sentences:  He was involved in a number of public incidents both at home and in Washington, including interrupting a performance by violinist Ole Bull and having to have several policemen remove him from the concert hall.On September 10, 1846, in Washington, D.C., McConnell took his own life, stabbing himself in the throat and on his body, believed to have been committed in a state of mental hallucination due to delirium tremens.He was interred in the Congressional Cemetery.