Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-11-04
The Mayor of Chicago Brutality Muir.
dered.

Carter Henry Harrison, five times
Mayor of Chicago, ex-Congressman,
ex-County Commissioner, editor, cap
italist and author, was assassinated
in his own residence OF Chicago last
Saturday evening at s o'clock.
Three bullets entered his body ana
in less than one hour after the 1lrst
shot was fired death ensued. Inc
man who did the shooting was ar
rested and locked up at the 'Des-
PLANES street station. The man
gave his name as Eugene Patrick
Prendergast. He was at one time q
member of the Chicago police force.
The incidents that led up to the
killing show that it was premeditated
and deliberately planned. AT 7.0U
o'clock Saturday evening man ran
up the front steps of Mr.. Harrison's
residence and rang the bell. Mary
Fansen, the servant, answered the
bell and the man outside asked for
Mr.. Harrison. She said he would
have to wait moment, as MI. Har-
rison was asleep on the sofa IN the
parlor, at the same time going back
through the hall to call him, leaving
the door open. In q moment MI.
Harrison stepped from the parlor into
the hall. In an instant the man had
drawn a revolver and fired, the shot
entering the abdomen just above the
navel. Two more shots rang out an
instant later, the first of which en-
tered the Mvyor's 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 a few feet of the assassin.
Mr.. Harrison was so close to the muz-
zle of the revolver when the third
shot was fired that the bullet shat
tered one of the knuckles of bis lett
hand and the powder burned the
flesh.
Mr.. Harrison's coachman, 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 for the front door.
The murderer stopped for an instant,
turned about and fired q parting
shot at the coachman. He then
ran down the front steps and passed
rapidly north on Ashland avenue:
Mayor Harrison, after the last shot
was fired, stepped into the parlor
and started toward the dining room.
He had taken but q few steps when
he fell into the buffers pantry,
which led to the rear of the house.
His son, Preston, who was upstairs
at the time of the shooting, ran
down and was at his fathers side IN
an instant.
Preston, and cannot live. Where
is Annie?"
Mr.. Harrison hastily left his ia
ther side and rushed out upon the
street in pursuit of the assassin. In
the meantime Mr.. and Mrs. Chal-
mers, who live across the street, had
started for the Harrison residence,
as they had heard the shooting:
They saw man running up Ashland
avenue and met the son, Preston, IN
pursuit.
Young Harrison stopped long
enough to inform his neighbors OF
the terrible affair and then started
on in pursuit of the murderer.
81 have been shot and cannot
live" said the Mayor, as he gasped
for breath.
'You won't de- said Mr.. Chal-
mers, "You have only been shot in
the abdomen"
mo, / have been shot in the heart,
and l know I cannot live" was the
reply. ~,
These were the last words OF the
Mayor. He Immediately became un-
conscious and died at S.25 The muir
derer, pursued by the coachman, ran
along Ashland avenue toward Mon
roe street at q breakneck pace. Com
| ing to Monroe street he turned to
the east and started for the city.
The pursuers, who had been rein
forced by an officer and several citi-
zens, gained rapidly on their man.
On they sped until Desplaines street
was reached, when the hunted man
again turned to the north and IN a
| few moments had reached the Des-
PLANES street police station. He
walked in and approached the SER
geant at the desk. He was about to
speak when the foremost OF his pur-
suers rushed breathless into the sta
ton. ssLock that man up" said the
coachman, HE has killed Mayor
Harrison
In an instant the sergeant was out
from behind his desk, and, catching
hold of the mans arm, pulled him
within the wire enclosure as though
to preserve his life from the
crowd which was gathering with as
tonishing rapidity. Without wait
| ing to register the prisoner he was
Quickly taken back and placed be-
hind the bars. The station was then
cleared of the excited people and the
sergeant went for a talk with the
prisoner.
INV name is Eugene Patrick
Prendergast,n he said, in reply to the
first inquiry.
"Do you know that you have kill,
ed Mayor Harrison?" asked the SER
geant.
"Yes I am glad of it," was the an
swer. "He promised to give me the
corporation counselship and he has
not kept his word"
"Where do you liver
cat 600 Jane street, with my
MOTHER said the prisoner.
This ended the enterview. The
sergeant at once telephoned the Cen
trail station and in q few moments
several officers from that district
were at the station. A patrol was
called after 81 few minutes and the
prisoner was brought to the Central
station down town. Here another
examination was had and the revol-
yer which had been taken from the