The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-05-30
CRONIN WAS KILLED.
Disappearance of the Chicago Irish
American at Last Accounted
For.


For.
CHICAGO, May % The dead body of DR..
?. II. Cronin, the Irish-American who
irAngely disappeared from his home in
Chicago two weeks ago, was found this
evening some distance north of the city in
sewer on Evanston avenue. A bloody
towel was wrapped about the head. The
rest of the body was stark naked. A Cath
Olic emblem, which he doctor always wore
next 20 his skin suspended about his neck,
was unit 5uched. On the dead man's head
were q dozen deep cuts which had severed
the scalp and indenUed the skull. II is the
opinion OF the police that Cronin was foully
murdered, and by some man VINO could not
bring himself to disturb u Catholic trinket
Much CXC4temen was shown at detective
headquar .ers when doubt as to the identity
of the body was finally removed by definite
messages from Ls.keview. 1t was evident
from the expressions Of the officials that one
of the first objects OF the police
will be to have n number of suspi-
ClOus assertions Xp.ained-assertions made
by supposed friends of Cronin. Lieut. Elliott
will have these people at the inquest and de-
mand an exp!auHtion full and complete. The
detectives claim that they have been handi-
capped from the start by lack of assistance
from those VINO claimed to know all con-
cernirg
THE DOCTORS DISAPPEARANCE.
Lieut.. Elicit said soon after the finding of
the body: Il Will have this information now
or there will be number OF prompt arrests"
Wholly accidental circumstances brought the
corpse to light A gang of laborers in the
employ of the Llkeview suburban govern
ment haue been cleaning the bitches along
Evanston avenue during the week To-day
Foreman Henry Roesch and two men were
working north on the east side of Evanston
avenue towards Fifty-ninth street. As they
neared the catch basin at the corner they
noticed q strong smell of purifying flesh,
and Roesch pried off the top of the catch
basin with his spade and discovered the
body of DR.. Cronin. 1t had apparently been
hastily pitched into the basin, for the he:,d
was underneath and the feet and legs were
up in the opening The place where the
corps was discovered-Fifty-nin street and
Evanston avenue-s three hundred yards
from the Argyle Park station of the Chicago
& Evanston branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& s.; Paul railroad. 1t is but two or three
blocks from the lake, and nearly q mile
north from the corner of Su!Zer street and
Evanston avenue where the
MYSTERIOUS BLOOD STAINED TRUNK,
empty, was found on the day after Cronin's
disappear ance. 1t seems altogether remark
able that it was not sooner discovered, for
the Lakeview police started out to search all
the catch basins in the big suburb the week
after the trunk was found. Aid Maxwell
of the L2key1ew council, who was one of the
searchers, said tonight:
! We started out two days after Cronins dis
appearance to search every catch basin
along Evanston avenue. There were fifteen
men under Capt Wing and q half dozen
volunteers engaged IN the hunt for the body.
We looked first through all the catch
basins in the neighborhood of SulZer street
and Evanston avenue, where the trunk was
found, and east and west from that corner
Then we looked through the basins north
and south along Evanston avenue. but fin
ally came to the conclusion that the trunk
had been left Tor a blind, and that in
all likelihood the body had been hid
den some dist:nce away. We then went to
Graceland aud looked in the basins for half
n mile up and down the avenue and along
the cross streets, and worked five or six days
before giving up the search. By mere bad
| luck we stopped TWO blocks north of Fifty
ninth street and consequently missed the
catch basin where the body Was hid
THE BODY IDENTIFIED.
immediately upon taking the body out of
the basin Foreman Roesch notified the Lake
view police station and summoned the patrol
wagon. The body was stretched out in the
Lakevew morgu which occupies the front
room in the basement under the sta
tion. 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 Scan
Ian brothers, who have been intimate with
DR.. Cronin, we're among the first who ar
rived. They all positively identified the
body as that of Cronin upon first sight
Later it was urqualiiedIy identified by I. T.
Conklin, the saIoonReeper, with whom Cronir
lived aud by James Roland and Patrick
McCary. During the evening DR.. j. r
Brandt, president of the Cook couuty hos
pital staff, who was an acquaintance o1
Cronin's. carefully examined the body, anG
positively identified it as that of the missing
man. Among many others, the dentist who
last worked on Cronir's teeth reached the
station late in the evening, and
POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED THE BODY,
as did the man who for years has been Gro
Minis tailor. A great hubbub was caused il
the suburb by the finding of the CORPSE
Shortly after the body had been removed tx
the police station the street in from
was jammed with vehicles, and scorer
of people were crowding for admis
sion to the basement where laI
the doctors remains. Officers were stationed
on the stairway and at the basement door
aud were once or lwce obliged to use thei
clubs in forcing the crc y back The tumul
coetinued far into the night Lon!
before midnight at least forty mel
who had known Cronin had identified tn,
body. The suburban police will keep th
body and towel at Lakeview until the coro
ner orders otherwise The man Woodruff O
Black who, after arrest fortnight ago, con
fessed TO having helped carry off a trunl
containing q corpse, that of a woman, b.
claimed, from a barn in the city the night o
Cronin's disappearance, was interviewed to
night in jail. He manifested no sur
prise or discompoSure when told that tn
body of DR.. Cronin had been found north @
where the trunk was discovered, but Will
he appnl emily to ked freely about the matte
D he seemed careful pot to go outside of tn
story he had originally told. He repeatedl
said that if be had not been locked up in ja
lie could and would have cleared up tn
trunk mystery before this time.
SULLIVAN DUMBFoUNDED.
Alexander Sullivan, ex-president of tn
Irish National league, was horror-stricke
-, tonight when told Of the discovered Of d.
Cronin's BODY. He said he was at a loss t
: know what TO say, further than that
, was dumbfounded, as he has believe
all along that DR.. Cronin would turn up al
right in course Of time. He had no theprie
: whatever TO advance as to the probable caus
of the doctors murder. In reference 10 tn
! statement made by some of CIonin's friend
ut the time of the latter's disappear
ance, that he (Suilivanl knew NOR
, about the matter than he cared to tel
Mr.. Sullivan said he had treated that repor
3 with contempt at the time and had nothin
: else for it now. He added he was horrifie
= to hear of the murder and will do eveFythin
; in his power 10 help place th
) guilty persons where they belong
J Shortlu n ftar I ha Ynaus of the 6nd:nu of th