Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1912 — John F. McHugh, Counsel of The McCoys, is Dead. [ARTICLE]

John F. McHugh, Counsel of The McCoys, is Dead.

John F. McHugh, of Lafayette, well known here through his connection with the defense in the trial of the McCoys, died at 3:20 o’clock yesterday afternoon at St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Lafayette. He had been making a brave but hopeless fight for many weeks against the disease with which he had been suffering since the first of the year. He was partly conscious up to the very last. His remarkable constitution, pluck and vitality kept him alive many weeks longer that the physicians expected him to live. Mr. McHugh died from the complications that developed from gangrenous blood poisoning. Three toes on his left foot had been amputated in the hope of checking the disease, but the poison penetrated his system and finally caused hib death.