CRIME RECORD.
SENTENCED FOR FRAUD
LONDON, Sept. 17. The trial of Michael Dennis Corrigan, engineer and racehorse owner, on charges of fraud, concluded to-day at the Old Bailey. Corrigan was sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. Corrigan, who is aged 46, represented himself as employed by an oil company at a salary of £56,000 a year. He obtained £IB,OOO from a Mrs Harrold. _ .. Corrigan first attracted police attention when he was a second-grade steward on a steamship. He then joined the Ministry of Munitions calling himself Major Cassidy. Later, for five years he exploited imaginary concessions in Yucatan (a Central American peninsular), ruining several victims, his frauds exceeding £IUO,000. In passing sentence, the Judge said that Corrigan had been guilty of bad and cruel frauds. ' Corrigan showed no mercy. One wealthy man 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.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 252, 19 September 1930, Page 7
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158CRIME RECORD. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 252, 19 September 1930, Page 7
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