Show THOMAS VOW YOW why ifo ile refuses to accept a large I 1 fortune walting for or wm jilin in ireland philadelphia times tam amt s PALM pa july 21 regularly every year thomas conroy an industrious shoemaker of this village receives official notice from dublin ireland that a fortune of with the acau of 26 20 years is in bank there awaiting his order and find regularly every year he sends back lord word that he be will never touch a penny of the money until ho he ha had justice done him in another way thomas conroy now 50 years bears of age was born in the province of leinster ireland where the firm of conroy brothers had a monopoly of supplying bread and liquor to soldiers in the barracks near dublin michael ichael Al conroy one of the firm was thomas conrays Oon Con roys father and the other member of the firm was thomas conroy an uncle when young thomas conroy waa was 19 9 his father died his mother had been dead some som years eyears his father left a will directing that when thomas became of age he lie should hould s be paid whatever the amount ortho interest odthe of the deceased man in the supply business was young youna conroy took up his residence with his uncle thomas in dublin the young oun man was well educated and high igli spirited the conroy family being of the higher class there was another uncle named patrick who had bad married a woman beneath him in social standing his cifes sister had a daughter seventeen years of age and it occurred to patrick that he be would be pleased to have his nephew thomas marry his niece when it waa was proposed to young conroy he refused to listen to it and aroused the enmity of his uncle patrick thereby and the latter sought means to revenge himself on lug his nephew for thwarting his plans at A t that time the order of mollie maguires which originated in ireland was very strong there their lawless acts had stricken into of bloder th e order bvm was V altet to exist patrick conroy determined to use this order to retaliate on hi hii nephew and one day he lie called on his brollier brot lier thomas and revealed to t him the tile pretended fact that young thomas was not only a member ot of the mollie iollie maguires but that lie was secretary and bookkeeper of the local lode lodge and had bad a list of its members A number of f outrages had bad been perpetrated in dublin about that time which had been traced to this very lodge and the lelder conrays Con roys anger was unbounded when he learned that his nephew was connected with the criminals summoning Sum moring the young man to him ho bo charged him with his alliance with the hated mollies this aroused the blood of young conroy who was strongly op opposed to the order of which he was charged with beida being a member and upon being tol told tl that at the charge was made upon the word of ins his uncle P patrick atrick the young man denounced him as a liar and a villain thos conroy the elder c commanded amman his nephew to immediately apologize abjectly to patrick bior for liis his WN disrespectful respectful language or leave tho the house forever young conroy indignantly dign antly refused tu to apologize and repeating his words declared that ho lie would not remain another moment among flesh and blood that had SQ belied dimand then left lert the house with twelve guineas in his pocket ho lie sailed for america he ile land cd ed in new york in 1858 A former acquaintance ohis lived in calli coon on the erie railia railway and young conroy hunted him up tip from there he went on foot dobir to birs ming bam hamand and from there started to walk to new orleans where ho he had a friend in passing through the village of mount pleasant in this county ho lie stopped 1 1 to p ped at the shop door at of the village 1 1 g c shoemaker and while watching ng him lihn at tit ins ill work wo rk became so interested in it that he asked the shoemaker if he lie did lid not want an apprentice the shoemaker did and young conroy went to work when conroy came of age he lie re notice from his uncle I 1 that hat he was entitled to irum their business and that it awaited his ilia order he ile sen sent t back the word he be has sent every year since that when they apologized to tu him and confessed they had bad wronged him by the charges they ina duade do against hi him in in u ireland he lie would goto go to ireland and claim cwm the money and never before when U conroy aroy learned hi trade he lie mar married rieda a miss delaney and went to work for himself at tanners falls he ile is obliged to work hard han and constantly to support himself and family and yet he will not b break rea kIlie tho vow lie took when ho he left his ri native active land to never visit I 1 again 0 or r touch one ove penny of the 1 wealth I th he was entitled to unless his uncles confessed to him that they had wronged him |