Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1894 — PRENDERGAST HANGED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PRENDERGAST HANGED.

Tha Asaanln of Mayor Harrison Fays the ; Penalty.

Patrick Eugene Prendergast, who killed Mayor Carter Harrison, of Chicago, last October, was hanged at Cook county Jail, at 11:46 a. m., Friday, July 13. His counsel had exhausted every possible expedient and worked assiduously in his behalf up to Friday morning. The prisoner died game and made no remarks after leaving his cell. Pregdergast had announced his intention to make a speech from the scaffold, but was dissuaded by Sheriff Gilbert. The assassin bore up much better than was expected.

PATRICK EUGENE PRENDERGAST.