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Ii% t io^ly disappeared,,during mo monin ^iterit’s864 data IsJa|l; of June or July. mi11 “in 1889, nothing being hoard from l»y. ' him, his name was dropped from tlio famll rolls, but about a your ago William B. W. Ott, who at that time was a court lip- Uvkh stave, tiled an application as a Com- visit! mitleo In Lunacy in charge of McCann’s M| estate, praying the Commissioner of S|“ Pensions to restore MoCann’s .name to Mra the rolls. W; H. i Slioliftir* at thatNorristown Asylum 1 or ihoiusnne to identify the man. This they easily did, haying known McCann for twenty-, iiye years. His loft arm had been’shot' oft* at the shoulder joint, affording very good means for identification.Inal ••They fount! the once-prosporous doh I news-dealer a raying lunalhs, and thoutts* learned for the first lime, that, In 1880, nd- at the time of his disappearance, ho Lu* had Iwon picked up by iho ptU«« fo1'-the acting riotously on the street, and had tor-' btiou sunt to the asylum. Both the uf-Ji'k. 1 iloiais hud known that McCann Had the been possessed of real OBtato in West (cl), Philadelphia, and also that ho had a it’tth Ison and an adopted daughter liylng in this city. They were somewhat sur*'ftls-1 prised to find that Mr. Ott, who is no ttri- rulalivo, should liuvo been appointed itod ! to take charge of tlio affairs of the Ui-nna sane man. , , .uv, ‘'Although thoy made some eilort toMiClarKeaiandMat 0 deptboreMof tiben L. TPiRov Tea it isTspopi aicloiiM|AA ^ I r v# vjV discoyor McCann's rolatiycs, they were },QrtheinTnot successful, and Mr. Ott’s appointmont being perfectly regular the entire 1846 j amount of the back pension money baa had been paid over to him. the CommU-Um: sioncr of Pensions having acted favor-L., ably on the application,hasPatter.Jof iplaIn r
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Shenango Valley News
Greenville, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Jun 08, 1894
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