The evening world., 1894-05-01
HARRICAN IS CAUGHT.
Florence Clarke's Dishonest Lover
May Not Escape This Time.
Recovered from Her Illness and
Followed Him from England.
Cleverly Lurcd to tho Hoffman
House and Arrested.

Luke IIarrigan. who has been wanted
by the police since last December, Is
now in their custody.
Luke is thirty years old. big. brawny
and foxy. lie formerly lived in Brook
Ign, but refuses to give his address now.
Last August Inspector Mclaughlin
was HANDED IA despatch from the Scot
land Yard authorities. asking for Lukc's
arrest on a charge of larceny. The
story which the I.ondon detectives had
unearthed of Ilarrlgan's wrong doing
was as follows:
Harrigan had met ana wooed a young
Irish girl In this city. whose name
was Florence *. Clarke. She had in
herited II little money. and had saved a
little more, and her savings, carefully
guarded, amounted to $3.50.
H%lrrigan. under promise OF marriage,
got her to lend him this money to pay
the expenses of Il trip to London, where.
he explained, he had friends and a lu-
crative position waiting for him. The
girl gave him the money inc went with
him to England.
Soon after their arrival Florence was
taken sick. and .iarrigan ran away.
leaving her penni!ess In a boarjing,
,''s'' q ii'ilfN'ioN'is w iNi ~"
York with the last of the money he had
obtained from his trusting tiancee.
This was the condition of affairs that
Scotland Yard had discovered, and In
the latter was run down within
three days. Then began long
which proved unsuccessful in the end.
President Cleveland was convinced that
the crime happened in this country. and
refused to sign the papers. So Harrigan
He bobbed up again on Christmas
DIy. when he was complain at against a
woman named Katherine Crdnuai, whom
he charged with stealing, money from
even In a police court and the Crandall
woman was discharged.
Since then Harrigan's abode and his
movements have been a secret locked
in the breasts of his family and himself.
Meanwhile Florence Clarke had been
turned to his country. one day she
saw Harrigan acting as conductor on n
Broadway cable-car. But he saw her
first, and when Detectives Price and
McCafferty went to the Company ! Of
flee the next day Harrigan had resigned,
and no one knew where he could be
found.
As Harrigan knew Price, the work of
finding him devolved on Detective Nc
Cafferty. Harrigan has a brother named
William, who keeps a little barber-shop
at SOC Seventh avenue, and McCafferty
took to going there for his hair-cuts and
slaves. He gradually got to be on the
iOlliest terms with the barber, but the
latter refused to make any reference
to his brother. and McCafferty could
find no excuse for dragging in Luke's
name.
Yesterday William and the detective
were talking about Irish fighters.
From that the conversation led to the
Wild West Show. soon to open in Brook,
lyn. and McCaTerty said casually:
BY the n II you were a large man
] could get you n Job with Buffalo Bill.
He's a great friend OF mine"
IT have a friend who's been out Of
work for some time, and I think he
would like such a job. replied the bar
Der. What would he ave to do?"
"Well-if he was dark he could be a
fake Indian" suggested McCafferty.
"He isn't. He's tall and fair. and n
broth of a boy said the barber. land
he sits a horse like a jockey" Then he
described Luke.
Hell do nicely for an Irish dragoon,"
said McCarerty: with a red coat and
a big helmet. He'll make a beauty"
50 he made an engagement to have
the would-be dragon go to the Hoff-
man House last night at S o'clock.
Let him go to the bar and ask for
me-" said McCanferty, passing a card to
the barber. on which was written: