Life
O'Connor was born in County Limerick, Ireland around 1880 and immigrated to the United States as a boy. He first came to prominence when he was arrested after a shootout in which Chicago Police Detective Patrick J O'Neil was gunned down March 13, 1921. This came as a result of investigators coming to arrest him as a prime suspect in a previous case. O'Connor fled and was later arrested in St. Paul, Minnesota. They sent him back to Cook County, Illinois. Charged with Paddy's murder, O'Connor was convicted at trial and sentenced to hang. Four days before the scheduled execution, he and four other prisoners overpowered the guard, took his rifle, and escaped from the courthouse. All but two of the men were last seen dodging through traffic and made their escape. It is unknown how O'Connor died, though there is a tombstone at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Worth, Illinois. His year of death is listed as 1951.
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