Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-10-26
DOCTORS DON'T KNOW
WHETHER THB WOUNDS ON CRONlN'S
BODY KILLED HlA OR NOT.
Identification Evidence Taken Ysstsrday-The
Result Of the AuDpsy-Ihe Bl1od-sta
Trunk Carefully Guardel-John Dtvoy
Demands a RalractiOn.

CHICAG0, October - Inc expectation
OF new and startling evidence in the CroniD
case attracted large crowd to the Orimi-
nal Court to-day.
The crowd that sought to obtain ad-
mission wss even larger than that If yes
terday, and included many representatives.
of the fair sex. The bailfls that guarded
the entrance had their hands full 10 try
ing to prevent overcro8ding of the court
room.
Before court opened the bloOd.stained
trunk was transferred from the South Side,
where it had been kept since the Inquest,
to the vault in the State Attorney g oflice.
Ii will be introduced n evidence at on
early stsge Of the trisl.
The prosecution continued the Dresenta-
tion of witnesses whose Orly tes imony
was 10 the Identification Of the body found
in the catch basin as that of Dr.. Cronin.
The first witness called by the State was
Nicholas WallenbOrn, wholesale liquor
deoler at 3l9 East Division street. He had
known DR.. OrCnin for five years. He saw
the bC5y in the LakevieE morgue, aod rec
Oguizsd ii as that OF DR.. CfOnin. Heiden-
fled it by its general appearance.
Mr.. Forests cTOss-ex animation Cf Mr..
WslleobOn was very brief.
Z. T. Conklin, in whose hcnse DR.. Gro
min lived, WAS the mex. witness Mr.
Couklin knew Dr. OIOnin intimately. The
Doctor had been n member of his family
about ten years. Witness was called to the
Lskeview morgue nt 10 o'clock the night
of May %. and in compeny with John F.
Soanlan, John J. Cronin aud several other
friends, be recognized the body as that OF
DR.. Crouin. lie recognized it by the fore.
head, the hair, the nose, the teeth, the
hands, an injured finger, and the general
appearance. This pecuiiarity of the teeth
was that they we're large end wide apart,
and four Of his frOnl tselh in the lover
jaw were miesinR. He lad false teeth and
wore plate. One toOtA On the righ. side
vas mia ing,
Other witnesses, called for the Uurpo'e
of identifying the body, were John F.
Scanlan, a member of tha Olan-Ni-Gssl
and an intimate friend aad partisan of DR..
Oronin; Frank ScanlaD, brother Of John
F., and David P. Ahern, o merchant tailor
who made the Doctors clothes
The Identification wac perfect aud very
positive. II embraced tie height, eiza
and general appearance of the dead man;
the ahape of the goates, the confirmation
OF his face, particularly his forehead, the
shape and sizs Of his teeth, the shape Of q
once-broken finger ard the heavy gTowth
OF hair Oh lhe Doctors wrisls.
Ire next matter taken up was the find
ing of the body in the catch basin. The
two cleaners who discovered the body and
notified the police of the feet, aud the po-
llcemen who were sent aud assiated in re.
moving the body, were sTcrn as 10 this
point aud described the rocseding.
Lawyer Forrest, for he defense, made
the cross examination on this head very
searching, compelling the witnesses to "a
over the proceedings IL connection with
the removal Of the body with the utmost
minu,eness.
TIE taking OF
IDENTIFICATION EVIDENCE
was then resumed.
Patrick McGarry, boiler maker and q
friend of Dr. Cronin, identified the body
taken from the catch basin as that Of the
dead phyaician.
DR.. T. W. Lewis, a dentisi, who had
operated professionally on DR.. CrOuin'e
mouth, also identified the body. He de-
scubsd the peculiariiies of Dr. Oroniu's
mouth; the number of missiog teeth; the
form OF the jaw, etc. identified plate
with false tech attached as one be had
made for Dr. Cronin, snd said that a cast
of the mouth which he had made e tted
ths. of the corpse.
Dr. J. X. Ebert, assistant county ply
sician identified the plate attached rs the
o1e he hsd taken from ,he mouth of DR..
Ofonin on the dey af,or his body was
found. The court then took recess.
AT THE AFTERNOON SESSION.
Dr.. Egbert continued his testimony. He
proceeded to state the iac,s evolved By
the autopsy which he made 0pOn ths body
on the day following it's discovery. He de-
scribed the wounds at great length and
gave it 80 his opinion that death result
cd from theri. Allofthe wounds were upon
the head. The skull was not broken ex-
cept that small piece Of hone was
chipped Of at the corner Of the left e, e.
The witness then described the condition
of the internal organs and exhibited the
stomach and its contents TO the lawyers
and the jury. DR.. Egbert said that the
stomach seemed to contain only vegetable
substances. Among them be distinguish
ed corn, aud there were others which Te-
ssmbled cabbage and carrots. In his judg-
ment the doctor was killed within three
hcurs after having eaten. Cross-exGmina-
tion OF DR.. Z ebert developed that none Of
the wounds on the corpse were such as
would necessarily cause death.
1t was impossible also, the doctor ad-
mitted, to say whether The wounds were
Inflicted
BEFORE OR AFTER DEATH.
lie had tried to ascertain, hut was unable
to do 20. He had not sscsrteinsd that the
wounds affected any important nerves or
arteries, and he could not sTesr that they
in any manner affected the brain. Ii death
had resulted from the skull wounds it
would in all probability have b.en caused
by coucussiOn OF the brain. This usual
post mortem evidence Of such O result the
heart aud lungs baing filed with blood,
waa not found in this case. The question
was put 10 DR.. Egbert;
SIS it not true that the dead body as ex-
smined by you physicians, is it nctscienlih-
cally trus that you physicians found no
evidences in that body tha. weIe certain
and conclusive of the form Of deatb?'
Dr. EgbaT, replied: THAT u true
That is TIE GoG's truth, is i,?'
"Yes. Fir. "
DR.. EgbeTt Was Of the opinion that
death had occurred through excessive loss
of blood, but there was
NO CERTAINTY
OF it, he said.
Dr.. Ohallea F. Perkins, who g. the re
quest OF DR.. Egbert assisted at the post
mOItem, testified that in his opinion death
did not result from blood-le ting, but from
concussion of tie brain. The latter ofeau,
however, was too decomposed to afford auy
Information. The lsst witness of the day
was the undertaken who removed the
body after the post mOrtem, and who tts-
tilted that it remained in bis charge urtil
buried.
DEMANDS A RETBACTI0N.
John Dewey Pitches lotto Attorney
Forrest.
CHICAGO, October 25.-The Ne,cs to-day
publishes the following letter to the ed