Show HOW CHARLES OCONOR DIED I A Strange Story From lYsuituckct About the Great L > aivyer For some time back says a Nantucket telegram to the Brooklyn Eagle there has been much talk here concerning the closing clos-ing hours in the life of the great lawyer Charles OConor lIe built a handsome house at a short distance from this town and there he lived a comparatively secluded se-cluded life With only two or three residents resi-dents was he on anything like familiar terms As may readily be imagined the agents of the Associated Press were anxious anxi-ous to get all the facts respecting the last illness of so remarkable a man They depended I de-pended for such information as they could i upon a few persons who gathered what I news they could in their visits to the OConor residence whither their business I called them There was absolutely no direct communication between the house and the town When the dread messenger messen-ger performed his last mission it was rumored ru-mored that Mr OConor had upon his deathbed received all the consolation which the church could give For years he was the representative lay Catholic of the country having been lay delegate to the great Ecuminical council at Rome With such a record no one could doubt that all the sacred rites of the church had been invoked to ease the final passage of so faithful a soul If rumor however is to be credited Charles OConor left the world with much simplicity of exit It is known that Bishop Hendticks of Massachusetts hearing of Mr OConors illness witnout request came to the island to administer to the dying man the last rites of the church The newspapers reported the visit and gave particulars of the solemn scene at the deathbed Bi hop Ilendricl it is trae went to the house where the sick man lay On reaching it he was met by a near relative of Mr OConor who told him that she could not communicate of municate his presence or the object his visit to Mr OConor as she had been especially requested by him to prevent from visiting him for religious any person The bishop said that he purposes inform Mr thought it was her duty to OConor that he was there and that he had come expressly to administer spiritual consolation The lady replied that she did not desire to incur Mr OConors displeasure and declined the mission of The bishop with the acquiescence the lady then applied to an intelligent who held some position in Mr person OConnors household and who was herself her-self Catholic She volunteered to visit OConnors a room and tell him that Mr was there to administer the the bishop and last rites of the church She did so returned with the answer that Mr OCon that to the bishop desired her to say nor clothed he wished to see no one who came and that he declined with sacerdotal power clined his offices as he desired to die a simple Christian This is the story that has been current for some time here and it is vouched for Even if to know who ought by persons Charles OConnor died repudiating the sacraments of the church he was nevertheless never-theless buried in St Patricks cathedral New York |