A VANISHED FORTUNE.
PROCEEDINGS IN CORCORAN INHERITANCE CASE. (Per Independent Service.) DUBLIN, March 14. The Vice-Consul for the United States here has testified that Corcoran fully understood the nature of the documents that he assented to at the consulate. The jury disagreed regarding the question of insanity, and were discharged. Several experts testified that Corcoran was perfectly sane. Counsel for Corcoran’s son contended that the publication of the cabled explanations sent by United States lawyers amounted to gross contempt of court.
The Dublin Courts have been investigating the case of a man named Corcoran, wiio, while living in a state of squalor, inherited £250,000 from an American relative. He was said to be insane. In the first place, it was alleged the American attorney dealing with the matter misrepresented the value of the inheritance to Coi'coran, while in the second place an Irish solicitor netted £30,000 out of it, and Corcoran himself received only £I2OO net.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 March 1911, Page 6
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