The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-11-02


other in the abdomen.
sit is through my heart" said the
mayor again, in o voice now scarcely
above O whisper. A mOmenG later he
sank into unconsci0usness and in 20
minutes otter receiving the wounds he
was dead.
When young Harrison came run.
ming down the stairs TO learn the
cause OF the shooting he passed the
burglar alarm. He reached out and
turned in an alarm aud, even before
he reached his fathers side the patrol
wagon filled with officers from the
Lake street station, about third of q
mile distance, was dashing towards
the mayors home. By the time the
officers arrived all trace of the muir
derer had been lost, and even before
the mayor breathed his last, officers
from every station in the city were on
the outlook for q small smooth shaven
man 25 years of age.
Every possible effort was made to
secure medicel attendance for Mr..
Harrison, but when DIR. Lyman, the
first to arrive at the house, reached the
mayors side he was q dead man.
Doctors Thomas, Foster and WASH
burn followed in quick succession, but
they were unable to do anything and
soon left the house.
About 25 minutes after the shooting
Sergeant Frank Mcdonald was stand
ing in the office of the Desplains
street station. Every available Of
ficer had already been hu, ried out to
work on the case and Mcdonald, who
had lust come in from other work,
was preparing to follow. The door
was pushed gently open and in
walked small smooth shaved man
poorly dressed and carrying a revol-
yer in his hand. He shook like man
with palsy, his face was white and
drawn; great drops of perspiration
chased each other down his face and
his tottering limbs seemed scarcely
able 10 hold him upright. He walked
up to Mcdonald, who is a powerful
fellow, six feet tall, and looking him
straight in the eyes said:
~ did it,"
"You did it?n asked Mcdonald.
"Yes, I did it,"
"Did what?" said the officer.
"Shot Harrison, and that's what L
shot him with" was the reply as
Prendergast made motion with his
hand toward the revolver, which the
officer had taken.
"What made you do it?" asked Nc
Donald.
"He said he would make me corpora
tion counsel and didn't do it; that's
what L shot him for"
Ill N
Nothing dramatic; no bravado. He
spoke of the crime as though 1t was
nothing out of the ordinary and a
matter entirely to be expected. He
was trembling so he could scarcely
stand and the officer led him to a
chair and asked few more questions
to which Prendergast made but one
reply
"He said he would make me corpor-
alton counsel. He did not and L shot
him. meant to shoot him and went
there to do it,"
He said after leaving Harrison's
house he had taken street car and
started toward the Desplaines street
station with the object of giving him
self up.
"The car didn't go very fast" he
said, COR 1 would have been here
sooner"
SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
Carter H. Harrison was born in
Lexington, KY, Feb. Is, 1926. His
great grandfather was the father OF
Benjamin., who was the father of
President William Henry Harrison.
His grandfather was first cousin of
Thomas Jefferson, and he himself was
q cousin of John G. Breckenridge and
BENJAMIN Harrison. By the death of
his father he was left at years old to
the care of his mother, who was a
daughter OF Col. William Russell of
the United States army and north
western pioneer. DR.. Louis Marshall Z,
brother of the chief justice and father
of Tom Marshall, prepared him
for Yale where he gradual
ed in 1910. After graduating
and travelling abroad he came to
Chicago in 1855, invested in real
estate and became wealthy. He was
a commissioner of Cook county from
1871 to 1874, when he went to congress,
serving two terms.
He attracted attention during the
Hayes-Tilden contest by introducing
s resolution for 6-year presidential
terms and making ex-presidents
eligible for one term only, but senator's
for life. He was elected mayor of
Chicago in 1879, 1881, 1888. 1885 and
1893. In 1884 he was the Democratic
candidate against Oglesby for gov
ernor of Illinois and the same year
was delegate at the national con-
vention that nominated Cleveland.
After completing his fourth term
as mayor he made trip around the
world and wrote A Race With the
Sun. In 1890 he visited Alaska and
the national parks, and his book on a
Summer Outing also added to his lit
erary fame.
In 1891 he purchased the Chicago
Times, which he edited till elected
mayor last April, and which his sons,
William Preston Harrison and Carter
II. Harrison, Jr., now own.
He was married in 1866 to Sophia
Preston. She died in Europe in 1876.
In 1882 he married Margurite e.
Stearns, who died in 1887, and
he was 10 have been marri sd
in few days hence to Miss