The morning call., 1893-10-29
COLD IN DEATH
Garter Harrison Shot
..= by a LunatiC
jim HIS OWN HOUSE.
The: Murder Was Most
Deliberate.
THREE SHOTS WERE FIRED.
And Each One Struck the Vic
TINS Body.
VERY COOL AFTER THE DEED.
jumping on a Car, the Murderer
Fl Rode TO the Police Station
and Surrendered.
THREE SHOTS WERE FIRED.
And Each One Struck the Vic
:: TINS Body.
.ERY COOL AFTER THE DEED.

:'*=s CHICAGO, Oct. 2S-Another crank has
J: followed the bent of his mania, and Car
!. fer; 81. Harrison, FIVE times Mayor of Chi
:cREo, and one Of the best known men in
*fhe; West lies dead al his home, 23l South
:$Ashisnd boulevard. Three bullets entered
:; Al body. two making wounds sufficient to
cause death. The murder was committed
sbYs Eugene Patrick Prendergast. paper
: rarTieT, who had declared that Mayor
Hafrisbn had promised TO make him cor
=porstiOn counsel and had not kept his
word. This. be said. was his sole reason
.fet. Committing the crime.
r.. : =. The emily person in the house at the time
:<oftbe shooting. besides Mr. Harrison, was
his8on, William Preston Harrison. aged
% Years, and the servants. Shortly before
g. O'Clock the door bell rang. and when
Mary Hanson, a domestic. opened the door
Is he >w&S confronted by mau about feet
.;;.55 in ches high, smooth shaven, with clean
%.cut features lit up by pair of dark eyes.
- :''Is Mr. Harrison in?" asked the man,
...:in=a qaiet, pleasant voice.
H.: r.. es. sir, replied the girl, as she threw
:=open the door to admit his entrance.
..- ~ would like to see him, please" said
lila; man, as lie walked toward the back
END Of the hall.
= Mayor Harrison was in the dining-room.
WhFeh. opened into the rear of the hall,
ard hearing the man ask for him be
stepped into the ball and walked toward
PTendeTgast. Without saying a word
:: the. murderer drew a revolver and COM
" mezfced to fire. He pulled the trigger but
1BTee times, and every bullet hit its
mark. One bullet shattered Harrison's
Iefx hand, another passed into the lower
Fight sfce of the abdomen, making a
:4iyolind- that would have been mortal
within a few days. The third bullet
entered his chest slightly above The heart.
:an9:this wound Wass the Immediate cause
of death.
=. AS soon as Prendergast began to fire
: Harrison turned and walked rapidly to-
.Watd.tre dining-room. He passed through
z. the. room and into the buffers pantry,
where, weakened by loss of blood, he fell
sto:the floor. Prendergast did not follow
his victim, but placed the revolver in his
pdcket. with the same deliberation that
had marked all OF his actions and started
toward the door. Just as he was passing
@0ut William Preston Harrison came tear
Ing down the stairs and the family coach
:: mar. ran into the rear end of the hall. The
=cTies Of Mary Hansen directed the son to
where bis father lay. but the coachman
!: WAS after other game. He had revolver
: of bis own and as quick as he realized
what had occurred he sent bullet after
:: the disappearing form of the murderer.
81. a second time he fired. but both bullets
went wild. Running to the door the coach
!. .Ipan prepared to continue hostiities, but
:: several people were Just then entering to
.%leaTnthe cause Of the shooting. and by the
.;:tif1le the cOachman reached the sidewalk
J the murderer had disappeared.
: Across Ashland boulevard, directly op-
=posite the Harrison residence, is the home
:.of~:W. j. Chalmers, a wealthy maker of
!, mining machinery. Chalmers was stand
:ing:upOn the front steps of his residence
Nv hen the shots were fired and be dashed
:RcFoss the street and met Prendergast at
: the gate. -'What is ?" said Chalmers.
: *<.Ehe man walked rapidly away without
-.Teplying and Chalmers hastened into the
house and reached Harrison almost at the
-sffEle moment that William Preston Har-
:TisQn found where his father lay.
: ::''Are you hurt?" asked Chalmers, as he
and the son of the dying man strove to
raise him.
81 have got my death, Chalmers" re-
sponded the Mayor. 'Pm shot in the
heart, and dead man."
:. a. moment later Harrison said, with a
voice that was rapidly losing strength,
.Sunbutton my vest. There's where the
trou bic is"
= BY this time the stricken man had been
borne to couch in an adjoining room. and
as he, spoke Chalmers gently opened his
iaf ba of uhirt
soaked in blood, which welled rapidly
from the wound.
!.EIt's through the heart" said the Mayor
again. his voice scarcely above whisper.
Amoment later he sank into unconscious
ness, and twenty minutes after receiving
the wound Carter Harrison was dead.
: When young Harrison came downstairs
and learned the cause of the shooting be
turned in the burglar alarm, and even be-
fore be reached his fathers side patrol
wagon filled with officers from the Lake
street station was dashing toward
the Mayors house. By the time the
-ofilcers arrived all trace of the murder had
been lost, and even before the Mayor
breathed his last officers from every sta
: :tion in the city were on the lookout for the
murderer.
=. Every possible effort was made to secure
medical attendance for Mr.. Harrison, but
when Dr. Lyman. the first physician to
arrive, reached the Mayors side he was a
dead man.
:. ABOUT twenty-five minutes after the
shooting Sergeant Frank Mcdonald was
:. standing In the Office OF the Desplaines-
: street Police station. Every available off
:, Ger had already hurried out to work on the
case and Mcdonald was preparing to fol-
!. low. The door was Iushed gently open
and in. walked small, smooth-shayep.
poorly dressed man, carrying revolver In
: his hand. He shook like man with