Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-28
DIR. CRONIN,s BODY FOUND.
The Police are of the Opinion that He
was Murdered.

Irish-Amerlcan, who strangely dlsap-
peared from his home in Chicago, two
weeks ago, was found this evening
some distance north of the city in tie
sewer on Evanston avenue. A bloody |
towel was wrapped about the head,
but the body was stark naked.
A Catholic emblem, which the doc
tor always wore next his skin, sus-
pended about the neck, was I'M
touched.
On the head was dozen cuts
which had severed the scalp and in
denied the skull. 1t is the opinion of
the police that Cronin was foully
murdered.
Much excitement was shown at
detective headquarters when all
doubt as to the identity of the body
was finally removed by definite mes
sages from Lakeview. 1t was evil
dent from expressions of the police
that one of the first objects will be to
have explained assertions by supposed
friends of Cronin.
Lieutenant Elliot, chief of the de-
tectives, will have these people at the
inquest and demand an explanation,
full and complete. Detectives claim
that they have been handicapped
from the start by lack of assistance
from those who claimed to know all
concerning the doctors disappear
ance.
81 will have this information now"
said Lieutenant Elliot, " or there will
be lumber Of prompt arrests"
Wholly accidental circumstances
brought the corpse to light. A gang
of laborers who were cleaning bitches
along Evanston avenue, noticing near
the corner of Evanston avenue and
Fifty ninth street strong smell OF
putrid flesh, one of the men pried of
the catch basin at the corner, and
there discovered the corpse. 1t had
apparently been hastily pitched into
the basin, as the head was under
meath, and the feet and legs in the
opening. This basin is located nearly
mile from where the mysterious
bloodstained trunk was found on the
day after Cronin's disappearance.
1t seems altogether remarkable
that it was not sooner discovered, fol
the Lakeview police started out te
search all catch basins in that suburb
the week after the trunk was found
One of the searchers said to-nigh
that they had missed the basin where
the body was hid.
= The body was Immediately taker
! to Lakeview morgue, and within al
hour dozen of Cronin's friends wer,
at the station. They were quite sure
it was that of the missing doctor, ane
their opinion was verified later by thu
l. catch basin.
The MAN Woodruff, or Black, wh'
II after his arrest, confessed to having
IL helped to carry off a trunk containing
y corpse, which he claimed was tina
IL of woman, from a barn in the cit,
T. on the night of Cronin's disappear
ance, was interviewed tonight il
jail. He manifested no surpris
when told of the discovery, but Will
i talking freely about the matter h
seems careful not to go outside of tn
e story he had originally told. H
10 says that if he had not been locke
>. up in Jail he could and would hav
;. cleared up the mystery before thi
y time.
u DIR. Blandt, who examined tn
'' body, said the blows on the hea
~ must have been inflicted by som
= sharp instrument. There would seer
=" to be no possibility of doubt as t
- the identification of the body. Anon
many others who expressed a positiv
- opinion in regard to it was DENTS
who recently worked on Cronin
y teeth, and also man who for year
- had been Cronins tailor. 1t wa
- thought that Cronins body was co,
" cred in the mysterious bloodstaine
10 trunk. There was cotton foun
. about the feet and under the chi
: of the corpse, of the same quality a
" that found in the trunk, and thread
of cloth found in the cotton in tn
trunk correspond in appearance wit
the threads of the towel wrappe
about Cronin's head.
- The body was much swelled an
in an advanced stage of decompos
. ton, owing to its long stay undo
water.
Shortly after the news Of the fine
y inp of the body had been receive,