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    After Patrick Eugene Prendergast was convicted of murder in his trial for the assassination of Carter Harrison III and sentenced to death by hanging,...
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    Patrick Eugene Joseph Prendergast (6 April 1868 – 13 July 1894) was an Irish-born American newspaper distributor who assassinated Chicago Mayor Carter...
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    Darrow took on the first murder case of his career, defending Patrick Eugene Prendergast, the "mentally deranged drifter" who had confessed to murdering...
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    October 28, 1893, Patrick Eugene Prendergast fatally shot Carter Harrison III (the mayor of Chicago) inside Harrison's residence. Prendergast's assassination...
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    the Cook County Criminal Court trying Patrick Eugene Prendergast on the charge of murder in the first degree for his actions in having assassinated Carter...
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    successful prosecution of Patrick Eugene Prendergast for the assassination of Carter Harrison II (successfully prosecuting Prendergast both in the murder trial...
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