The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-05-15

was as handy as a nurse and as tender
 as woman in handling the unfortunate
 victims of accidents suffering from
 painful injuries.
 | MT Began was a man of wonderful
 physical proportions. Over six feet in height and developed in proportion, he
 was fine specimen of physical man. hood He had always been in good
 health until during the last three or four | years. About four years ago his wife
 died, and he, who had always been a I family man and devoted to her and his home, was so deeply affected by her death that he never recovered from the
 blow. He mourned for her continually,
 and it was doubtless this which led to the physical ailments which ultimately
 caused his death.
 MT. Began was, on active duty up to
 about five weeks ago, when he was taken i'll and was obliged to take sick | leave. Since that time he had failed
 steadily and rapidly. The cause of his death was complication of diseases cystisis and oedema of the lungs He died about 11:15 o'clock yesterday morn ing at his home No. 979 State street. He leaves five children, two daughters and three sons. The daughters are Mrs, John W. King and Mrs. John Reagan of this city. The sons are Lawrence Beegan, John Began and Thomas Bee gan, all plumbers.
 MT. Began was born in Ireland on July 4, 1886, and came to this country when young man. He first worked at his trades of iron moulder and black smith in Springfield, Holyoks and other Massachusetts towns and later ran for some time on the Mississippi river steamboats when those boats were the chief means of communication with New Orleans and that section of the south.
 MT, Began was appointed a member of the New Haven police force In 1874, and had served continuously in the de- partment since that time. In October, 1882, he received honorable mention for meritorious service and in 1892 he was promoted signal officer. During his long term of police service he had done many excellent pieces of police work. One of them was his ferreting out of the looters of a Consolidated freight train at Cedar Hill and the sending of the men, New York crooks, to state prison. This was on July i, 1878. As a result of his work Richard J. Maher, Big" Joe Doyle and Michael Denneen were bound over to the superior court and they ultimately went to Wethers- field.
 Another case. and a banner one, was his discovery on the night of October IS, 1882, of the raid of New York burg lars upon Rogowskfs store 'on Chapel street. They had piled $2,000 worth of silk under the skylght and were mak- ing ready to be off with it. when Bee gan was making the midnight rounds He detected something at fault, and, crawling up to the top of the store in the rear, flashed bulFs-eye lantern into the building Two thieves within dashed headlong through the plate glass of the place in their fright. Policemen Driscoll and Cook, both of whom are now sergeants, captured one of them as they came through the window. He proved to be George Higgins, alias John Francis, a New York cracksman, twen- ty-two years of age, Higgins got four years in state prison.
 The funeral of MT Began will be held Thursday morning, the exact hour not yet being decided. The family are trying to arrange to have the funeral take place from St. Patricks church, of which the deceased was member be- fore the recent division in the parish. Since the division MT Began was in St. Joseph's parish but it is very likely that the family will arrange to hold the funeral from the former church of the deceased.