Son of Michael R. Driscoll & Margaret Jeanette Kenneally
Death Notice-Chicago Examiner, Aug. 18, 1910, front page
"5 Year Old Boy Drowns"
-Clasps Hands in Glee at Waves and Falls from Abandoned Pier-
As he clapped his hands in glee at the big waves that rolled towards shore and lashed the abandoned pier on which he was standing, John Driscoll, five years old, fell into Lake Michigan at the foot of Forty-sixth street last evening and was drowned. The boy's father, Michael R. Driscoll, 4525 Woodlawn avenue, chief of the Fourteenth Fire Battalion, was searching for his son at the time and arrived on the scene a few minutes after Policeman Stephen Mullen of the Hyde Park Police had recovered the body. The boy an hour before went to the lake with his brother Leo, seven years old, to watch the waves.
An inquest was held the following morning and was determined Accidental Drowning.
Death Notice-Chicago Examiner, Aug. 18, 1910, front page
"5 Year Old Boy Drowns"
-Clasps Hands in Glee at Waves and Falls from Abandoned Pier-
As he clapped his hands in glee at the big waves that rolled towards shore and lashed the abandoned pier on which he was standing, John Driscoll, five years old, fell into Lake Michigan at the foot of Forty-sixth street last evening and was drowned. The boy's father, Michael R. Driscoll, 4525 Woodlawn avenue, chief of the Fourteenth Fire Battalion, was searching for his son at the time and arrived on the scene a few minutes after Policeman Stephen Mullen of the Hyde Park Police had recovered the body. The boy an hour before went to the lake with his brother Leo, seven years old, to watch the waves.
An inquest was held the following morning and was determined Accidental Drowning.
Son of Michael R. Driscoll & Margaret Jeanette Kenneally
Death Notice-Chicago Examiner, Aug. 18, 1910, front page
"5 Year Old Boy Drowns"
-Clasps Hands in Glee at Waves and Falls from Abandoned Pier-
As he clapped his hands in glee at the big waves that rolled towards shore and lashed the abandoned pier on which he was standing, John Driscoll, five years old, fell into Lake Michigan at the foot of Forty-sixth street last evening and was drowned. The boy's father, Michael R. Driscoll, 4525 Woodlawn avenue, chief of the Fourteenth Fire Battalion, was searching for his son at the time and arrived on the scene a few minutes after Policeman Stephen Mullen of the Hyde Park Police had recovered the body. The boy an hour before went to the lake with his brother Leo, seven years old, to watch the waves.
An inquest was held the following morning and was determined Accidental Drowning.
Death Notice-Chicago Examiner, Aug. 18, 1910, front page
"5 Year Old Boy Drowns"
-Clasps Hands in Glee at Waves and Falls from Abandoned Pier-
As he clapped his hands in glee at the big waves that rolled towards shore and lashed the abandoned pier on which he was standing, John Driscoll, five years old, fell into Lake Michigan at the foot of Forty-sixth street last evening and was drowned. The boy's father, Michael R. Driscoll, 4525 Woodlawn avenue, chief of the Fourteenth Fire Battalion, was searching for his son at the time and arrived on the scene a few minutes after Policeman Stephen Mullen of the Hyde Park Police had recovered the body. The boy an hour before went to the lake with his brother Leo, seven years old, to watch the waves.
An inquest was held the following morning and was determined Accidental Drowning.
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