryca Of tho Nineteenth precincts that while no
was in charge OF said officer dcponen said John
Carroll approach said officer and deponcn heard him
say, LET 60 Of him. the officer at the time had his
hand the cont collar OF sad Connoy that he Gar
ro said something else to said officer which deponent
did not hear and said Connolly then endcavorcd to break
away from said officer but did not succeed that dcpo
ncnt then said Carroll put his hand inside his coat
and pull out n box and take from said box silver
mounted revolver pistol and that said Carroll then
deponent heard the discharge OF said pistol that he
the said officer instantly fall 10 the pavement; that
the said Connolly down the Second avenue, and that
Carroll in lot near by, and deponent him
running said lot where he disappeared that de-
and he DISCLOSED bs un
for the reason that he afraid that the friends
Of Connolly and Carroll would either kill him do him
some bodily HARM and that deponent now gives this in
voluntarily and for the purpose OF serving the
ends Of JUSTICE and he charges that the said homicide OF
said officer George Duryea was so committed as afore
said by said Carroll and that said Connolly accessory
thereto and he pays that said Connolly may be held for
examination and that warrant may DO issued for the
apprehension Of said Carroll who deponent is Informed
and believes Is in Philadelphia.
Annie Crcagan, of East Twentieth street. being sworn,
says that in May 1884, she attended picnic in Jones
Wood, and that between the hours OF i've and seven
O'Clock In the afternoon of said day. she In Second
avenue car and that there were In company together
dcponen her husband, Mrs. Dee and Bridget NcAufe,
the wife OF John Carroll also John Carroll and
John Connolly (now hcre dcponent says that when the
car Just below JOINS Wood, Second avenue and
the depot disturbance occurred outside the car
and that said Connolly went out OF said car had
some difficulty with policeman, and that John Carroll
after said Connolly that few moments afterwards
deponent heard pistol shot, and some said that
policeman had been shot; that neither Connolly nor
Carroll returned to said and that deponent and her
husband and the ladies returned home and had tea
and about two hours thereafter said Carroll came to
Opponents house alone, and after having some tea he
formed and believes that said policeman was shot by
said Carroll and she believes said Carroll Is in Pblade
pha-
William Haeney, OF No. 235 Grand street, being duly
sworn, dep0scs aud saysThat few days before the 4h
Of July, 1894 John Carroll came to him and offered
him pistol, under the following circumsanccs:-Depo
nent was attending bar at tho corner Of Spring and
Marion streets when one day Just before the 4th q
sad place, and, handing deponcnt seven chambcred
revolving pistol, ivory handled and silver mounted,
made by Smith wesson mo; $500, asked depo-
ncnt TO keep u for him until he called again for IT,
that few days thereafter he again to deponent
and dcponcn stated that he had said pistol safe for him.
when said Carroll said TO ceponen that nc did not
qure II any longer and he would make present to
deponen that the time deponent got said pistol be-
fore the first arrest OF said Carroll upon suspicion Of
shooting officer Duryea; that dcponent has kept sad ps
tol ever since until officer Harris inquired Of him II John
Carroll ever gave deponen such pistol when deponcnt
oincer said pistol, and that tho pisio now In pos
session Of officer Harris Is the same pistol 30
U Ss
Metropolitan Police being duly sworn says that the
I'd OF November, 1885, he arrested John Carroll tnow
bcrcl al the city Of Columbus In the State OF Ohio that
said Carroll s better known a. Nugey" Cah and that
dcponcnt Is informed that his proper John Ca
HILL deponcnt further says that he arrested said Cah
under the following circumstances: That on Sunday
the ed Of October 1865, he Informed by Thomas
Hart that he, said Hart saw said Carroll Cahil shoot
officer Duryea on the Second avenue; that deponent
took said Hart at his request 70 Justice Dodge, at tho
Second District Police Court, and that In Opponents
that Justice Dodge issued warrant for the arrest OF
Carroll Cahill and delivered tho TO deponcnt to
execute that deponent informed that said Carroll
Cahll, was In Philadelphia; that be went 10 Phla-
dclpha but did not ind him there, when he received
information that no was In Columbus Ohio; that depo
nent proceeded to Columbus, Ohio and went 10 No 40
High street. in said city Of Columbus and there found
and arrested said Carroll Cahli, and brought him
Immediately to New York, and produced him In court
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