The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-05-02
PAT SURVIVES HIS
DEATH And BURIAL.
RETURN TO HEAR OF FINE FUNERAL
GIVEN HIM BY Wife AND FRIENDS
BURIED The WRONG MAN.

His wife and his friends Wept over
his bier and laid flowers on his grave
last February 81, but Patrick Corcoran
is back home and he says he's not a
ghost: :.
Patrick's reception upon his uneX-
pected return after he was mourned
for dead and his friends had contri-
buted to community fund to give him
a swell funeral, even exceeded the
wake" held for him.
While Patrick escaped the grave,
his old pal, Patrick Hannigan, whom
Corcoran had sent to the Philadelphia
Hospitals farm at Byberry in 1911,
was buried for him.
Patrick il o. little bit perplexed
over the mistake, the friends who
boosted the funeral fund, think it a
big joke, but Patrick's wife, --who
lives i'm court at the rear of $40 ).
9Th st., Philadelphia is peeved.
ITO think OF all the money spent
on that funeral" she means. Every
dollar I had saved. Wasn't 1t grand
And to think should have this sor-
row at this time Oh my life!"
Even Patrick Dugan, salOonkeeper,
who parted with enough money to
buy nice black suit in which Patrick
was buried" shakes his head in
establishment. NH"
'T was at the funeral" said Dugan.
"I looked right at him, and so did his
other friends. We all said, Doesn't
he look natura1?"
Corcoran, who il fifty-two and Jack
OF all trades. is partly responsible for
the mixup. He, disappeared from his
home, but explains he was i'll in a
hospital. ''
Patrick Hannigan, whom Corcoran
had once befriended, died, meanwhile
at Byberry. When Hannigan was ad-
mitted to the hospital, he gave Cor
coran as his closest friend, and also
the latter'sr address i'm Montrose it..
west Of 5th, where Corcoran then
lived.
Upon Hannigan's death, the hospital
according to DR.. Jackson, in charge
or the insane department, sent notice
to the Montrose street address. From
there it was forwarded to Mrs. Cor
coran.
l.. E. Ingenito, an undertaken, went
Tor the body. Word soon scattered
through the neighborhood Of Corcor-
ans death" and his friends, who
used to meet Corcoran at Dugan's de-
cided to do the elegant.
Everybody admits that Corcoran
was buried" with as much ceremony
as a generous collection would pro-
vide. The saloonkeeper Clipped in
the biggest piece of change, and Will
liam Bosher, teamster, was another
substantial donor. All the boys made
the hat, Jingle when it was passed.
Quite a number of the friends also
went to Holy Cross cemetery, where
the body was buried, and strew the
new grave with flowers. And Cor
coran became a memory, except to
Mrs. Corcoran, who received a small
insurance policy.
q neighbOr of Mrs. CorcOran espied
a familiar figure sauntering near
Christian. Corcoran open-eyed heard
the tale of his death and burial. The
friend pressed quarter into his
hand. 60 to .Dugan's and show
yourself" he requested. Corcoran
did.
Business is dull these piping days,
and there were not many bar-fiies in
Dugan's. But those there clutched
the rail, and shouted feebly for help
Hello, boys" was Corcoran's greeting
81 went and got the body, and they
told me it was Corcoran," said In
genito, the undertaken. THAT was
the name that went upon the certiff-
cate. Everybody said it was Cor
coran 1"