ASTONISHING RECORD

Inangahua Times, 19 September 1930, Page 1

ASTONISHING RECORD

Michael dennis corrigan ; PERPETRATES REMARKABLE < % FRAUDS t SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS' | PENAL SERATTUDE j (United Press Assn—By Electric j Telegraph—Copyright.) j ff LONDON, September 17. | The trial of Michael Dennis Corrig*an, engineeer and ex-racehorse owner, ait the Old Bailey, where he was’ sentenced to five years' penal servitude for fraud, revealed an astonishing re- ’ qb'rd of crime. j | Corrigan, who is now 46 years of age. represented himself as employed ify the Standard Oil Company at a salary of £46,000 yoarly. He obtained £IS,OOO from Mrs Harrold, whose' daughter he also induced to become %is mistress, Corrigan being already inarried. j iHe flrst attracted police attention , when he was a second grade steward - c[n a steamship. iHe then joined the ' Ministry of Munitions, where he called himself Major Cassidy. Later, for 5 years, he exploited imaginary j §ions in Yugaitan, ruining several victims, his frauds exceeding £IOO,OOO. | The Judge, in sentencing him, said aecusojl had boon .guilty of bad, cruel frauds. Corrigan showed no mercy. One wealthy man lost everything and #as obliged to become a clerk in an Insurance office, while Corrigan lived in luxury at the best hotels in England and France.