New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-22
STOLEN PROPERTY RECOVERED.
CAPTURE OF NOTORIOUS HORSE-THlEf.
TWO OF HIS RIBS BROKEN IN AN UPsEr-A LONG
CAREER OF CRIME.

CAPTURE OF NOTORIOUS HORSE-THlEf.
TWO OF HIS RIBS BROKEN IN AN UPsET-A LONG
CAREER OF CRIME.
Walter Scranton, of No. SO Broadway, vice.
president Of the Scranton Steel Company, OF Scran
ton Penn, gave information at Police Headquartefs
on July IL. that horse valued at SZOoU anu
light Brewster wagon had been stolen from .ne
stable near his residence In New hochene.
He said that has coachman had seen man ma,
lettering about the stable on the previous DAY;
InspectOrByrnes sent Detectve-Sergeants iiaieynnu
Rutland to search the boardl IN this city,
and on last Thursday the officers found the morse
in a stable in East Eleventh ST. 1t had been taken
there Tuesday night by direction OF w ih I III,
OF no 90 Eas s secSed hand articles and
who. the police say, was convicted OF forgery
ID Providence, r. l., some years ago JONI h,,,
son represented that the horse belonged 10 nun
when he engaged board for It. description Oh tas
man who took the horse to the stable tailed WIN
that of the man noticed by Mr.. Scrantons coacu-
man. Information had been received py lnsprcI I
Byrnes In the meantime that man had ohered
horse and wagon for sale at pubic mousse on INC
road to the Lutheran Gem edm;r, want ~ To-
the place and found the wagon there Dadly oroSe.
The thief had endeaVored TO persuade Wedithy
widow Mrs Ryan to purchase '9 ho t5e snred Of
the animal The wagon was upset AMI broken anu
the occupants were thrown out. Mrs Ryan lan
her face cut badly, and several of her nOs were
broken The thief had two RIBS broken also, Dut ne
persisted in taking the horse to New-1ork 1,laI
same evening and he borrowed an ola wagon, pc
horse IN East Eleventh-st. .,..
Johnson was arrested on Friday. He said that ne
had consented to sell the horse for stranger
Late on FRIDAY evening the detectives arrested
james Brady, an old thief at his home, NO, io'2
Grovc-st He was taken 10 the Mercer street Ioiice
Station and an ambulance surgeon was summoned
to examine him. The surgeon sad that aithouGh
two of Brady's ribs fractured 1t was not heces
sary to take him TO the hosp al After oeng iocxed
no all night and being Informed OF the
proofs of his guilt, the prisoner acknowledged
that he had taken the horse and wagon to
Long Island to sell them but he would not say that
he had stolen them. Both Brady and johnson were
rs ners al Police Headquarters last night, police
Justice having remanded them IN the custody OF In
spector Byrnes until this morning.
Brady recently sold two stolen horses 10 ME- Crow,
The proprietor of stable at No. 1913 West Thirty
eIghth-st. In 1854 Brady convicted OF partlci-
patton in the robbery OF the Wndhah
Bank, in Connecticut, and served three years
in prison. tbs accompllces got away WIN
S3S 600 He was convicted again III 1903
OF robbing the Royal Silk Factory at Paterson, ~
j. and was sentenced for ano her term OF three
gears For stealing quantity oil human hair ~
Washington in 1869 he was sentenced for term oil
three years and half. He was arrested on
chargs of morse stealing in Hoboken IN 1879. but
was irled aud convicted ior stealing two COWS.
Since he served his last sentences he has been at
largo for about year. lie IS iity-seven years DID,