MERCILESS FRAUDS

Northern Advocate, 19 September 1930, Page 5

MERCILESS FRAUDS

ARCH CRIMINAL’S CAREER

LIVED IN LUXURY. VICTIMS LEFT LAMENTING. I (United Press Association—By Electrio Tel egraph—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, September 17. The trial of Michael Dennis Corrigan, engineer and ox-racehorse owner, at the Old Bailey, where he was sentenced to five years’ penal servitude for fraud, revealed an astonishing record of crime. Corrigan, who is 46 .years of age, represented himself as employed by the (Standard Oil Company at a salary of £56,000 yearly. He obtained £IB,OOO from Mrs Harrold, whose daughter ho also induced to become his mistress, Corrigan being already married. He first attracted police attention when ho was a second-grade steward on a steamship. He joined the Ministry of Munitions, where ho called himself Major Cassidy. Later for five years lie exploited imaginary concessions in Yucatan, ruining several victims, his frauds exceeding £IOO,OOO The Judge in sentencing Corrigan said that accused had been guilty ot bad and cruel frauds. Corrigan showed no mercy. One wealthy man lost everything and was obliged to become a clerk in an insurance nffice, while Corrigan lived in luxury at the best hotels in England and Prance.