The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-19
NABBED AT MAYORS OFFICE.
TAMMANI OFFICEHOLDER IN
CUSTODY or UNITED STATES.
Daniel Oshea. 7Oth District. Sesler Of
weights and Measures, Accused Of
lmpersOnating OCOnneil NJ ttNil
Service ENam.-O'COnneii Arrested.


Daniel O'Shea, a sealer Of weights and
measures employed by the city and Tam
many holdover under the Low adlninistra-
ton, and jeffrey O'Connell a salesman for
a Third avenue liquor firm. were arrested
yesterday by the United States authorities,
charged with conspiring to deiraud the
Federal Government by means of All it,
legal civil service examination scheme.
In October Of last year. IL is ail'g ID
O'Shea took an examnat ion for Customs
clerk In Brooklyn by posing as O'Connell.
who Is said tn be his friend and who was
an applicant for place in the customs
service
The authorities discovered the deception
and the two men were indicted by the Fed
eral Grand jury in BROOKLYN last February
but until yesterday all efforts to find them
tailed. the United States officials in Kings
county believing both men were Brook
lynites and not seeking them elsewhere.
yesterday they learned that the men were
residents OF Manhattan and sent the In
dlctments and bench warrants for OShea
and OConnell TO United States Marsha!
Henkel
Certain inquiries made by the Marshal
convinced him that O'Shea could he founa
| az the Chy Hall and he sent Deputy Mar
shalr McAviney and Kennedy there in com
pany with man who said he could identify
oShea. The trio learned that O'Shea " as
they took him into custody and starred
prisoner. The mar, who poin,ed out 1 o Shea
To the deputies went along and when the
| quartet were half way through the park
oShea became ugly and attempted Ia
When McAviney and Kennedy got their
man to the emf rance Of the Federal Building
q Snea, who had evidently got the idea that
they were detectives from Police Headauar-
tiers. drew back and declared that az he was
on Federal territory he didn't think he
would accompany them any further.
| You fellows haven't got any authority
here, he announced. Il won't go with
yai."
| oh, guess you will. We're United
states Marshals." said McAyincy. showing
| OShea struggled 10 get away. and the
/ deputies had 70 use force to Ct him 20
The strong room where he wac locked up
See Marshal Henkel
Say, Marshal said he, wher that official
| To drink"
should say not responded the Mar
| shall. This is a strictly Temperance lodC-
ing Place And the Marshal pointed % a
large NO smoking sign Oh tn wall and
| withdrew
Later O'Connsll was arrested by Deputy
Marshals McAviney and Kerker at his
home. l04 East Ninety-seventh street. He
said he was a salesman for NJ j Jennings,
wholesale and retail liquor dealer at Third
avenue and Forty seventh street. Both
men waived examination before United
States Commissioner Shields sni were
remanded for trial in the United States
Circuit Court in Brooklyn
OShea Ia said To be of some prominence
in Tammanv circles in the Twenty min, h
Assembly district He gave his address
as 6ss Lexington avenue.
O'Shea's wife said last night that he went
| to tho Mayors Office yesterday 10 see why
he hadn't been summoned there n week
| ago TO answer the Mayors n,ies, ion on
work of the department as all the other
sealers had been. She said he had been
public schoolteacher and a parochial
| school'each"r and had held his present
| job four or five years. O'Shea is known
| as rather clever accountant. He worked
| two years as a clerk in the Custom House