DIED IN POVERTY

Evening Star, Issue 18833, 6 January 1925, Page 5

DIED IN POVERTY

TRAGEDY OP AN EX-M.P. How a former Irish M.P. and wellknown Anglo-Australian journalist died friendless and in poverty in London, at the age of sixty-nine, was revealed at an inquest at St. Pancras on MrJames Francis Hogan. He represented Tipperary as a Nationalist in Parliament from 1895 to 1900. , , Mrs Jenny, who keeps a boarding-house in Doughty street, told a newspaper reporter that Mr Hogan had lived in her house for about a year, and it was only at the inquest that she learned he had been an M.P. “ He came to me about a year ago in rags," she said, “having been refused admittance elsewhere. He looked like a tramp, and I did not want to take him in, but he was such an object of pity that I had not the heart to turn him away. “ Ho had no {rends, and did not receive a single letter. Ho was a terrible object to look at, and several boarders _ left my house on account of him. But it would have been un-Christian to turn him out. Poor though he was, he always paid mo promptly. Where he had his meals I do not know. He frequented the museums a good deal, I believe. About a week ago 1 noticed a change in him, and at nights he had a cough. I don’t think he could afford to see a doctor."