Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1894 — HE WILL HANG. [ARTICLE]

HE WILL HANG.

Prendergast Found Guilty and Sentenced to Haug, Prendergast, the assassin of Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, will hang for his crime. The case had been on trial for some time, and the attorneys for the defense had exhausted every effort to save their client’s neck, but the jury, after an hour’s deliberation following the Judge's charge, which was ■ concluded at 1:27 Friday, at 2:27 returned the following verdict: *’We, the jury, find the defendant. Patrick Eugene John Prendergast. guilty of murder in manner and form as charged io the Indictment and Ox the penalty al death.” CPrendegast was led away to his cell in the jail and Bailiff Becker was detailed to stay with him. The prisoner refused to see anyone. Efforts will be made to have a now trial by the defendant’s attorneys, who claim to bo disappointed over the result, stating that It is an outrage on human justice to hang a poor insane boy. They allege that at least on J jti’or perjured himself to obtain a position on the jury, and state that Prendegrast will never hang. The verdict was received with general satisfaction in Chicago and throughout the country. Sailors on French and English vessels have destroyed the villages of the Pentecost islands in the South Pacific. and driven the natives back in the bush. It was the latter who have been murdering and eating unfortunate while men, who came their way. Large quantities of human bones were found by the sailors.