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From: Alison Causton <>
Subject: Armagh Guardian newspaper: Wm. R. DERINSEY absconded to NewBrunswick
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 06:30:15 GMT


Transcribed from the 7 January 1848 issue of The Armagh Guardian newspaper,
by permission of The British Library:

A Fugitive from Ireland Arrested.--The
'Boston Post', of January 15, says:--"In August last
Wm. R. Derinsey, an inspector of finance in Monaghan
county, Ireland, arrived at New York, and exchanged
Bank of England notes to some amount for New Jersey
money. Proceeding to New Brunswick, and deposit-
ing his funds in the state bank there, he bought a farms
on the Ratitan and settled with a wife. Mr. Thornton,
of the London detective police, arrived in the
Caledonia last week in pursuit of him. With the aid of
officers Hays, Gilbert, and Stevens, the transaction
at Taylor's office was ascertained, and the fellow thus
traced to New Brunswick, where Hays, on Monday,
applied to a magistrate for a warrant, which could
not be properly issued. Hays then called at Derinsey's
house, professedly with a message that a portion of
the money he received from the Wall-street broker
was bad, and that he would do well to see him imme-
diately. Hays left on receiving a note to Mr. Taylor
that he would see him next day. Leaving an agent in
New Brunswick to watch and telegraph his move-
ments, Hays returned to the city, and upon Derinsey's
arrival at Cortlandt-street, is charged, with having
absconded with over 3,000 dols, [sic] of the donations en-
trusted to his care as treasurer by the British com-
missioners of public works for his starving countrymen
in Monaghan. He was in this country six years ago,
and left a wife and two children here. Shortly after
embezzling the relief funds, it is said he married ano-
ther wife abroad, from whom he obtained some 1,500
dols. more, and then deserting her, fled to this coun-
try, and joined his first wife and children. On being
arrested, he confessed the embezzlement, and refunded
some 2,000 dols. Thomas Warner, Esq., counsel for
the British officer, proceeded to Washington for au-
thority to deliver him for trial in England."

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Alison Causton
Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia

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