Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-06-01
DR.. CR0NIN FOUND
The Body Of the Missing Doc
tor Discovered IN u
Sewer.
1t Is the Opinion Of the Police
That He Was Foully
Murdered.
Only by Accident Was the Corpse
FOnnd-Nu Doubt az 10 the
Identification tf the I'm.
fortunate Mans Body.


CHICAGO, May 23.-The dead body of
DR.. Cronin, the Irlsh-American who SO
strangely disappeared from his home in
Chicago two weeks ago, was found last
night some distance north OF the city in u
W on Evanston avenue. A blood,
towel was wrapped about his head, but
the body Was stark naked. A Catholic
emblem, which the doctor always wore
next TO his skin, suspended about his
neck, was untouched On his head were
a dozen cuts, which had severed the
scalp and iBdented the skull. 1t is the
opinion of the police Cronin was ioully
murdered. Much excitement WAS shown
at detective headquarters when all doubt
as 10 the iuenity Of the body was finally
remove by oebIite messages from Lake
View. IL was evident from the express
sion OF the police that one Of their arst
objects wtil be 10 have explained sone
assertions by the supposed flend5 OF
Cronin. Lieutenant Eliot, chef of de-
tectiVes VIII II thos pc pie at toe in
quest and dt ma,d an t~Aplcua'lun, fnl
and compile, The DE- ectIyes claim they
save been handicap ped from the start 10y
q lack o. as-intahCe from those WAC
Stained 10 know al concerning the Il &c
tors disappearance. Il viii nave 'hie
Information nos, AID Lieutenant
Eliot, or there vii be a number of
prompt actes,s,
Wn,ltS accibsntai circurs' ances
brought NE curprr 10 ll4ht A gag ~
taborers " hU were G. an ia dit hrr al rg
Evanston avenue, noticed near he o.
ner OF Ey ,nstpn avenue an Fft am IA
street. IA r fouS sneIi If putr ned tlesa
One Of ia, men uutied IN ne ruvoT Of
the C ten hhs ~ a. lnc cpFner anu "a, r-
discov' red tht corpse IL had appar-
entN been basnll pt'ched MO VI" y ASIA,
~ the head was uud rucaia and tue fcct
ana IL gs Ia the op, mug. his basin ls
Toe tted near u urie from wn,re The
mysterlp A. blood stain'd iunk VAS
found on the day At or Cronib's dlsap
pearance. ii seems altO-tthtr r-u ack-
able tina II VAS ho sOvoer 0iecov, rri.
for the Lake View police started Jut e.,
search al he Ctich has ns Ia Nat ~ u.p
the week after The frank was t0und Dae
OF the searctets SAM 10 ny that M,
had mi-sed the basin whrre the body
WA hid. The Dpdy was imm a.
Atel, taken 10 the Lake View mOtsu
And within IN hour "A dozen OF trorln
friends were IN he station They wtte
quite sure the body WAS that % The niss-
tuG NOClOI, bllu lUflI bDlnibu " hs NtTD'ltI
LAT by I. [. COnklln win hUn Cto-
ain lived, and a'so by Others. DR. Brandt,
who examined The body, sad tie BOYS
On the head must have been mn cted b,
some sharp INST ument. Tn, r. would
seem TO br no possibility of u q Iubt IA TO
she identification of tue boGy. Among
many oh,rs VINO exp ssed a positive
opinion In regard TO II was "A dentlst who
recently worked on Cronln's teeth, and
also a man who tor years had been Cfo-
Minis tailor. IL is thought that Cronin's
body was carried In the myst-rir us blood
stained trunk. There wa cotton found
about the feet and under the chin
Of the corpse of the same quality
a. hat found in the trunk. and
threads of cloth found IN the cotton in
the trunk correspond in Ape aranCe with
the threads of the towel wrapped about
Oronin's head. The body was much
swelled and in an advanced state OF de-
com positlou, owing to its long stay under
water in the catch- basin. The man
Woodruff or Black, wno, after :he ar
rest, confessed 10 having helped TO carry
of the trunk containing the corpse,
which ne claimed was that IF a woman,
from = b rn in this city on The night Of
Cronin s dis tpptarance, Vas 'ntervieSed
last night ~ Jail He manrfesJe 10 sur
prise when old of the DIS ovety, "
while Ia siuy fr, ely nbou, III maI,-r H.
r., a. careful NOT to 20 ortsid. Of tue
story he had orieinail, told. He r peat
eddy sad that if he had not been loct ed
ap in jai ne could aud wou d nave
slesreo mp the nv stery b tore this time.
A'exanier sullivan, .X-pre-idenl Of the
Irish National league, WAS horror.
stricken WHEN old of the discovery Of
DR.. Cronu's body. He said he was at u
loss 10 knOS what 20 Say, further than
that he w.s ~dLmfoun"ed, ss hc has be-
lieVed al along that DR. Ctonin would
turn up all riVht in the Course Of time
He had no theories whatever to advance
rs TO the probable Cause Of tie do tors
murder. In reference to the sta ement
made nv aome Of Cronin's friends at the
time If the %latter's Disappearance that he
{Sulliva, knew more about the matter
than he cared to tell, Mr., Sullivan said
ne hal treated that report with con-
tempt ~ the time and had nothing else
for il now. He added that he was nor
ritled 10 hear of the murder, AMI will 20
everything Ia his power To help place the
guilty persons wh'rA they belong,
WILL MAKE soaR ARRESTS.
A large plumber Of people visited the
m0rgue at l. axe View this moruidg To
visit the remains Of DR.. Cronin. There
is no doubt but hat the body il Cronin
ss 1t has been id"nfifed by scores Of
people who were Intimately acquainted
with the doctor, The irqu.st ~ill be
acid s,metimc this afternoon. L'eu'en-
ant Elliot s H es hat the police cap c'rd
to n AXE some arrests to day and aih"d:
1T w,uldn [ he n arrest, but a large
aamber He refused 10 say what in.
formation he bad nr TO intimate who was
10 be placed in custody.
T GRANGER STUART, VI. D., r. r 8 Z,
Ordiuar Ply tan 10 II. NJ tae Qlen IN
65,tiand. Professor OF Practice of Phystc
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