CRUEL FRAUDS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 304, 19 September 1930, Page 11

CRUEL FRAUDS

Many Victims Ruined LARGE SUM INVOLVED Imaginary Concessions By Telegraph—Frew AMoeintio® —-Copyright. (Rec. September 18, 7.30 p.m.) London, September 17. The trial of Michael Dennis Corrl gan, engineer and racehorse owner at the Old Bailey, where he was sentenced to five years’ penal servitude for fraud, revealed an astonishing record of crime. Corrigan, who now is forty-six years of age, represented himself as employed by the Standard Oil Company at a salary of £56,000 a year. He obtained £lB,OOO from Mrs. Harrold, whose daughter he also induced to become his mistress, Corrigan being already married. Corrigan first attracted police attention when he was a second-grade steward on a steamship. He then Joined the Ministry of Munitions, where he called himself Major Cassidy. Later, for live years he exploited Imaginary concessions in Yucatan, ruining several victims, his frauds exceeding £lOO,OOO. The judge, in sentencing Corrigan, said accused had been guilty of bad and cruel frauds. Corrigan showed no mercy. One wealthy nian lost everything and was obliged to become a clerk in an insurance office, while Corrigan lived in luxury at the best hotels in England and France.