Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1892 — O’SULLIVAN PASSES AWAY. [ARTICLE]

O’SULLIVAN PASSES AWAY.

The Iceman Breaths Ills Last in Joliet Penitentiary.

At the prison in Joliet, 111., Patrick O’Sullivan, imprisoned for life for complicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin, at Chicago, drew his last breath at 7:40 o’clock Thursday evening. He passed away peacefully, as if falling asleep. No one was with him but a brother from lowa, his sister, Miss O’Sullivan, and a brother from Wisconsin. He was in a condition of semi-consciousness for the first time in a week, and recognized his sister and Dr. Ferguson, the prison physician, but said nothing. The doctor was not with him when he died. He was conscious just before his death and knew the end was approaching. His last words were: “Tell the world I died proclaiming my innocence to the last."