Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-05
ANTHONY CARROLL MOVES,

He Brings Grave Charges Against the 1 Management of the St. Francis Or l pinan Asylum and Petitions the Leg is1ature for an Investfgation. 1 The local sensation of the hour is furnished ! by Anthony Carroll. For some time Mr Carroll has had watchful eye upon the St. Francis Orphan asylum and he has convinced himself, so he says, that the institution needs investigation. He proposes to have the leg islature examine the affairs of the asylum and see whether they have been properly conducted. MT. Carroll brings some very grave charges, claims that the funds are mis- appropriated, that sufficient care is not exer- cised in placing the children in homes after they leave the asylum, and that every mem
 Der of the corporation should be removed for
 violating the charter. But let Mir. Carroll
 speak for himself in his petition which is as
 follows:
 To the honorable General Assembly of the State
 of Connecticut to be holden at Hartford on the
 Wednesday after the first Monday of January, A.
 D. 1885
 The undersigned, Anthony Carroll of the city and
 town of New Haven in said State of Connecticut,
 That the St. Francis Orphan asylum in the
 city and town of New Haven, is present governed
 neglect of the duties incumbent on them, have iri-
 volved the institution hopelessy in debt, and have
 in various ways violated the constitution and by
 laws of it's charter, and who refuse to make state
 ment of the true financial condition of the institu
 tion, and who likewise refuse to allow the books of
 the same to be examined by any competent and dis
 2-That certain sums of money subscribed and donated for the purpose of sustaining the afore- cers of said institution to other uses and never reached the end for which they were given
 3.-AdmisSion to the asylum is denied to children
 left orphans unless the board of the same shall be guaranteed by parent or guardian, thereby const- tuting it not an orphans home but boarding house.
 Inasmuch as the facts above cited are capable of to the & Raf of tRe therein contained and that such action be taken as And your petitioner furthermore prays that, in | view of the aforementioned allegations. which, if Prepared to substaniate the present board of trus tees and incorporation shall be removed and in fitted to properly conduct the affairs of the tion in whom the public will have more confidence; and that the charter of said corporation be amend cd in accordance with the prayer of this applica- ton. ANTHONY CARROLL. !
 This remarkable and startling petition was served on Messrs. c. T. Driscoll and Timothy l 5ution, one of the corporation and the other | of the board of managers, by Deputy Sheriff ! 5piegel on Friday, the 26th of December, in accordance with the law that such petitions hall be served twelve days before the legis- ature meets, and also copy has been sent 0 the Secretary or OtaCe- MeSSrS. DflScOIl ! md Fox are thns cited to appear before the egislature to show cause why the charter 1 hould not be amended and every member of he corporation be removed Representative lect Pigott will bring the matter before the | egislature.
 The affair has grown out of a refusal Of he managers to allow MT. Carroll to examine ! he books. Mr. Carroll claimed that as the ! sylum was chartered institution the books hould be open to the public. He drew up etition to that effect and presented it to 'ather Mulcahy. The priest agreed to pre- ent the petition to the board of managers ! ' mich was to meet at his residence that even lg, which was something less than a year go The next day Father Mulcahy told MT arroll that he had presented the petition, ut could say nothing as to its disposition l nd that was all the satisfaction Mr. Carroll ould get. IT
 The officers of the asylum are: President, 1shop McMahon; vice president, Father awlor; treasurer, Charles Atwater; secreta- 7, Timothy J. Fox; board of managers, Bishop E cMahon, Fathers Cooney, Russell, LawIor, ulcahy, Schaele, Mulholland, and Bernard l + eilly, c. T. Driscoll, Francis Donnelly, AL lander Emery, Patrick McKenna, P. Cree m, Charles Pallman, Wm. Geary, James Key olds, Patrick Maher, Frank Chandler, John I tarrs; superintendent, Father Mulholland. 4 he board of managers is chosen from the embers of the corporation. The corpora on consists of the bishop of the diocese, le priests and three laymen in each parish d New Haven.
 The affair will make great deal of talk gre and elsewhere and it will be great sur rise to Catholics and citizens generally, as le general opinion has been that the asylum as well managed.