Klementowicz. Prendergast's story is one of the subplots in Erik Larson's 2003 best-selling non-fiction book The Devil in the White City. See also The Devil in the White City Charles Guiteau, assassin of President James Garfield with similar motives Footnotes Bibliography Larson, Erik, The Devil in the White City, Crown Publishers, New York, 2003. 1868 births 1894 deaths 1893 murders in the United States American people convicted of murder People executed for murder Criminals from Chicago Illinois Democrats People from County Galway Executed Irish people 19th-century Irish people 19th-century executions by the United States American assassins People executed by Illinois by hanging 19th-century executions of American people People convicted of murder by Illinois Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923) Irish people executed abroad