Phenix Gazette

IMPOSITIONS DETECTED.

New York, Jan. 12. On Saturday last we published a letter, addressed to us through the Post Office, signed John Mullagan, and headed "sorrowful news." The letter then went on to state, that as he (Mullagan) and a Mr. Thomas Kiernan, of New-Brunswick, was crossing the ferry from Brooklyn to the city in a row boat, on Friday night, they run on to a cake of ice, and Kiernan got up with his oar to shove it off, and fell overboard and immediately sunk; that he had left a trunk at a strange house in New York, containing $8,000; and that he was to have been married in a few days. The writer requested us to make the facts known through the medium of the E. Post, that his friends might know his sad fate.

It turns out, on investigating the matter, both at New Brunswick and at our police office, that the writer of the letter was this very same Thomas Kiernan, who wished to make the public believe that he was drowned. He had carried on the distilling business in New Brunswick for two years past, and was in good credit and much respected. A few weeks previous to his leaving New Brunswick, he borrowed, in various ways, money to the amount of $800, and there is every reason to believe, that, instead of finding a watery grave in the East river, he took passage in the name of Thomas Whalen, of Ireland, in the packet ship Cortes, Capt. De Cost, for Liverpool, which sailed from this port last Saturday morning. The lady to whom it was said he was to have been married, when called before the Police, soon satisfied the justices, that Mr. Kiernan was not drowned. Letters of administration upon his estate had been taken out, and notice served upon his creditors and debtors with a view to a final adjustment of his concerns. Such daring attempts at fraud and imposition should be extensively exposed and exemplarily punished.

Ev. Post.