The Trial and Execution of Patrick O’Conner at the Dubuque Mines in the Summer of 1834

Eliphalet Price, an eyewitness of the hanging, wrote the following account in the early fifties. In October, 1865, this account was published by the State Historical Society of Iowa in the Annals of Iowa, from which it is here reprinted. Price’s spelling of the name O’Connor has been retained in the article.— The Edito