The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-14
JUSTICE, But LONG DELAYED.

humble newspaper carrier, should ap.
! ply for a high office in the municipal
government. The thought took COM
| plete possession of his mind He ap.
! peared in Corporation Counsel Adolpf
Kraus' office one day and announced
| that he desired to succeed Mr.. Kraus
in the position. Mr.. Kraus laughed al
him and took the announcement as a
Joke, and Prendergast sneaked cut
with what eagerness he looked for the
newspapers the next morning. How
anXiously he hoped they would contain
an account of his visit to Mr.. Kraus
II they had probably Mayor Harrison
would be alive today. If they had,
Prendergast would probably have been
satisfied. He would have seen his
name in type. He would have lorded
it over the other carriers of whom the
public had never heard.
First Call on the Mayor.
But unluckily for Mayor Harrison
and for him he was disappointed. The
newspapers contained no mention of
the incident he had so carefully
planned.
EXasperated by his failure to secure
the notoriety he craved, Prendergast
determined to make another attempt.
At last he selected Mayor Harrison
He cased upon the mayor and with
all the gravity he could muster, stated
his desire to be appointed corporate
counsel. But the mayor was in good
humor and the righteousness of the
affair struck him, He chaffed Prem
dergast good-naturedly and speedily
forgot him. At any rate he did not
think it necessary to notify the news
papers, and again Prendergast failed
of his object. He was now more de-
termined than ever to attain it. He
rae x-al hot h. .,
INTO the newspapers even at the risk
Of arrest. He called again upon the
mayor and limited if his request did
not secure prompt attention it would
be the worse for the mayor. But his
cowardice prevented him from making
the hints ominouS enough to brighten
or even startle the mayor. Mr.. Harri-
son did not know fear and he treated
PrendergastS threats as lightly as he
had treated his requests. This time he
ordered Prendergast out of the office,
but in spite of that he did not think
the matter important enough to men
ton it.
Prendergast determined to write to
the mayor. His letters were not only
unanswered, but he could not be sure
they had ever been delivered Again
he called upon Mayor Harrison. This
time he was received briefly and was
warned to keep away and trouble the
mayor no more.
Last Bid for NOtoriety.
Desperate with his determination to
secure the longed for notoriety. Prem
dergast at last worked into a frenzy
and committed the frightful crime for.
which he died today
On the night of October %, 1893. Car
ter H. Harrison, mayor of Chicago.
was seated at dinner with his son and
daughter, in his residence on Ashland
boulevard. The door bell rang and a,
low browed, stumbling, ill-clad fellow
asked to see the mayor. When he was
informed the mayor was at dinner he
turned away and said he would return
later. When the man called again the
mayor was quietly doing on a divan
1t had been American Cities day at
the Worlds fair, and he had made the
best speech Of his life to the vast
throng of people. He was awakened
by the sound of voices and came to-
ward the door.
The man approached the mayor, said
something which was not overheard by
the servant, and then pointed a revol-
yer at Mr.. Harrison's breast and fired
The assassin ran into the street and
after discharging a ball at the pursu-
ing butler disappeared in Jackson
street. Shortly afterwards he surren-
dered himself to the police. About that
time Mayor Harrison expired in the
arms of Miss Anna Howard, of New
Orleans, to whom he was to be mar
ried in few days