Connecticut western news., 1893-11-02

upper rooms to view the face or rneir friend and leader. The room in which the inquest was in progress opened of 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 centered 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 contia- ued, there was ring at the doorbell. I went to the door and found 8 man I did not know there. That was about ' O clock. I asked the man what he wanted, and he said he wanted to see Mayor Harrison. told him MT. Harrison was eating supper and asked him to call again. About a quarter of he called again, and I went to the door and let him in. MT. Harrison was sitting In the room. told him there was a man in the hall who wanted to see him. I left the men in the hall and went to the kitchen. Just as I got in the kitchen heard several shots fired, and then I ran out from the kitchen to where had left Mir. Harrison and the man. I saw the un- known man running out the door. Mr. Harrison staggered into the room and out of door to @ hall, where he fell"
 The Murderer Present
 'Did you see the man who caliedt" asked Deputy Kelly.
 The witness hesitated, and the coroner was more specific.
 ''Is that the mani" he asked, pointing to Prendergast.
 Still the witness was not sure, but Pren- 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 I left standing with MT. 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. MT. Harrison died about 20 minutes after the shooting. When saw him, he was bleeding.
 P. Ellison RisburR, the mayors coach man, was the first to start in pursuit of the assassin.
 "When heard several shots fired, said he, II ran out and saw a man standing with a revolver in his hand" "Do you sec him nowf" he was asked.
 "That Is the man," he answered, point ing at Prendergast. He was pointing his revolver at seme object in the second room of the house, and as opened the deor to go in be pointed it at me and fired, but shut the door before he could take aim at me and ran back to the barn after my re- volver, so that could catch the man.
 II ran around to the front of the house to see If l could find him, but could not see him. I saw one man, but he was not the one I saw in the house. When went back to the house, saw MT. Harrison lying on the heor with some doctors. He died about 20 minutes afterward- I was eating sup per in the back of the house when the shooting began"
 According to the post mortem examina- tion, 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 in the muscles of the back. An other passed through the liver and was found in the bowels The third struck near the shoulder aud ranging downward lodged under the skin.
 Prendsrgnst Refuses to Speak.
 The jury returned verdict to the effect that Carter H. Harrison came to his death from shock and hemorrhaQe, caused by bullets fired from 8 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 Prendergast if he had statement to make, but the prisoner refused to speak.
 Mrs. w. J. Chalmers took charge of af- fairs in the house and received many of the callers in the name of the family. A num- first to arrive.