Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-11-01
Detail. of the A..a..ln.,ion of Carter

Details of the Assassination Of Carter
 Harrison.
 X Chicago telegram gives the following account of the assassina- ton of Mayor Harrison:
 "Mr. Harrison had returned from the fair, where he participated in the celebration of American Cities day but short time before, and was taking nap when awakened by the servant, who announced a gentleman at the door who wished to speak so him, but who refused to come in.
 "Harrison arose at once and went toward the main entrance of the house, but had proceeded but few feet down the main hall, when the man without q word of warning, raised his revolver and fired three shots in rapid succession. every one of which took effect. The victim fell with a groan, while the assassin took to his heels, pursued by the butler and the coaehman, who had been attracted by the reports of the revolver.
 Mir. Harrison meantime arose and passed into another room, where he again sank to the floor aud died. In the room above were Harrison's only daughter and Miss Annie Howard, whom Harrison was to wed next week. At the sound of the shots they rushed to the ground floor to learn the cause of the dis. turbance, and were appalled, by their discovery. Miss Howard be- came frenzied with grief, and the physicians, who came too late to close the eyes of the murdered Mayor, found necessity for the operation of their skill to save the young lady's life. After nearly an hours hard work she was brought under the influence of anaesthetics, aud is now m a stupor. Her life, however is in danger.
 'The assassin, after committing the deed, ran directly to the Des- plaines street station and said to the desk sergeant: I've just shot Mayor Harrison and want to give myself up." The officers were in- clined to look upon the man as an cratic crank, and were joking with him when his startling statement was confirmed by the general police alarm. Prendegrast was immedi- ately taken into custody, and, a few minutes later, was transferred to the central station, as it was feared the infuriated citizens, when the town became aroused, would storm the sub-station and wreak vengeance upon the slayer of the popular mayor.
 It was we'll he change was m lde, as the excitemont that succee led the issue ot extra papers annolne- ing the tragedy has never been edualed. even in this excitable town, and only the thick walls of the City Hall and the arms of cohorts of police saved the assassin's neck.
 When asked why he committed the crime, the man said that liar rison had betrayed him. He had worked hard for Harrison at the last election, and got no reward. The police say there is no doubt that Prendegrast Is insane, and had no other motive than that in. dicated in his rambling talk about Harrison's ingratitude to his politi- cal friends. When the report of the assassination first got abroad it was the general belief that the Mayor had fallen a victim of the anarchists, and that the Senatorial fight in which Harrison and Gov. Altgeld lead opp osing factions, might furnish a motive for the com. mission of the crime. Happily these theories were soon dispeiled by the surrender of the sslf-con- fessed murderer in the person of the crank paper-carrier.
 The sorrow in this city is pro- found and universal, the political friends and foes of the dead man are wing with each other in paying tributes of praise to the deceased"