People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1894 — PRENDERGAST HANGED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PRENDERGAST HANGED.

Carter H. Harrison’s .Assassin Executed at Chicago. Chicago. July 14.—At 11:47^a. m. Friday Patrick Eugene Joseph Prenderpast was hanged in the corridor of the Cook county jail for the murder of Carter H. Harrison. Prendergast re-

tained his nerve to the end and approached his doom without a faltering. He made no dying speech on the scaffold and not a word was spoken from the time he stepped on the trap until the end. The drop fell at 11:47% and the body was cut down at 11:58.

PRENDERGAST.