The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-11-02
CHICAG0'S MAYOR KILLED.
ASSASSINATED AT HIS DOOR BY A
FORMER POLICE OFFICER.
The Murderer Pursued by a
Crowd and Locked Up.

| CHICAGO, Oct. 30.-Carter Henry
Harrison, five times mayor of Chicago,
| ex-Congressman, ex-cOunty commits
sioner, editor, capitalist and author,
was assassinated in his own residence
in this city Saturday evening at s
O'Clock. Three bullets entered his
body and in less than one hour after
the first shot was fired death ensued.
The man who did the shooting was
| arrested and locked up. The man
| gave his name as Eugene Patrick
Prendergrast. He was at one time a
member of the Chicago police force.
The incidents that led up to the kill
ing show that it was premeditated
and deliberately planned. At 7
o'clock man ran up the front steps
of Mr.. Harrison's residence, and rang
the bell
Mary Fansen, the servant, answer
ed the bell and the man outside ask
ed for Mr.. Harrison. She said he
would have to wait moment, as Mr..
Harrison was asleep on the sofa in the
parlor, at the time going back through
! the hall to call him, leaving the door
open.
In moment Mr.. Harrison stepped
from the parlOr into the hall. In an
, instant the man had drawn a revol-
Yer and fired, the shot entering the
abdomen just above the navel. Two
more shots rang out an instant later,
the first of which entered the mayors
body under the left arm, penetrating
the heart.
Mr. Harrison, when the first shot
was fired, had started toward the
door and the second shot struck him
when within few feet of the
assassin.
Mr.. Harrison's cOachmen, who was
in the rear of the house when the first
shot was fired, ran into the hall and
fired three shots at the man as he
started out of the front door. The
murderer stopped for an instant,
turned about and fired parting shot
at the coachman.
LsAMayOr Harrison, after the last shot
was fired, stepped into the parlor and
started towards the dining room. He
had taken but a few steps when he
fell into the buffers pantry, which
lead to the rear of the house. His
sou, Preston, who was upstairs at the
time of the shooting, ran down and
was at his fathers side in an instant.
Mr.. Harrison, said, 81 am shot,
Preston, and cannot live. Where is
Annie?"
MIR. Harrison hastily left his faith
er's side. and rushed out upon the
street in pursuit of the assassin.
The pursuer, who had been rein
forced by an officer and several citi-
zens, gained rapidly on their man, and
in few moments he reached the De
Splaines street police station. He
walked in and approached the SER
geaut at the desk. He was about to
speak whenSthe foremost of his pur-
suers rushed hreathless into the sta
tiOn.
''Lock that man up" said the
coachman; ''he has killed Mayor Har-
rison."
Without waiting to register the
prisoner he was quickly taken back
and placed behind the bars. The sta
tiOn was then cleared Of the excited
people and the sergeant went for a
talk with the prisoner.
MY name is Eugene Patrick Prem
dergast," he said in response to the
first inquiry.
DO you know that You have killed
Mayor HARRISON" asked the sergeant.
Eyes and | am glad of it," was the
answer. ''He promised to give me
the corporation counselship and he
has not kept his word"
Where do you .lve?"
AL oO9 Jane SGFccU Win my noun
err" said the man.
Prendergast repeated at the central
Office the statement made previously,
that he killed Mayor Harrison be-
cause he did not keep his promise to
make him corporation counsel.
Miss Annie Howard, the fiancee of
Mr.. Harrison, was in the house at the
time the fatal shot was fired. In ac-
cordance with the wounded mans re-
quest, she was at once summoned to
his side, and was present when the