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Show oo HEARING III IHE CORCORAN CASE DUBLIN', March 7 Proceedings were resumed today in the matter of the petition of B. Corcoran to hae his father, Edwin Corcoran, adjudged insnne. The elder Corcoran is said, because of a weak mental condition, to have signed awa to American lnw-ers lnw-ers u large part of an estate inherited inherit-ed from his cousin, John Sullivan, of Seattle. Wash The son testified that In December, 1900, a lnwer, named Wright, called on his father with reference to the Sullivan inheritance. Subsequently, the lawyer took him to Cork, where, before the American counsel, he signed sign-ed a deed, ghing Wright half his Inheritance In-heritance In November, 1901, the witness said, his father recehed a letter from Mr. Howe, of the law firm of Piles, Don-worth Don-worth &. Howe, of Seattle, saying the property was worth $447,000. The witness then went to Cork nnd aBked Wright for a copy of the deed which bis father had signed. He was told it had been bent to America. Subsequently, Subse-quently, his father signed another deed, giving property to Wright for the stipulated sum of $50,000, which he never recehed. Opening for the defense the Right Honorable James H Campboll, M. P., characterized the action as an attempt to blackmail Corcoran's lawyers, which might hae succeeded but for the fact that tho elder Corcoran was satisfied with their treatment of him, and refused to assist in the action. |