The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
EUGENE M'CARTHY'S 1O6TH.
THIs TINE IT WAS a COW THlT
"a n FD HIM TO BE ARRESTED.

HIM ~ On 0Ds
A C,t,sen OF Fiatbush who Celebrated One
Century Of Arrests Recentiy. and ns Started
a, n Observation-Disclosures OF tho Man ana
mis- 1--we stock That Get Him Int Court
For tho 1oeth time in twenty years Eugene
| Mccarthy Of Flatbush stood In a police COURT
| Monday morning a prisoner at tho bar. For the
1Osth time no Rrinned at tho Justice on the
bench. For the 1O6th time tho Justice heard the
case and imposed q 1ne. For tho l06th time
| Eugene Mccarthy paid 1t and won't free.
This ia his record, and when he forEets to be
angry about Il he is proud of II. He holds hs
head as high as any man, and to tell the truth
It would be difficult to find a person in Flatbush
to say q really bad word against him. Occa-
sionally he may get drunk, to be sure, or CALI
| friend hard names on the street. or dump his
ashes where he shouldn't, or take some other
persons dirt, or lot q COW or a pig or a horse
get loose and spoil q pasture green, but at that
he's not q bad man. even when the stamp OF
legal disapproval has been put upon him by the
assessment of q flno. All the charges above
enumerated have boon made and proved againse
Mccarthy. but his b~esotting sin Is more particu'
larly the last. He can't keep his animals 40
homo somehow, and the ructions they have
raised have caused him all sorts Of trouble.
This was the trouble last Monday. Policeman
Patrick G. Murray of tho Grant street police
station had seen q cow wandering In q hne green
vacant lot in Nostrand avenue. Long expert
ence having made him familiar with the Mo.
earthly COWS. he instantly spotted 1t as one OF
the old offenders, and he obtained a warrant for
the owner. When McCarthy's name was called
in the Grant Street Police Court he ambled up
to tho bench, wherein sat Justice Alfred n
Steers. an old, old friend of his.
GOOD marnin'. Joodge," said Mccarthy. with
a grin. " an how much is it ye want to-day
He has been fined so often that he was getting
facetious; but when it came to tho trial he lost
all his sense of humor and became pugnacious,
McCarthy's long experience in police courts has
taught him not to employ q lawyer. He handles
all his own cases, and does his own cross-exam-
lining. After the policeman had told his story,
Mccarthy went at him, but could not shake his
testimony. Then he put in his stereotyped exc
cuse that the COW escaped, and the Justice gave
him the old stereotyped fne-$10. AS he usually
does he allowed himself to be transferred to tho
She riffs office, where he paid the money and
was released.
Mccarthy is "a years old. He is q little bull.
let-headed lrishman with the wit and pugnacity
for which his countrymen are famous. He calls
himself a contractor and is principally engaged
in digging cellars. He OWNS tho house in which
he lives, at Nostrand avenue and Canarsie lane,
and is quite well to do. despite the constant
mulcting he has undergone in court.
Flatbush, although a part OF the city Of Brook
Ign, is quite rural in appearance. There are
large For Rent" signs and a tino crop Of tender
grass. Then there are many little cottages
surrounding as they do Of their babies. TO harm
a blade of grass in these lawns arouses as much
ster. In Vanderveer Park. near near II sGfgE'
place. the householders have offered prizes
lawn, and if a COW or a horse happens to geu
loose and seek refreshment thercabouts much
The neiehbors all maintain that Mccarthy
can't pass a nice green bit of grass W thout hav-
PLANTATION Of most Oh his troubles is that his
leasts are unusually cantankerous, but some.
of the law that he cuts himself off from this
, excuse. Some years ago one of his cows was
and fined. He was told that he must tie his ami
: mails or suffer the Consequences. AS soon as he
= tied it to the cows horns. Then he got a shingie
. and tied the other end Of the rope to the shinFle,
a he said, and he turned her loose.
. When arrested his defence awaited him moth.
, In the days before Mccarthy knew as much
about police court procedure as he docs know
: casion he retained William J. Gaynor. who was
7 then a STRUGGLING young attorney but is now a
Cling. II was one of the old COW cases. and. Of
. course. the owner of the animal was nulctcd.
yer name may be Gaynor. but ye're a loser"
, and SINCE that time he has barred the honorable
The iirst time that Mccarthy ever came be-
= fore Justice steers was in a case where James
rllZpitTltks u IaTlucT, wa complainant. flT-
patrick went into his corniicli one, night and
found two horses making free with the fast
ripcning ears. He was furious, and discover
ing that tho intruders belonged to Mccarthy.
had the latter arrested,
How'd We know them wor my horses r.
asked Mccarthy IN cross-examination. "Wor
they red or black .,
They were red"
Bed. eh Had they toor legs err flyer
"Foor, ehi War they horses or Nightmares
now fer shure T. demanded Mccarthy. But this
was too much for the Court, and the cross
examination ceased. Mccarthy, was fined $50.
anger. Not n clint will the dommed Joodg0
git O. me. III pa? the Sheriff instid."
. So he let himself be cartcd to the Sh%criff's Of
thus to keep it from the judges purse. But
FIatbush had just been annexed to Brooklyn
and Justices fees abolished. When they told
served no purpose he sworc irightfully.
But the old fellow is not always sore at his
bitches with the lazy. When in his cups he is
reached the century mark OF his arrests, and he
celebrated the occasion with great zcst. but lit
tic caution. Having INDUCED mt the flowing
stood in front OF the Grant street Police Court
and declared with much pride that he owned
every brick in the building.
| fines"
. Continuing his celebration. he was before the
! Court tho next morning and was started on hio
Mccarthy cottage and his barn. where his live
stock should stay but don.t, are side by side. They
twenty feet deep. The barn looks as it were
about to fall in. Recently the owner found
that his hack yard contained n gravel bed.
lie straightwny began TO sell 1t by the load. He
kept nj it until one more load would certainly
have topplcd the barn over and then began NIL
ing up the pit with. ashes. Now all persons who
them out of sight for fear Mccarthy will use
i, them for his back yard.