Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-23
GROWN WAS KILLED.
His Body Discovered in a Chicago
 Sewer Basin.
Tho Skull Crushed and Knife Wounds
 on3 the Head and Body-A Grocer
 Brings About tho Finding of the

CHICAGO, May 23.-The mystery of Dr. P. H. Cronin's disappearance has been solved by the finding of his body. He was murdered, but the mystery of his murder has not yet been cleared up.
 The body was found last evening in a badly decomposed state in the manhole of a sewer near the Marine hospital at Edgewater, in Lake View, and not far from the spot where the bloody trunk was found on tho day following the doc tors disappearance. The police had nothing to do with the discovery.
 A grocer from Argyle park delivering goods was attracted by the stench from the manhole, and getting 1t opened, was startled by the ghastly sight of naked human body doubled up at the bottom of the manhole. The police were called, and when the body was taken up it pre- sented horrible spectacle.
 The skull was crushed ip by blow from some blunt instrument, from the base to the top. there were two knife '.en nds on the temple and several cuts b-ut the body.
 Tho body was soon identified by Lake View Irishmen as that of Dr. Cronin, and | later John F. Scanlan, an intimate friend | from Chicago, who fiocked to the scene, placed the fact beyond question. | It was also viewed by Mayor Belden- l week, of Lake View; T. T. Conklin, Dr. F. P. Porter and others who knew Dr. l CronIn. By all these the body was iden- tffed and positively declared to be that of missing Dr. Cronin. A dentist also identified the body from work done on the doctors teeth.
 The news spread like wildflre through 1 Chicago and groups of excited Irishmen were to be found everywhere discussing l the news. Fierce denunciations of the police for their negligence and their | Bncering and contemptuOuS treatment of Cronin's friends was heard on every side, ssIndigna.ion is now directed to the slandcrous and misleading reports which daily went forth from this city with a view of blackening Cronln's character, and those who hinted that he had gone to join the British spy, Le Caron, arc in a most unenviable position.
 Dr. Cronin disappeared on Saturday night, May i. He was summoned by O strange man with buggy to attend an alleged injured man in the employ of a Lake View ice-dealer named O'Sullivan, and told it was a case of life and death O'Sul;ivan had been introduced to Cronin short time before by justice of the peace named Mahony and asked his men in ease of accident for yearly fec. Both O'Sullivan and Mahony have pub licly admitted this. The messenger was to bring OSullivan's card. The man with the buggy brought the card and the doctor went with him unsuspectipgly forgetting in his hurry to take his ITO, volNcr
 Neither the man. the horse nor the buggy has ever been seen since, nor any tidings or the Doctor until his mutilated body was found that evening. O'Sullii Tan the ice dealer, says none of his men were hurt, and he did not send for Dr Cronin. He cannot account for thu strange man having his card, and know ing it would bring Cronin, as only tn, three present at tho arrangement - Gro min, O'Sullivan and Mahony-knew it.
 Cronin's friends have claimed all along hat he was murdered, and that ther, Was a conspiracy to murder him, ant that the murder was committed in tn interest of certain unnamed Irishmen not the heads of an organization. abou whom Cronin had made unpleasant dis closures calculated to ruin their infiu ence. They repeat these assertions witt greater emphasis, now, and claim tha they are close upon the track of tn muruerers and their instigators.
 This is one view. Alexander Sullivan
 takes totally different one. He sai
 that Cronin was not murdered by Irish men, and that he knew no revolutionar secrets,