Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-02-24
PRENDERGAST TO HANG.
The Cowardly Assassin of the La
mented Carter Harrison Will
Pay the Penalty Of His
Crime

Chicago, Feb. 24.-Judge Brentano to-
day cverrrled the motion for new trial
for Prendergast and sentenced the assas-
sin to be hanged March 23.
Prendergast entered court in charge
of bailiff. He soon grew restless aud
moved about in his chair increasingly.
His face was pale and his eyes rolled
around continuously. AS the court ad-
dressed Prendergast and asked him If he
had anything to say why sentence should
not be passed upon him, Prendergast
arose to his feet nervously and drew a
small sheet Of paper covered with notes
from his vest pocket and addressed the
court as follows:
HE DEFENDS HIMSELF.
II don't suppose, your honor, it will do
me any good to say anything in court
now. have made no preparation to say
anything particular. suppose your
honor is under the impression that you
have done your duty, but this plea of in
sanity has been set up by my attorneys
without my consent. 1t was an infamous,
dirty and disrepetable plea and done
against my objections. Now as for
Juror Murray, it is certainsto my mind
that from the manner in which he an
swered questions, he was anxious to be a
juror in this case. There was something
wrong also. in regard to summoning
venire-men. Juror Larkin came here on
a written statement, but of course the de-
fendant had no control over this part of
the courts work. The Evening News
contained whole column about it at the
time and it is not necessary for me to GO
into it further now. We had no oppor-
tunity to watch the proceedings in sum-
moning Of jurors.
"But this is not the question. AT the
very beginning of the trial the court told
me that my attorneys would attend to
my case, nevertheless, they did not. As
stated, your honor, before, they set up this
infamous plea of insanity againstmy will
but, your honor, the issue is, did do
right, or did l do wrong. Did do my
duty or not, did do the will of God or
did l not? This point has never been
touched upon and say it is the only is
sue before the court"
ASKS ARREST OF JUDGMENT.
just before Judge Brentano began the
delivery of his speech denying the motion
for a new trial, Attorney Gregory filed a
motion for arrest of Judgment, which was
overruled. He then asked for thirty days
in which TO file bill of exceptions, upon
which to take the case to the supreme
court. This was granted and Prendergrast
was sentenced to hang subsequently, in
less than thirty days. It is stated, how
ever, that if it became necessary the court
could then extend the time and fix a new
date for the execution. 1t is probable
that the bill of exceptions will be flee
within ten days.
SENTENCED TO HANG.
When Judge Brentano ordered Prender
gast to stand up and receive sentence the
prisoner appeared utterly Indifferent
The judge during his remarks said: "Yor
have had fair and impartial trial and
was defended BY able counsel; despite this
the jury have found you guilty, anu that
when you committed the act you fully
understood it, and its consequences, anG
that you might have controlled your &C
tions if you had so willed. The solemn
and painful dnty now devolves upon me
to impose sentence and the judgment Of
law, which is that you, Patrick Eugene
| Prendergast, between the hours Of 1C
o'clock in the forenoon and 2 o'clock ir
the afternoon, ON the 23d day of March
A. D. 1894, in the manner provided by
the statutes of this state, be hanged by
the neck until you are dead.'