Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — CARTER HARRISON’S ASSASSIN. [ARTICLE]

CARTER HARRISON’S ASSASSIN.

His Trial Will Come Off During tlie Bast Week of November. Eugene Joseph Prendergast, the assassin of Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has been very quiet, except for the first few days, since his arrest, and has refused to answer any questions. Instead of being the criminal hero he expected to become he finds he is despised by all. The prisoners, his fellows, have been outspoken in their denunciations of him, and he knows their sentiments well. This general feeling of abhorrence had its effect on Prendergast, and after a few days’ incarceration he lost much of the fierce look and speech of madness which he betrayed on his arrest. When the physicians appeared to make an examination of him the other day he was perfectly quiet, and refused to speak further than to answer necessary questions. He was subjected to a most elaborate physical examination. His head and body were measured, his eyesight tested, and his heart and lungs sounded. The physicians at the end refused to give the results until they had consulted together. And, in anv case, they said, the trial was the only proper time for them to speak. Prendergast was brought before Judge Dunne for examination. His lawyers asked for thirty days’ postponement in which they might call witnesses from a distance. The case was set for Nov. 27. This proved satisfactory, and Prendergast was taken back to his cell. The defense will be insanity, and the prosecution will endeavor to prove that Prendergast is not insane.