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KILLED IN HIS HOUSE.
Assassination OF Mayor Harrison of
Chicago,

Assassination OF Mayor Harrison of
Chicago,
CHICAGO, ILL, Oct. 2S.-Mayor Car
ter HARRISON, of Chicago, was shot a;
$40 tonight by man who gave his
name as Eugene Patrick Prendergast'
Mayor Harrison died seventeen min
utes later.
The Mayor was at the dinner table
at his house, at the corner of Ashland
and Jackson boulevards. His unmar-
ried daughter, Sophia, and several ser.
wants were the only other persons IN
the house. Some one rang the door
bell. A servant went to the door. She
found a slender, poorly dressed young
man standing on the door step. he
said:
"I want to see Mayor HARRISON.
have business with him."
Many people called at the Mayors
house. The mayor has always been
very democratic and did not even de-
maud of callers their names. The SER
wants always had orders to show in
promptly whoever called for him. So
this man was shown into the hall and
asked to take seat, the servant say
ing that the Mayor would be out in a
moment.
The man did not sit down but stood
tn the hall while the servant went
into the dinlng-room to tell the Mayor
that be was wanted. Mr.. Harrison,
when the servant notified him that
some one wished to see him, went al
once towards the hall. AS he passed
through the doorway from the dining
room, which opens into the hall, the
man stepped forward quickly to meet
bim. The stranger said:
"Nfr. Harrison, have come to see
you. You have made promises to me
and you have not kept them. have
come to get satisfaction. / worked
hard for you in your campaign. You
promised me an Office and you did not
give it to me-"
The Mayor looked surprised. It is
not known whether be recognized the
man but it is believed he did. He
had wonderful memory and knew
everybody in Chicago who had any
connection with politics. He replied
"My man, I have not broken any
promise to you. There is nothing fol-
which I owe you satisfaction"
The stranger Immediately thrust bis
hand into his coat pocket and pulled q
thirty-eight calibre seven-shot Smith
& Wesson revolver. At the distance
of only few PAGES he leveiied it at
the Mayor and fired three shots. One
entered the Mayors breast, another
his stomach and the third went
through his hand.
The Mayor fell in the doorway, but
retained consciousness. The butler,
who was in the dining-room, ran for
ward at the report of the pistol shots.
The man turned his pistol upon the
butler and fired one shot at him, but
missed. Then he thrust the pistol
back in his pocket, rushed down the
hall, out of the door, down the front
steps, and disappeared in the dark
ness.
The servants and the Mayors daugh-
ter lifted Mr.. Harrison up and carried
him into his room and placed him
upon his bed. He was bleeding con-
siderably and was extremely weak, but
was still conscious. But be recognized
the deadly nature of his wounds. He
said to those bending over him:
II have received my death wound.
You cannot do anything for me-"
ASKED FOR HIS FIANCEG.
w. 7. Chalmers, of No. 234 Ashland
Ro@!evard, just across the street, heard
the shots aud saw the man running
down the street. Mr.. Chalmers rushed
across to Mr.. Harrison's house, and,
as he reached the mayors side, in
quired what had happened. Said the
mayor:
Il am shot and am going to die; I
can't live. Where is Annie?" (his
tiancee.)
Mr.. Chalmers replied: "No, you are
not going to die"
To which the mayor feebly re-
sponded:
II am shot through the heart and
will die; I am failing now"
In ten minutes half dozen of the
best doctors III Chicago were in the
house, but the mayors words were
prophetic. They could do nothing for
him. He spoke two or three times, but
exactly seventeen minutes after be was
shot he died.
PRENDERGRAST SURRENDERS.
A minute or two after the mayor was
shot the policeman on the beat gave
the alarm. About $50 o'clock man.
appal emily about twentyfour years
/,I2 ,,-oily nG inf fhn n1.,>I.;Dn ,,tr
police station. Sergt. Frank Mcdonald
was at the desk. Another police officer
and the police telegraph operator were
in the room.
The man walked deliberately up to
the desk and said ungrammatically but
simply to Sergt. McDonald:
Il am the man. done it. I done
the shooting."
Then he pulled from his pocket the
pistol with which he had shot Mayor
Harrison and placed it upon the desk.
Then he said again:
~ done it. killed him. That is the
pistol done it with"
There was intense excitement
throughout the city when the assassi.
nation became known and thousands
Of men tried to find Prendersra.t tc
lynch him.
Prendergrast is a newspaper CORE
| spondent and is crank on siugle tax
THE ASSASSIN INDICTED.
CHICAGO, October 30.-The granC
jury has found an indictment for muir
der against Prendergrast, who sho
Mayor Harrison.