Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-10-30
the streets near the mayors home were in
Ignorance of the officer,s nlan

boulevard, judge of the probate court;
Charles +. ELVES, machinery mnnufactur-
er, 230 Ashland boulevard: w. j. Chalmers,
2S4 Ashland boulevard, president of Fraser
Chalmers company; 5. a. Scribner, 226
Ashland boulevard of Scribner Creighton
company, commission merchants; Uric
King, pa Ashland boulevard, commission
merchant, and +. r. O'Brien, EOS Park
avenue, tobacco dealer.
/ The jurors met at the house and organ
lied by the selection of Judge Kohlsaat as
foreman.
The Murderer Present.
The body lay in an upper room, and the
jurors moved up stairs to view it before
hearing testimony The session was trans
ferred for further proceedings to the south
back parlor on the main floor. The jurors.
witnesses and few spectators gathered
around a large table in the center. Deputy
Kelly sat at the head, and back of him
stood Coroner McHale, most of the time
silent witness. Judge Kohlsaat sat at the
left of the deputy, and the others Of the
jury grouped themselves informally
around the board. --s---
Prendergast sat or stood in a corner,
with Lieutenant Haas between him aud
the door. In the wide hall leading through
the center of the house from the main door
to the broad staircase at the west end
visitors were thronging and passing to the
upper rooms to view the face Of their
friend and leader. The room in which the
inquest was in progress opened off the hall.
Through its half open doors the group
around the table was visible, but their low
voices failed to attract attention and few
of the visitors noticed the proceedings
William Preston Harrison, son of the
mayor and publisher of The Times de-
scribed briefly his knowledge of the tragic
affair
Interest conferred about the story of Mary
Hanson, the domestic who admitted Prem
dergast. She told of her position in the
household, saying she had been employed
as second girl
Early Saturday evening she contin-
ued, there was a ring at the doorbell. 1
went to the door and found a man l did
not know there That was about O'Clock
l asked the man what he wanted, and he
said he wanted to see Mayor Harrison. l
told him Mr.. Harrison was eating supper
and asked him to call again. About a
quarter of he called again, and went to
the door and let him in. Mr. Harrison was
sitting in the room. l told him there was
a man in the hall who wanted to see him
l left the men in the hall and went to the
kitchen. Just as l got i'll the kitchen l
heard several shots fired, and then l ran
out from the kitchen to where ! had left
Mr.. Harrison and the man. | saw the I'M
known man running out the door Mr..
Harrison staggered into the room and out
of a door TO hall, where he fell
Did you-see the man who called:" asked
Deputy Kelly.
The witness hesitated and the coroner
was more specific
rs that the mani" he asked, pointing to
PrenderSast.
Still the witness was not sure, but Prem
dergast helped her with the exclamation
Yes, saw You last night"
He was told TO put on his hat and face
the witness.
Yes" she answered, that is the man l
left standing with Mr.. Harrison, and that
is the man who did the shooting.
After he ran away" continued the wit
ness, they went for the doctors, who
came right away. Mr.. Harrison died about
20 minutes after the shooting. When | saw
him, he was bleeding.
P. Ellison Risburg, the mayors coach
man, was the first TO start in pursuit of the
assassin.
when l heard several shots fired" said
he, Il ran out and saw a man standing
with a revolver in his hand" DO you see
him now" he was asked.
That is the man." he answered, point
ing at Prendergast. He was pointing his
revolver at some object in the second room
of the house, and as l opened the door to
go in he pointed it at me and fired, but l
shut the door before he could take aim at
me and ran back to the barn after my re
volver, so that l could catch the man.
Il ran around to the front of the house to
see if l could find him, but could not see
him. / saw one man, but he was not the
one l saw in the house. When | went back
to the house, 4 saw Mr.. Harrison living on
the floor with some doctors. He died about
70 minutes afterward. l was eating sup
per in the back of the house when the
shooting began
According to the post mortem cNamina-
ton, the result of which was submitted to
the jury, five bullet wounds made by four
bullets were found in the mayors body.
Three balls remained in the body. One
lodged i'll the muscles of the back An
other passed through the liver and was
found in the bowels The third struck near
the shoulder and ranging downward lodged
under the skin.
Prendergast Refuses to SPEAK.
The jury returned verdict TO the effect
that Carter H. Harrison came to his death
from shock and hemorrhaGe, caused by
bullets fired from Z revolver in the hands
of Patrick Eugene Prendergast, and rec
commended that Prendergast be held to the
grand jury.
During the inquest Deputy Kelly asked
Prcndergast if he had a statement to make,
but the Prisoner refused to speak.
Only once Prendergast showed feeling
over the death of Mayor Harrison. 1t was
while he was at Mr.. Harrison's residence
and waiting outside the room in which
the corOner's jury was celebrating on its
verdict. He was sitting near Lieutenant
Hsas, and his attention was attracted by
the presence of Mrs. w. J. Chalmers. For
a moment his stolidity was broken, and he
pulled the lieutenant's sleeve. The officer
bent toward his prisoner and heard him
ask, as that Mrs. HARRISON"
NO replied the lieutenant. lit is not.
Why did you ask"
Il wanted to tell her. replied Prender-
CAST, that l was sorry for her trouble"
With that remark he relaIsed into silence
and returned to all other questions VA
cant stare.
Lieutenant Haas drove his prisoner from
East Chicago avenue station to the Harri-
son house without encountering any Incl
dent. Prendergast's departure from the
station and his presence in the house were
not generally known. Although no indi-
cations of violence were manifested during
the day, the police and coroner agreed that
it was best that the location of the prisoner
should be kept as secret as possible.
He refused to answer questions, and sat
with his head resting against the rail and
his eyes fixed above the heads of the visit
ors. When the verdict was announced, he
made no comment and was hurried out
the back door again by Lieutenant Haas.
Not Insane. Says the Doctor.
He has refused to talk all day" said
the lieutenant, except to give utterance to
few sentences in response to a question.
He was asked why he did the shooting and
made the same statement about the
mayors refusal to appoint him corporation
counsel Saturday night he made some
threats about beating out his brains
against the cell doors, but I think he in
tended nothing of the kind. He spent a