Evening journal., 1889-05-23
CR0NlN WAS MURDERED.
His Body Discovered in a
Sewer Basin.
OTHER THEORIES DIssIPATED.

Many Evidences of the Fearful Death
Which He sufered-A CIew Through
Which His Murderers May Be Captured.
The Body Identified.
CHICAGO, May 3.-The body of Dr. p II.
Cronin, the Irish agitator, who disappeared
from his home two weeks ago, was found in
a catch basin on Evanston avenue. A towel
was wrapped about the head, but the rest Of
the body was stark naked The Catholic
charm, called the "Agnus Dei,n which the
doctor always wore next his skin, suspended
about his neck was untouched.
On the head were the marks left by dozen
deep cuts, which had severed the scalp and
indented tho skull 1t is the opinion Of the
police that Cronin was foully murdered.
Found In the Basin.
The body had apparently been thrown into
the basin, for the head was down and the
feet and legs were in the sewer opening
The corner Of Fifty-ninth street and Evans
ton avenue is about 300 yards from the Ar
gyle park station on the Chicago and Evans
ton branch Of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul railroad. 1t is but two or three
blocks from the lake and about nine tenths Of
mile north from the corner of Sulzer street
and Evanston avenue, where the empty trunk
was found on the day after Cronin's dsap-
pearance. There are four catch basins at the
intersection of the streets and the body was
found IN the one on the southeast corner
Friends Identify the Body.
Immediately upon taking the body out Of
hagfn I.aE VNnlf gfQf xya
titled. The body was stretched out in the
Lakeyiew morgue, which occupies the front
room in the basement under the station. Tele-
phone 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.
Later the body was more positively identi-
fed by Conklin, the saloon keeper with whom
Cronin lived, and James Boland and Patrick
McGary. In the evening DIR. J. r. Brand,
president of the Cook county hospital staff,
carefully examined the body and positively
identified it as that Of Cronin
Marks OF Death.
He discovered upon the head the following
cuts and bruises: Over the left temple, a cut
four inches long, through the scalp and into
the skulls over the left parietal bone a cut
ono and a half inches long, which also marked
the skull; also cut one and half inches
long over the frontal bone at the junction Of
the left parietal; a cut three inches long
through the scalp and marking the occipital
| bone; another, two inches long, also marking
| the occipital bone; large bruise back of the
| forehead on the right parietal bone, and near
II two cuts, each an inch long; bruises on
the left leg and severe contusions.
The doctor said that the blows must have
been made by some sharp instrument, per
haps an ice pick He said if tho instrument
had not been sharp the skull would have beer
fractured, whereas it was only indented o.
marked by the blows. DR. Brandt examined
the hair found Ia the trunk at Evanston ave
nue., and stated that it was DR.. Cronin's hair
The Body Was Carried in the Trunk.
There ara other reasons for believing that
Cronin's body was carried in the trunk
There was cotton found about the feet and
under the chin of the corpse Of the same
quality as the cotton found in the trunk,
and the threads of cloth found in the cotton
in the trunk corresponded in appearance
with the threads of the towel wrapped about
Crenin's head. When this towel was re-
moved part of Cronin's mustache came with
it, showing that decomposition was already
far advanced The body was much swollen
owing to its long stay under the water in the
basin. However, there can be no mistake as
to the Identification.
ut is Cronin's body" said John F. Scan
lon 81 knew it the minute l entered the
room, and was as certain of it then as l am
now, after making most careful examina-
tion.
''If had nothing else to 60 by, could
identify it by the teeth Cronin had two
large front teeth remaining in the upper jaw
and the left eye tooth gone. His lower teeth
were dark in the center, placed quite fal
apart and rounded in shape.
81 can identify the body also by the shap,
of the forehead, by the expression Of th,
mouth, and even by the hair, which remains
and the mustache and the goatee.
Victim of Foul Murder.
81 believe that he was the victim Of thu
foulest Of MURDERS he continued, II believe
that the fact that the 'Agnus Del was un
touched is most significant.
''The suspicious that we have all along en-
tertained as to the manner Of his death were
well grounded and expect TO see the perpe
traitors Of the deed brought to justice.
"Cronin's friends and fellow workers vii
spare no money or pains to bring about sucl
a result, and viii not stop until the instiga
tors as well as the perpetrators Of the criml
are discovered