, 1875-06-26
FOND DU LAC.
4 Queer Family muhdl,

4 Queer Family muhdlo.
Special bfsIdteh to The CAscaao Tribune.
FoNp pu Lac, Wls., Juno o5.-On the 18th Of
juno, 1874, gentleman from Waupun was in
troduced to Col. G. Il. Pier III Mr.. Corrigan, who
desired to borrow $500 for year. Az security
he would gtyo a first mortgage on lis farm near
Waupun Village, worth from $1,000 to s9,000
Nexs day Corrigan brought In m abstract which
was perfect, showing tho tito to be In Anthony
CorrIgnn. 1Io touained in town more Of iosa
for sono timo, engaged In tho flult~trcc busi-
ncsB. few months aftor making the loan
mentioned. he applied for anothsr loan. this
t,me for 5000 for alxty days. Tho abstract WAS
brought down, and the monoy pasacti oser. When
due he paid It. When tho iirst mortgage bocamo
due. tho 10th Of this month"; Corfigan asked tho
Colonel TINT ho be giyon until tho 2lst, as hts
When tho a1st camo Col. Pier wan not . little
surprised to leasn that the mnn who bad bor-
roWcd tho money wns not Anthony Corrigan
at ali;, sh"t his namo waa Thomas
arro.s At waupun charged a7 'os Wit forsoly uay.
After learning Tits, Col. Pier wns not SLOW il.
getting Sheriff on tho young n,an's track
sheriff hlo'z wont to Wsppun occurred tho
same evening. With tho officer aud prisoner
onno old Mr. Corrtgan aud daughter. Asa
mRttor Of course tho father and sister werc III
great d1atrehs when they rcaclod hero and found
Wv bAo k1ub 6tAto u @n1uRs, 4ucY WAf0 Wtll1n1
to 20 to aimost any extent II by th1ir efforts
shey could bring about q refornj In Tom.
This VIVA not tho ilrst time he lad been
:n trouble. Tho young man, who had almoat
broAcn tho hcatt Of his mo:l4er, who bud
brought SORROW to his aged fathet, and fll!el Tho
Dyes Of biz noble HiHtcr with tears, seemed rc-
Pontant; confessed that lle had touo wrong,
aud promised ncyor to transgreHA nsalu. Tho
young man WAS given ono more chauce to re-
doom himself, tho fathor ratifying and confirm
lpK tie uA0 OF his name, aud executing a
mortgage bearing the Ha,1e lato as tile forEva
one, aud for lhe hamo amount. Tho yo,iIs MAu
admitB that the ,artos from whom he rot tho
money wero wronGol, and aaYs that Oycry dollar
Wan to b0 paid BY tho party for whom ls got 1t.
lie claims TINT for long time his mothor had
NAuted to sond money to 1roland to bring aons
friends to America that she inilod to get 1t
from lis father, 10 she got tho docd from tho
trunk mud told Tom, who neemB to bo " motlcr's
boy to borrow tho money aud mortgage tho
farm. and whom their relatlyos came thoy would
pay II back tho mortgaee would 30 taken up,
and tilo old gentlomnn would know nothing aboilt
it. 1lc says he got 81, 100 In currency. bought
gold draft nj Milwaukee,, and sent It to
Ireland. as his molhes wished, and tho relatives
came on. ard nTe at his fathers houso a: this
time. lie says lle laa bccn arrested bcfore be-
oauso parties holding hts fAther's noEo would
suddenly loarn that hla father could not write.
Thomas thinks that II ho had wanted to MAY
RASCAL lo could flago made = bigger haul than
81, l0o Tor Anthony CorriEan ts good for s2D,-
l0ll. And that fle would not hAyo remained hero,
liable at my day 10 atrcut Tor State Prison Of
feuso. Thomas aaya he hluaAeit is worth s9, OOp.
aud now proposes to paddlo his own canoe, tight
here in Fond du Lac County.