What the records say
- When
- 28 Oct 1893
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 41.85° N, 87.65° W
- Description
- 1893 assassination in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Placed at the town its description names, Chicago.
Assassination of Carter Harrison III
1893 murder in Chicago, U.S.
On October 28, 1893, Patrick Eugene Prendergast fatally shot Carter Harrison III inside Harrison's residence. Prendergast's assassination of Harrison was driven by a delusion Prendergast held that he was entitled to be appointed the city's corporation counsel, and that Harrison had wrongfully deprived him of this.
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