The evening world., 1894-05-01
IARR|GAN IS CAUGHT.
rorence Clarke's Dishonest Lover
Nav Not Escape This Time.
a.coyered from Her Illness and
Followed Him from England.
Cleyerly Lured to tho Hoffman
House and Arrested.

,ute Harrigan, who has been wanted
49,. ,he nolice since last December. is
now in their custody.
LIKE Is thirty years old. big, brawny
and foxy. He formerly lived in Brook
,vn hut refuses to give his address now.
last August Inspector Mclaughlin
was handed a despatch from the SCOT
land Yard authorities, asking for Luke's
arrest on a charge of larceny. The
story which the London detectives had
\ unearthed of Harrigans wrong doing
! was as follows:
Harrlgan had met and wooed a young
Irish girl IN this city, whose name
was Florence K. Clarke. She had In
herited a little money, and had saved a
little more, and her savings, carefully
guarded, amounted to $3.50.
HArrigan, under promise Of marriage,
got her to lend him this money to pay
the expenses of a trip to London. where.
he explained, he had friends and a lu-
| crative position waiting for him. Inc
girl gave him the money and went with
Soon after their arrival Florence was
taken sick, and .1arrigan ran away
leaving her penni!ess In a boardlng,
York with the last of the money he MAD
obtained from his trusting fancee.
This was the condition of affairs that
Scotland Yard had discovered anu ct IN,
Price out to get Harrigan and
kthe latter was run down within
three days. Then began long
light - obtain e%xtrauiu1 ON tb pap snd'
President Cleveland was convinced that
the crime happened in this country, and
refused to sign the papers. So Aarrigan
He bobbed up again on Christmas
Day, when he vas complainant against a
woman named Katherine Crandall. whom
lie charged with stealing money IRON
linn, His case was too fimsy to hold
wen in a police court and the Crandall
Eoman was discharged, 49,
<lSince then Harrigan's abode and his
ovements have been a secret Locked
a. the breasts of his family and himself.
Meanwhile, Florence Clarke had been
sSeadiIy im as dnsnt in hea dne d ana she Re,
Nv Harrigsp acting as conductor on a
Broadway cAble-car., But he saw her
nat, and when Detectives Price and
<kcCafferty went to the Company. \ of
See the next day Harrigan had resigned,
I'D no one knew where he could be
As Harrignn knew Price. the work OF
ading him devolved on Detective Nc,
E4 fferty. Harrigan has a brother named
lillian, who keeps a little barber.shor
~ 8O6 Seventh avenue. and McCafferty
box to COINS there for his hair-cuts and
kaves. He gradually got to be on the
olliest terms with the barber, but the
liter refused to make any reference
his brother, and McCafferty could
nd no excuse for dragging in Luke's
.ame.
Yesterday William and the defective
kere talking about Irish fighters;
From h the conversation led to tn
Wild West Show. soon to open in Brook
yn. and McCafferty said casually:
by the way, II you were a large mar
could get you n Job with Buffalo Bill
les a great friend Of mine"
III have a friend who's been out O.
ork for some time. and I think HI
ould like such a joh." replied the bar
n. "What would he have to do?'
'Well-if he was dark he could be
Ike Indian" suggested McCafferty..
He isn't. He's tall and fair, and
9th of a boy" said the barber, "an'
sits a horse like a jockey" Then h
kscribed Luke.
t'He'll do nicely for an Irish dragon,
lid McCafferty. with a red coat AM
big helmet. He'll make n beauty"
50 he made an engagement to hay
he would-be dragon go to the Hofi
ban House last night at 8 o'clock.
H"Let him go to the bar and ask 70
he," said McCafferty, passing a card I
be barber, on which was written: