New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-06
two or three days Coroner's Physician Donlin VIII
make an autopsy on the body to-day.
AN OLD OFFENDER CAUGHT.
CAPTURE OF EUGENE oHARA. WHO HAS LONG
CRIMINAL RECORD.

CRIMINAL RECORD.
The police OF the Central Office have in their Gus
tody notorious offender and longtime fugitive
from Justice in the person of James Brown alas
Eugene OHara whose number in the Rogues Gal
lery is ss3 He was arrested at 2:25 o'clock yester-
day morning at Sixth-ave. and Twenty-nlAth-st.'
where ne standing with several other suspl-
cious characters by Detectives Valley and OCon-
nell. Of Acting Captain McClusky's staff. and was
nromptly led away Police Headquarters Inc
prisoner was arragned in the jefferson Market
Court later in the day. and was remanded back 10
the Central Office.
O'Hara as he is generally known. described h M
self as forty-two years old railroad starter mar
RED and living in Bayonneave.. Jersey city by the
police Of nearly every State in the Union ne Is
recognized as a desperate criminal and he Is not
unknown on the other side Of the Atlantic
The prisoners record OF crimes committed In this
city Is a long one. Back in 1873. when ne was Ua'-
cling under the name OF Joe Bates he "dS
captured for highway robbery and was sentenced to
a term Of seven years in Sing Sing. After having
served his term he resumed his criminal career
and. on November %. 1875, he was arrested ~
Patrolman William Ketchale. Of the West lweh-
tieth-st station. for robbing a saloon lie Hdoe
desperate and tried 10 shoot ketchaIc a
he was being arrested. but was finally overpowered
and was safely landed in the station. AT the police
station he threatened TO kill Ketchae some day.
On August :, 1891 the body of Patrolman ketch-
ale found floating in the North River At
Fifty -nnth-st. The mystery which enveIoped the
drowning Of Ketchale, who was In run UNIFORM
when found, has not been cleared away TO thls
day. but It was currently believed that he had been
murdered and many thought that O Hara had
made good his threat of revenge. eSpecialE us co-
mon report had it that OHara had been seen lott
erng on Ketchale's post which lay along the North
River front.
Four days after the finding of the body of Ketch-
Will Pa Thomas Mcclure,
West Twenteth-st. station. was standing at IWen,
tieth-st and Seventh-ave at night - nara slrPp'a
knife three times into the polcemsn's back. Patrol
man Sherwood witnessed Tho occurrence ana sue
TO Jefferson Market Court where he held n
5000 bail. He remained in the court prison until
lid 81 ia saws and Shot from his bed O'iara cut
his way out Of the prison having sawed the bars Of
one of the windows and let himself down to the
he had made from bed sheet He then dropped
the ground and disappeared so far as tnf police
1t was learned that after his escape he went to
Colon. where he was joined by zoe. Shah ~ nan, "a
notorious burglar, who escaped about the s4me
time from a keeper who was taking him 10 Sing
Sing TO serve a sentence OF eighteen years. Snana-
of f'i large ee sums of money Alter his conviction ne
managed to escape from the General Sessions out
as he and his custodian were waiting in the Grand
Central Station shanahan 6T9kt Sway ana run
The two criminals joined forces and made their
and was Captured in Columbus Ohio for burglary
He served two and a half years there without
being recognized as an escaped criminal from New
York He released from the Ohio prison only
A short time ago.
1t was within a month that the police here heard
that O'Hara had been seen about bis old haunis.
Ali Of the members Of the detective staff were
warned TO keep a sharp lookout for him and were
ordered to. arrest him on sight on saiurday ad-
ditional information TO the effect that O.Hara was
becoming holder came 10 hand, and that night an
especial effort was made to apprehend him with
The result that he was captured by Drtectve-Ser-
Ceants Mcconnell and Valley.
As the prisoner is under indictment he will be
arraigned in General Sessions to-day.