Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-05-30

ing the catch basins About o'clock
they arrived at the corner of North Fifty
ninth street and Evanston road Rosch
crossed over from the north to the south
side of the street where he began shoveling
out the sand in the ditch near the catch
basin.
When within a foyv foot ef tho b~s;sa no
detected the odor of dead body and
called out to his assistants: 81 guess there's
dead dog here" He got down on his
knees and looked into the catch basin
through the iron bars at the size. What
he saw made him recoil with horror.
There, wedged down into the narrow catch
basin, was the body of a man partly
screened from view by lot of cotton bat
ting that had been thrown over it. He
called his two assistants, who merely
glanced at the body and retreatel.
Rosch told the men to stay there and at
once ran to Argyle Park station, where he
telephoned to the Lake View police station
an account of his discovery. The patrol
wagon fastened TO the spot. Upon ar
irving there the officers removed the top
of the catch BASIN The body was then
clearly brought to view. 1t was floating,
face downward, i'm about two feet of water.
The body was doubled up almost like a
partly opened jack-knife. Great ax-like
cuts were in the head, and numerous other
marks of violence. 1t was Immediately
taken from the hole, wrapped in blanket,
and taken to the Lake View police station.
The news of the discove soon spread
throughout the town of Lake View, and
and large, showing crowd gathered in
front of the station house and clamored to
see the body. A squad of policemen
pushed them hack and admitted, two or
three at time, the friends and acquain-
tan es of the murdered man, who had been
net fl d to come.
DR.. +. S. Sieber, member of the Royal
league with Cronin and friend of eight
years stan ling, was the first 10 see the
body. He looked at it long and doubt
fully my impression, said he, sis that
it is the body OF DR.. Cronin, but / won't
be positive"
James f. Scanlan, one of the doctors s
nearest friends and the one who has been
leading the investigation, arrived. He
looked the body over carefully. Swinging
by small silken ord from the dead mans
neck was a small agate "Agnus Del, - a
pious emblem of the Catholic church.
THAT was the doctor's,' said he. ''The
doctor had remarkably hairy arms and
legs: so has this man. The hair and mus
tache-what is left of them-are those Of
Cronin. Cronin was 3 feet IL inches
How long is this MANI
The body was measured. 1t was just
feet II inches in length.
''Let me see the teeth, - said Mr.. Scan
Ian; "that will settle it, The lips were
parted and a row of large upper teeth re-
vealed, the right eye-tooth missing. In
the range of lower teeth was one conspicu-
ously black.
Those are the teeth of DR.. Cronin, and
l am certain this is his body. l can't
stand this; let me get out. -
AS Mr.. Seaman went out Mr.. 7. T.
Conk in, looking sick and faint, came in
and looked at the discolored mass of flesh
for fully fifteen minutes and then declared
that it was the body of Dr. Cronin.
j. c. O'Keefe of 126 Washington
street, the Coctor's taller, measured the
body ard said he was certain it was that
of Cronin.
Clark street. who has dressed the doctors S
hair ana beard for more than "A year. roc
ognized the remains as those Of the doctor.
There was seven horrible wounds on tie
bead apparently inflicted with a hatchet
or some similar weapon. DR.. j. r. Brandt
of the county hospital made careful ex-
animation Of the wounds. He described
the wounds as follows:
A wound on the left temple, at the cor.
ner OF the left eye, one and one. half inches
long. This wound crushed the skull and
may have caused instant death. A wound
one and half inches long, cut to the
skull on the left parietal bone and ex-
tending to the frontal bone. A wound,
also cut to the skull, three inchos in length
on the oscipital bone at its juncture with
the parietal lone. A cut over the occipi-
tai bone four inches long A cut over the
ri. ht parietal bone two inches in length.
A heavy confusion on the frontal bone,
near the edge of the hair. A bruise on the
right Leg near the knee.
In plain language the skull was crushed
at the outer corner of the left eye; there
was big dent in the forehead; cut
nearly two inches long on top OF the
head; cut over two inches long midway
between the left ear and the top of the
head; another cut joining this at the lower
end and extending toward the left
temple for two inches; huge fcut nearly
four inches long on the back Of the head,
extending nearly from ear to ear, and q
cash under the chin.
"These cuts, !" said DIR. Brandt 'were
made with a Ratchet l believe. They did
not break the skull, but cut to it, Any
one Of them would knock a man insensible
and might result In death. The wound
near the left.eye would cause death almost
at once, for the temple is crushed in. None
Of these wounds so far as can now Judge,
was made after death. The man must