SUICIDE IN CELL
MAYFAIR PLAYBOY AND CONFIDENCE MAN RAGED HORSES IN ENGLAND ; LONDON, Oct, 16., Michael Dennis Corrigan, the 49-year-old Mayfair playboy, . was this morning found hanging in a. cell at Brixtoh Prison while awaiting trial oil charges of obtaining money by false pretences. The ‘ Evening Standard ’ says Corrigan was an international confidence man. At various times he passed himself off, as a rebel Mexican army general and an oil king. He raced horses in England before he went bankrupt; and was warned off race courses.
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Evening Star, Issue 25927, 19 October 1946, Page 10
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86SUICIDE IN CELL Evening Star, Issue 25927, 19 October 1946, Page 10
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