POLITICAL NOTES: Chicago Hero

As it must to all men, Death came last week to Patrick J. ("Paddy") Carr, 46.

Two weeks before the hour of his death, "Paddy" Car smiled the smile of a big and happy Irishman, as he listened to the returns that elected him Sheriff of Cook County (Chicago) by a plurality of 125,000, the largest given to any Democrat on the ticket. And then suddenly his smile twisted into agony—sharp, devastating pain arose within him. The doctors said: "Ulcers of the stomach." In the Mercy Hospital "Paddy" Carr suffered, writhed...

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