Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-20
TWO DETECTIVES SHOT.
A Burglar Nearly King Two BROOKLYN
Officers and then Escapes.
Naar Vol. Tr,oas 1914

Two. detectives, Patrick Corr and Ed.
ward LOoney, attached to the BROOKLYN
Central Office, were shot last evening. and
seriously wounded by a burglar named
Robert HOvan, alias Paul Harrington.
alias Preston, alias Munroe, whom they
were endeavoring TO arrest. The burglar
escaped and the two detectives are now
under surgical care at the Mount Sinai
Hospital. Hovan is notorious burglar and
sneak thief. Hewas arrested in Brooklyn.
where he was known as Paul Harrlng-
ton, in December last for a burglary in
w willow street, and was released on bail.
w hen the case was called for trial he did
not appear, and bench warrant was is
sued for his arrest. The officers traced
him to this city, and learned that under
the name of Harrington he was boarding
in the tenement house No. ,225 First ave-
nue.. They watched the house all dav YES
terday. At about $3.50 O'Clock Harrington
left the house and walked along the ave-
nue. toward SiXty-fifth street. AS he
turned into SiXty-tifth street the light of a
street lamp shOne in his face, and the
officers, despite a change in his appear
ance, caused by shaving off a full beard.
recognized him. They followed him until
he reached station of the Elevated Rail-
road at SiXty-fifth street and Second ave-
nue.. At the foot of the stairs the detec-
tives closed in on him, and, as they did so,
Harrington turned suddenly round
and, pulling a Self-cOcking re-
vOlver out of his OvercOat pock-
ct, fired pOint-blank at the officers.
LOpney was the nearest one to him, and
the bullet struck him i'm the left side of
the neck, and the blood spurted out in a
stream. He fell into the gutter, and Corr
thereupon drew his revolver. He and the
burglar fired simultaneously. The burg
lar, however, was the better shot, and
Corr was wounded in the neck. He fired
two more shots and the burglar fired an
other, but they did not take effect. The
burglar then dashed past Corr and ran up
SiXty-tifth street toward Third Avenue.
Corr pursued him as fast as his cOndi-
tlOn would permit, and LOOney, who had
regained his feet, also followed in pur-
suit. About the middle of the block they
were surrounded by crowd of men and
boys attracted to the scene by the firing.
and their movements were so impeded
that the fugitive gained Lexington ave-
nue. and disappeared in the darkness.
AS the wounded detectives were stag
gering along they were met at Third
avenue and SiXty-fifth street by Detective
Sergeant Hickey, of the Central office, and
PatrOlman Brannigan, of the Twenty
eighth precinct, to whom they related what
had occurred. They were hurried to
Mount Sinai Hospital, and Drs. Coleman,
Shilland and YanderpOel were soon in at
tendance. The wounded men, although
they had lost great deal of blood, showed
nerve. They are both large, powerful
men, and, although suffering severely from
shock, never for moment lost courage
nor uttered groan. 1t was ascertained
that L00ney was more seriously wounded
than his cOmrade, and was suffering
hull al-
him IN the left side of the neck, and pass
ing through the flesh and muscles, had
made its exit from the back of the neck.
Corr was wounded, also, in the left side of
the neck, and the bullet had taken a very
erratic course, passing through the fleshy
part Of the neck and shoulder and lodging
in the back near the left shoulder. 1t was
extracted by DR.. Coleman. The attend
ing surgeons said last night that both
officers had narrow escape from DEATH
The wounds are serious, and the danger
to be feared is Inflammation or secondary
hemorrhage.
To a Times reporter, who, through the
courtesy of DR.. Coleman, was permitted
to converse with Detective Corr, he made
statement substantially as given above.
"When we saw Harrington first" he said,
s'We did not recognize him, as his appear
ance had been so much changed by the
Shaving Oh Oh MS DeafQ. e followed
him along siXty-fifth street to Second ave-
nue., and then he suddenly slot across the
street to the west side of the avenue,
where there is a pile of high rocks, and
went swiftly along in the dark shadow of
the rocks until he got to the foot of the
elevated railroad stairs. We were then
sure of our man, and we closed in upon
him intending to arrest him. Looney was
in advance, and within 10 feet of Harring-
ton, with his hand Outstretched ready to
take him by the collar, when he turned
like a flash and whipped out his revolver,
which he must have had in his hand in
his Overcoat pocket, and fired without a
word. LOOney exclaimed, 'Oh! I'm done
for and fell on the sidewalk, Ipulled out
my revolver and fired three shots at Har-
ringtOn, and he fired two at me. His sec
Ond shot struck me. He then ran and but
for the people that got in my way would
have caught him. am sorry he got away
from u.s." LoOney was not in condition to
make a statement.