"Mahopac, Thursday--Peter Barr Sweeny, a retired New York lawyer, died at the residence of his nephew, Daniel Bradley, Mahopac, N.Y., on Aug. 30, 1911, in his 86th year. Funeral services will be held at St. John's church, Mahopac on Saturday, Sept. 2, at 11 a.m. Interment at Kensico, at the convenience of the family.
New York, Friday--Peter Barr Sweeney, one of the few men connected with the Tweed administration in this city who were held blameless in the plundering of the municipal treasury, died in his summer home on the shore of Lake Mahopac last Wednesday night from paralysis of the stomach, due to an injury. Though recently he had been in excellent health and apparently unweighted by his eighty-six years of life, Mr. Sweeny long ago was a sufferer from acute indigestion, that ailment caused him to retire from the office of District Attorney in 1857 and pass nearly a year abroad in taking the waters at Baden-Baden and other resorts, from which he returned in good health.
Through a misstep in the dark while walking on the porch of his Lake Mahopac home last Saturday night, Mr. Sweeny fell down a flight of steps and his body struck a rail at the foot. He received a severe blow on the right side and when physicians were called they discovered that the injury had caused paralysis of the stomach and the patient's case was practically hopeless.
Mr. Sweeny was the first City Chamberlain to renounce as one of the emoluments of that office the interest paid by banks upon deposits of city funds. From that source more than a million and a quarter dollars was added to the fortune of Mr Sweeny's immediate predecessor in office."
