Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1893 — REV. PETTIT DEAD. [ARTICLE]

REV. PETTIT DEAD.

rhe Noted Convict Expires at the Northera Prison Friday Evening, A dispatch from Michigan City to the Indianapolis Sentinel, Friday, says: W. F. Pettit died at 6:30 this evening, lying In the director’s office at the prison. He was discharged from the prison roll this morning. He lay quietly all day, speakIng only in whispers. At one time he said: I have-agood word, btftlt came too late.’ He died without mentioning his case, and has never discussed it any time since he came here. He never discussed spiritual matters in prison and died silent on that subject. At 3 o’clock he asked for milk, drank half a glass and said to the doctor, ‘Pack my trunk.’ He then laid back on the pillow and died. He would have gone to Crawfordsivlle to-morrow. He came here January 13,1891, worked on a chair contract until last April, when consumption took him to the hospital. His only anxiety has been the securing of a new trial. He expressed to the warden a desire to be buried beside his wife at Oswego, N. Y. His age was thirty-five. His body was embalmed and is now awaiting orders from his friends.