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CHICAGO Nay 2-The dead BODY Of
Dr.. T. Is. Croain, ths Irish-Ameriean Who
strangely disappeared from his home in
CMcego two weeks agQ. was found Last
evening some distaneo north q the oitv
N sswer On Evanstoa vsa1A A bloody
towel Was wrapped about tie hsaA. n
: rsst OF the hody vas stark naked. a
Catholic emblem which the doctor slvavs
~ere next his skin suspsnded about his
neck VA untouched On the dead MANI
f>hsad were . dox.n deep euta which had
, Jevered the scalp and tnAeated the skuil
II . the opinion Of IL polics that Croain
VA foully murdered md b. some man
Eho coold moi bring himself 70 disturb Q
OAtholic txinket
Much oXcitomout Was shown NJ detective
headQuartefs when doubt g 70 the iden.
tits Of tie body was finally removed By
definite messages from LAkevieW. Il
was evident from the expressions OF the
officials that one Of the first objects
OF the police would Be to have
. number OF suspicious assertions ex.
piained-assertions made BY supposed
friends c: Cronin. Lieutenant Elliott will
have these people at the Inquest and de-
mand an explanation full and complete
The detectives claim that they have been
handicapped from the start by . lack Of
assistance from those who claimed to
know all concerning the doctors disap.
pearance.
Wholly accidental circumstances
brought the corpse to light. A gang of
laborers in the employ of the Lakeview
suburban government had been cleaning
the bitches along Evanston avenue during
the week Yesterday Foreman Henry
koesche and two men were " orking north
of the east side Of Evanston avenue
toward Ffty-uinth street. when, IS they
neared the catch basin at the corner, they
noticed a strong smell Of putrefying nesh,
and Roesche pulled OF the top of the catch
basin with his spade and uncovered the
body Of DR.. Cronin- 1t had apparently
been hastily pitched into the basin. for the
head was underneath and the feet and
legs were up in the opening.
The place where the corpse was dis.
covered is about G09 yards from the Ar
eyie Park station Of the Chicago and Ev.
anston branch Of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St Paul railroad, but two or three
blocks from the lake and nearly q mile
north from the corner OF Sulzer street and
Evanston avenue where the mysterious
b~ioodstaiued trunk was found on the day
after Cronin's disappearance.
Immediately upon tax a the body out
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titled the Lakeview police station and
was placed in the Lakeview morgue.
which occupied the front room in the base.
msnt under the station.
Telephone messages were sent to the
city police and an hour after the finding
of the body a dozen Of Cronin's friends
Were at the station. The three Seaman
brothers. who have been intimate with
Dr. Cronin, were among the first who ar.
rived They all but positively identified
the body as that OF CrOnin upon first sight
Later il was unqualifiediy identified by 7.
7. Conklin, the saloonkeeper with whom
Crouin lived. and by James Boland and
Patrick McCarty.
During the eveninc d.. j. p Brandt
president OF the Cook County hospital
staff. who was ar acquaintance of Cro-
nin's, carefully examined the body and
positively identified il as that of the miss.
in man.
Dr.. Brandt's examination showed that
upon the head We're the following cuts and
bruises: Oser the left temple, q cut four
inches long through the scalp and into
che skull: over the left par fetal bone, q
IT one and one-half inches long which
fsarked the skull; also q cut one and a
half inches long over the frontal bone at
the junction OF the left parietal q Gu:
three inches long.
Among many others the dentist who
last worked on Cronin's teeth reached the
station late IN the evening and positively
identified she body, as did the man who
for years had been Cronin's tailor.
Shortly after the body had been re-
moved to the police station the street was
damned with vehicles and scores Of PEG.
pie were crowding for admission to the
basement where lay the doctors remains.
O@cers were stationed on the stairway at
the basemsnt door, and were q or twice
obliged to use their clubs in forcing the
crowds back. The tnnult continued far
into the night
vho had known Cronin had identified the
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body and the towel At LakevieW until the !
coroner orders otherwise.
The man Woodruff. or Black, Who, after
his arrest . fortnight ago confessed to
having helped carry OF . trunk contain
ing q corpse of q woman from . barn in
the city the night OF Cronin's disappear
ance, was interviewed last night in Jail He
manifested no surprise or discompo~ure
when Old that the body OF d.. Cronin
had been found north Of where the trunk
was discovered but while he apparently J
talked freely about the matter he seemed
careful not to 60 outside the story he had
originally told. He repeatedly said that
if be had not been Locked up in Jail he
could and woul have cleared up the
trunk mystery before this time
Alexander Sullivan, ex-president Of the
Irish National League, was horror.
when told OF the discovery Of