The morning news., 1893-10-29
GHGAGO'S MAYOR slain.
Crazy Paper Carrier Shoots
Him In His Home.
KIT BY THREE bullets.
One Enters the Abdomen and
Another the Heart.
A CORPSE IN 70 MINUTES
His Son and a NalghbOr By His
DGathhod.
SURRENDER OF The Slayer,
Walking From the HauSe Under Fire He
Goes To the Police.
HIS EXCUSE A CRAZY ONE.
He Says the Mayor Promised To
Make Him City Attorney.
SURRENDER OF THE Slayer.
Walking From the H9uSe Under Fire He
Goes To the Police.
HIS EXCUSE A CRAZY ONE.
He Says the Mayor Promised To
Make Him City Attorney.

Chicago, Oct. 2s.-Another crazy crank
has done his deadly work, and Carter H.
Harrison, five times mayor of Chicago,
and one of the best known men in the
west, lies dead in his home, 231 South
Ashland boulevard.
Three bullets entered his body, two of
them making wounds sufficient to cause
death.
The murder was committed by Eugene
Patrick Prendergast, a paper carrier, who
declared that Mayor Harrison had prom
ised to make him corporation counsel
and had not kept his word This,
he said, was his only reason for COM
mitting the crime.
The only person in the house at the
time besides Mr. Harrison was his son,
William Preston Harrison, 25 years of
age, and the servants.
ARRIVAL OF THE MURDERER.
Shortly before o'clock tonight the
door bell rang and when Mary Hanson,
the domestic, opened the door, she was
confronted by a man about five feet, five
inches high, smooth-shaven and his
rather clean cut features, lit up by pair
of dark eyes.
us Mr. Harrison in2" asked the man in
quiet, pleasant voice.
''Yes. SIR responded the girl as she
threw the door open wider to permit his
entrance.
II would like to see him, please said,
the man, as nc walked towards the back
end of the hall,
Mr.. Harrison was in the dining-room
which opens into the rear end of the hall
Hearing the man ask for him, he arose,
and stepped into the hall, walking to-
wards Prendergast, who, by the time he
caught sight of Mr.. Harrison, had ad-
vanced about ten feet from the door.
OPENED FIRE WITHOUT WORD.
Without saying a word, Prendergast
drew his revolver and commenced to fire
He pulled the trigger but three times,
and every bullet hit the mark One ball
shattered Mr.. Harrison's left hand,
another passed into the lower right side
Of the abdomen, making wound that
would have been mortal within a few
days, and the third bullet entered the
chest slightly above the heart This bull
let was the immediate cause of death. AS
soon as Prendergast began to fire, Mr.
Harrison turned and walked rapidly
towards the dining room. He walked
through the room, across the dining room
and passed into buffers pantry opening
of the room, where, weakened by loss of
blood, he fell to the floor.
THE MURDERER ESCAPES
Prendergast did not follow pup his
victim or make any attempt to
ascertain how deadly his aim had been.
He replaced his revolver in his pocket
with the same deliberation that had
marked all his actions, and started
towards the door. Just as he was passing
through the doorway William Preston
harrison, the mayors son, came tearing
down the stairs from the upper portion of
Ine house just as MIR Harrisons coach
man ran to the rear end of the hall. The
cries of Mary Hanson directed the son to
"nere his father lay, but the coachman
was after other game.
FIRED ON BY THE CoAcHMAN.
lie had revolver of his own, and as
guckIy as he realized what had occurred
He Ieyeled his weapon and sent bullet
al'er the disappearing form of the mur-
Gerer. A second time his revolver spoke,
ou1 ms bullets went wild Running to
'ne door, the coachman was prepared to
eonliuue hostilities, but several people
were entering to learn the cause of the
sNoo ing and by the time the coachman
I1u reached the sidewalk Prendergasi
A'0 oeen swallowed up in the darkness.
NETGHBoR RUsHEs IN.
Across Ashland boulevard, directly op
IosIte the residence of MIR. Harrison. il
w., nome OF W.J Chalmers, the wealthy
''A,f OF mining machinery. Mr. Chal
was standing upon the front steps
"a residence when the shots wer,
-ol lie bounced down the steps, dash.