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

Luke Harrigan, who has been wanted
nv the police since last December. is
now in their custody.
Luke Is thirty years old, big. brawny
and foxy. He formerly lived in Brook
,vn. but 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 Il charge of larceny. The
story which the London detectives had
unearthed of Harrigan's wrong doing
was as follows:
H%arrigan had met and wooed a young
Irish girl IN this city. whose name
was Florence X. Clarke. She had in
herited a little money, me had saved a
little more, and her savings, carefully
guarded, amounted to 1850.
H4rrigan, under promise Of marriage,
got her to lend him this money to pay
the expenses of a trip to London, where.
he explained, he a friends and a lu-
crative position waiting for him. The
girl gave him the money and went with
Soon after their arrival Florence was
taken sick. and .iarrigan ran away,
house. He immediately sailed for New
York with the last of the money he had
obtained from his trusting tiancee. ..
This was the condition of affairs that
spector Mclaughlin sent Detective
the latter was run down within
thFes d. days obta, Then extr esfain pap ,ens
which proved unsuccessful in the end.
President Cleveland was convinced that
the crime happened in his country, and
refused to sign the papers. So Harrigan
was released.
lie bobbed up again on Christmas
Day, when he was complainant against a
woman named Katherine Crandali. whom
he charged with stealing, money from
him. His case was too fiimsy to hold
even in a police court and the Crandall
woman was discharged. 500,
Since then Harrigan's abode n his
movements have been q, secret locked
in the breasts of his family and himself.
Meanwhile Florence Clarke had been
steadily. improving in health, and RE Re
saw Harrigan acting as conductor on a
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. .
finding him devolved on Detective Nc
Cafferty. Harrigan has a brother named
William, Who keeps a little barber-shop
at S6 Seventh avenue, and McCafferty
'oph " SolIlB tItIt u hlS 'Idil- III
skaves. He gradually got to be or the
~tolliest 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 ope In Brook
lyn. and McCafferty said casually:
by the way, II o were a large mar
I could get you a job with Buffalo Bill.
He's n great friend of mine"
II have a friend who's been out of
work for some time. and 1 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
II isn't. He's tall n fair. and a
broth OF n boy" said the barber. land
he sits a horse like a jockey" Then he
described Luke.
Hell do nicely for an Irish dragoon."
said McCafferty. with a red coat and
a big helmet. He'll make a beauty"
SO he made an engagement to have
the would-be dragon go to the Hoff-
man House last night at 3 o'clock.
Let him go to the bar and ask for
me- said McCafferty, passing n card to
the barber, on which was written: