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Show HI One-Time Millionaire, Race HI Track Horse Owner, Down HI and Out. H OYER SEVENTY YEARS H OLD, AND WEALTH GONE HI Built Ingleside, Elm Ridge, and H i Helped Finance City H I CHICAGO, May 29. Edward Corri-gnn, Corri-gnn, 'Master of Hawthorne," and re- , garded as the most picturesque figure j in the history of the American turf, I is "broke." Hawthorne . race track, i his most cherished possession, has fjj ' pnssed from him. Hf The old man, who has fought his way Bn into more trouble than usually comes to the lot of a mortal, left Chicago a HI I few da3's ago with $2000 in his packet. Hj This inoncv, the practical Rift of an old friend and business associate, repre- H sonts about all- that is left of his once H . great fortune. Broken in spirit after H S all of these years p fighting and brok- H en in fortune, he is in Lexington, Ky., HI i at t lie bedside of his dying wife. HJ i Tlio Corrigan race tracks, tho Corri- gnn horses, once famed on both sides HI , of the Atlantic; the great Corri pan HJ i stock farm in Kentucky, the Corrigan H , power, that made him feared wherever men race horses; tho Corrigan millions Hj ! all of these have passed away in the ; latter days of the life of the turfman, k who is now over 70 years old. Deeds Away Track. H . Yesterday thcro was placed on rec- ord iu the" recorder 's office of Cook jj county u deed hy which Corrigan. and his wife, both of Kentucky, quit- claimed to former Alderman Tom ; Carey their equities in a three-quarter interest in the Hawthorne raco track Hi ; property for $26,000. As a matter of HI !j fact, all that Corrigan actually re- HI ,1 ceivod for the propcrtj- was .$2000. HI t The Foreman Bros. Banking company H held a note signed bv Corrigan and in- H f dorsed by Carey, tt -was for $24,000 H 2 nnd. was duo May 2i. Corrigan could H not meet tho note. His fortune had H j been dissipated. But ho found time to H i write to his old friend Carey. H i "Torn, I'm broke and I can't pa- H j that note that 3'ou arc on," is about H j what ho said. "T haven't, any tiling H I left except my interest in Hawthorne. H Tako up my note for me when it is H duo and I'll deed you Hawthorne. It's H tough, but it is the best that I can HI And Care3r -wrote back: "All right, Ed. I'll give you $26,000, and that'll be $2000 to tho H good for you." HJ Corrigan built tho Ingleside track in San Francisco, the Elm Ridge track in Kansas City, and helped to finance the HJ City Park track in New Orleans. He HJ conducted, breeding establishments in California and Kentucky and sent rac- , Ing strings to England. H Victim of Legislation. Every dollar he had was invested in HJ horses and things pertaining to thorn. HJ But he could race nowhere but on his HJ own tracks. Then the law came along fl end stopped them. On May 4 last Corrigan was sued in Lexington, Kv., by John W. Gates for HJ $38,000. Gates alleged that Corrigan HJ gave him 42S shares of stock in the New Orleans Jockey club as security, HJ but '-when sold they" brought but $234S. HJ Gates asked judgment for the re-mainder re-mainder of his claim. Tho suit was re-garded re-garded as the finishing stroke to the HJ fortune of Corrigan. |