The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-30

+. / Inns, machinery manufacturer; w. j.
Chalmers, president of the Fraser &
Chalmers Co. S. A. Scribner, wealthy
commission merchant; Uric King, COM
mission merchant, and p. r. O'Brien, a
tobacco merchant. In point of brains no
better jury was ever convened in Cook
county.
Other witnesses examined were of
ticers at the Des PLANES Street station.
f. A. Mcdonnell, patrol sergeant, identi-
fed the revolver he had taken from
Prendergast.
o. Z. Barber, desk sergeant at the Des
PLANES station, saw Prendergast surren-
der to Mcdonald and heard him say he
had shot Carter II. Harrison, because the
mayor, he said, had broken faith with
him in failing to appoint him corpora
tlon counsel. Prendergast had told him
he lived at 600 Perry street.
FIVE BULLET WOUNDS.
According to the post mortem examina-
tion, the results of which are submitted
to the jury, five bullet wounds made by
four bullets We're found in the mayors
body. Three balls remained in the body.
One lodged in the muscles of the back.
Another passed through the liver and was
found in the stomach. The third struck
near the shoulder and ranging downward
lodged under the skin. A detailed report
of the examination made by DR.. l.. j.
Mitchell and Concurred in by r. Ludwig
Hektoen, was read as follows;
I have made post mortem examination
of the bOdy of Carter II Harrison The todv
was that of a man five feet nine inches high
and weighing about 225 pounds. found five
round openings on the body, such as are usu-
ally made by bullets,
No. passed through the left hand, break
ing the bone of the little finger and came out
in the palm, forming wound No. ,.
Wound No 3 was in the middle line, about
i1s u ia nov al gp3
| the bowels and lodged in the muscles of the
| back. Here a leaden bullet was found.
NO. wound was inches below and to the
right OF the nipple, aSSed through the right
tenth rib a nd liver and a leaden bullet was
| found in the bowels.
No. wound was just below the frcnt of the
right shoulder, and passed down under the
skin about inches. He.e e third leaden bull
let W a found.
There was a consi ierable quantity of
blood in the right hest and abdomen 1 con
clude that Ctrter ii. Harrison came to his
death from shock and hemOrrhage following
the bullet wounds.
[. J. MITCHELL NJ D.
Ludwig Hektoen, M. D., Concurring.
VERDICT OF THE JURY.
The jury returned this verdict:
An Inquest Taken for the People of the
State OF Illinois at 23l Ashland ave
nue., in the City of Chicago, Oct. 20,
A. D. lS93-Before me, James McHale, coro-
ner in and for the said county, upon view
there lying dead, upon the oath Of six good
and lawful men of the said county, who. being
duly sworn to inquire on the part of the peo-
pie Of the state OF Illinois into all the circum-
stances in th3 death of the said Carter H.
Harrison, and by whom the same was pro
duced, and in what manner, and when and
where the said Carter H. Harrison came
to his death, do say upon their oaths as afore-
said, that the said Carter II. Harrison, now
lying dead at 231 Ashland avenue, in the city
of Chicago, county of Cook. state of Illinois,
came to his death Oct. 2S 1893, from shock
and hemorrhage caused from bullets fired
from a revolver in the hands of Patrick Eu-
gene Prendergast, at 23l Ashland avenue, Oct.
| %, 1893; and from the evidence presented we,
| the jury, recommend that the said Patrick
! Eugene Prendergast he held to the grand
| jury until discharged by due course Of law.
G. C.kOHLSAAT, Foreman.
ULRIC KING.
3. A. SCRIBNER.
W. j. CHALMERS.
=. R o 'BRIEE.
CHARLES +. Films.
JAMES MCHALE, Coroner.
During the inquest Deputy Coroner
Kelly asked Prendergast if he had a
statement to make, but the prisoner re-
fused to speak.