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Kate Moran, unlike Lawrence Saddler, offers no "respectable" references, but a letter from
a man named John Kenedy saying that he will give her permission to build on his lot and
attesting that she is "A Destitute and Severer Suffer[er] By the Late Disastrous Fire and has
A Large Family & yo[u]ng children None of them Able to Help them Selfs...." Her
application contains the comment, "Investigate carefully see whether she owns house." The
other documents appear to be notes of the Society's "visitor" who handled the case. The
assessment: "A perfect fraud. Has been living here 5 [?] years. A hard drinking woman.
Never lost a cent. Owns house here & has been drunk nearly all the time. Would give her
nothing...."
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