The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-30
SORROW AT CHICAGO
Universal Regret for the Work of
Assassin Prendergast.
Many Expressions of Heartfelt SYM
pathy Received by Members of the
Murdered Mayors Family.
THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
Mr.. HarrisOn's Slayer UndOubt-
edly an irresponsible Crank.
He Imagined Himself Reformer and
BroOded Over His Repulses Till
His Mind Gave Way.
CHARGED WITH NJ { RIDER
Prendergast Held by the Coroner
After the Inquest Sunday.
| Locked i'm Historic Cell in the County
| Jail After Being Secreted in VAR
| iOus Parts of the City.
THE FUNERAL PREPARATIONS
Obsequies of the Dead MyaOr to
Be Held on Wednesday.
Gossip About the SuccessiOn-Expres-
siOns Of Well-KnOwn Men and Com
ment of the Newspapers.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CHICAGO, Oct. 29-Patrick Eugene Prem
dergast, the crank who, last night, assas-
sihated Mayor Carter H. Harrison, was
in secret custody all day, the place
being known only to the police. There is
no longer any fear of lynching, but the high
officials of the police department thought it
best to be on the safe side, and at z o. clock
quietly from the Central station, where he
was first confined, to one of the outlying
police stations. This evening he was locked
in Jail.
Up to the time of his removal Prender-
geat maintained the sulen, defiant and in
different attitude that he had shown ever
stree he gave himself up to Desk Sergeant
Barger at the Desplaines-street station last
right Despite the assertion of DR.. Laid
law. the Prendergast family physician, that
the prisoner had never shown any indica-
ton of mental alteration, thereis no doubt
in the minds of those who have seen and
conversed with him that he is insane His
actions for several weeks past confirm this
suppostion. He has been writing threaten
ing postal cards to various city officials; he
has threatened the life of the Mayor in the
hearing of Mr.. Graham, the Mayors sec
retary; he has demanded that Corporation
Counsel Kraus should resign in his favor,
and his whole conduct has been that of a
man mentally unbalanced, whose mania.
taking a homicidal turn, settled upon Mayor
Harrison as the imaginary author of his
wrongs
In Chicago to-day there is a univesal
feeling of sorrow and horror, but public in
dignation no longer threatens to vent itself
in an attempt at lynching. 1t is realized
that the parallel which was at first drawn
between the assassination of President Gar
field by Guiteau and the present murder is
not a true one. Guiteau was a disap-
pointed office-seeker who had some uuaIi-
was monomanlac, it is true, but he was
undoubtedly responsible for his actions
Prendergast, however, is beyond doubt a
lunatic pure and simple; he had studied
and read cranky economic theories until
his mind gave way. He imagined that he
was reformer; he had schemes for the
Decially interested in the welfare of Chi
cago and imagined that he alone could
reform the abuses from which the city is
suffering. He especially bitter in his
denunciation of the railroad grade cross
ings which responsible for many deaths
every year. and the idea became fixed in
his mind that If he were made corporation
counsel he could solve the problem of ele-
waiting all the railroad tracks within the
city limits Long brooding over the subject
bred the delusion that the Mayor had prom
ised him the office. He insisted upon the
fulfllment Of the imaginary promise. He
haunted the municipal building and an
noyed the city officials with his crazy de-
ma1ds. Finally. he determined that the
Mayor was acting in bad faith with him.
This idea grew upon him. He thought of
it day and night. His diseased brain Mas
incapable of entertaining any other idea.
At last he determined to demand from the
Mayor himself satisfaction for his imagin-
airy wrongs. He had now reached the hon.
icidal stage. He bought a cheap second
hand revolver. put it in his pocket and
called at the Mayors residence. Mr.. Har-
rson. accustomed to the vagaries of all
sorts of cranks, treated his demand lightly.
Prendergast killed him. That is the story.
IN THE DEATH CHAMBER.
All that is mortal of Carter H. Harrison
rested tonight on a cooling board In the
front bedroom of the Ashland-avenue house.
When your correspondent was admitted TO
the apartment tonight. Conrad Fuchs a
sculptor of local repute, had just COM
pleted the task of taking a cast of the
features of the late executive. and which he
pronounced successful In every particular.
There was nothing in the features of the
dead man to indicate that his end had come