The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-09-29
"PAT" SWEEAy DEAD
Said to Have Been Knocked
Down by Buggy
He Died a. 2:3O Yesterday Afiernooh-3si"=tn
80 and 90 Years Of Agt--uneral
his All, rnoon.

Patrick Sweeney. ore OF the oldest gc>l-
dents OF Raleigh. died yesterday ~ $50
y. m. at his home. No. foS Cannon street
Friday afternoon. about - -loNh, a.
Mr.. Sweeney was returning hoUa, When
h. arrived IN front OF the re~ideu. q: j
j. Champion. Oh South West street. he
ua> knocked down. IN the street. near
the gutter. B! d horse and buggy. sa.a
TIL have been driven by Bob Burns. eol
oied. who keeps 4 grocery store On West
South street. near the railroad cross ag
1t seems that Nh. Sweeney had been up
town to order q load oi wood.
4 reporter interviewed Bob Burns last
night and ne admitted having passed the
spot whore the deceased fell, but sand ht
did not see Inn tMr. Sweeney AT that
hour. that a young 1iyear-old boy Was
with HIM pointing TO the boy) that 81
vas about 80 when ne passed up South
" est street. that his horse was walking.
said that he could see a. small a thing
as a cat at that point OF the street.
The reporter than called at the resi-
dence of the deceased. and the OPINION
there j. that Bob Burns ran over the
deceased. One scar an the right hand
showed that an accident had occurred
besides, parties in the nelghborhood stated
that Mr.. Sweeney had bruises on both
sides of his body.
Mr.. W. A. Champion, who lives just
opposite the place where Mr.. Swee-
ney fell, told a reporter that
he saw Bob Burns driving very
close to the gutter where Mr.. Sweeney
Mas walking (the Sidewalks beng 50 bad
that the old man took the streelD, that
Bob was driving fast, that ne could not
see Mr.. Sweeney when he was struck, as
- .. -+.,.., ~, ,.I +l- -,
ceased; but that Burns drew his horse
up when about fifteen yards from the
fallen man; turned his head around to
see what damage he had done; then drove
on at a rapid rate, without getting out OF
his buggy, as he thought he saw Mr..
Sweeney raising himself up, which be
partly did, but fell back unconscious.
Mr.. c. E. Childress, who keeps a gro
Gerry store on the corner of Cannon and
South West streets, and Mrs. Bunch ran
to the PROSTATE man, picked hum up and
carried hin to his residence on Cannon
street, where he died yesterday afternoon
at 2:30.
DR.. r. S. McGeacny, who was called III
to see Mr.. Sweeney at l O'Clock ycster-
day afternoon, SAID last night that he was
unable to tell just what was the cause
Of death, as Mr.. Sweeney was III eXtremls
when he reached the house. He examined
his body after death and found seVcral
superficial bruises, but no injury what
ever that could have possibly caused
death. However, he said that if Mr..
Sweeney had been knocked down by d
wagon or buggy, the shock could easily
have killed him.
No one claims that Bob Burns rode over
Mr.. Sweeney m~alciously, as he had no
cause to hold a grudge against him.
Mr.. Sweeney was between so and 80
years of age; a native of Ireland, having
| been a resident of Raleigh about sixty
years; had many friends, leaves a wife
and two children; the Oldest, about I, Is
at Belmont College with the Sisters Of
Charity, the youngest, 3 years OF age, j.
with her mother; was a member OF the
Sacred Heart church and also a member
OF St. Patrick's Benevolent Society OF this
city.
Funeral today Sunday at 8 o'clock
from the Church of the Sacred Heart.