SAN DIEGO POLICE

HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

This Jack Brady wanted poster was sent to the San Diego Police Department in 1895 as a statewide manhunt was in full swing. His victim, Sheriff John J. Bogard, was a passenger on the north bound Oregon express train when it was forced to stop between Wheatland and Reed Station and held up by two suspects. As one of the suspects was going from car to car robbing the passengers, he was confronted by Sheriff Bogard, who shot and killed him when he pointed his gun at the Sheriff.

Jack Brady was standing guard outside and quickly entered the car behind Sheriff Bogard and shot him in the back. Several weeks later Brady was captured in Yolo County.

He was convicted of first degree murder on November 19, 1895, and sentenced to life in prison.

He was paroled in the 1930s.