The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-29

anything of the contract or could have used
| that circumstance to decoy the doctor TO his
| death. Sullivan was allowed to go.
| There are wild rumors to the effect that the
! police have made arrests OF one or more per-
| sons in connection with the murder, but the
| officers at work on the case deny tins.
! Judge Longnecker, in an inte rview to-day.
/ said: "Woodruff7s story mystifes me. / think
that the fellow is lyingor at least has told lots
| of lies-but there is one statement o. bis that
| shows a connection with the murder of Cronin
| that interests me. Woodruff says that when
he was at the stables a man, who he thinks was
the doctor, was there. The man, so Woodruff
says, had a mustache and imperial and had a
| badly bruised eye. WE'LL Wien saw the body
to-day noticed that the doctors right eye was
badly bruised, having received a severe blow
and it is not at all unlikely that the doctor was
| murdered after he received that black eye.
| Woodruff may be telling some mighty big false
| hoods, but what he does say VIII bear looking
| into"
The states attorney. being pressed for some
thing more definite, at last said: From all the
| information the police have we are convinced
! that there was great conspiracy. Right at
| this moment officers are on the track of a man
| whom we know, almost beyond doubt, was a
| principal in the crime. In twenty-four hours |
| hope and believe he will be behind the bars,
and then the whole hellish business will come
| out"
Further examination this morning goes to
strengthen the theory that it was the body of
Cronin and not that of a woman which was
! carried in the trunk. In addition to establish
| ing the facts that the hair found in the trunk
corresponded with that of Cronin, and that the
cotton batting found in the trunk and that
found with the body correspond, 1t has been
shown that the towel found wrapped around
the head corresponds with shred of stuff
found in the trunk. Ii still remains TO connect
the fragment of cloth clutched in the dead
mans hand with the piece from which
1t was torn.
During the forenoon Col. W. P. Rend ar
rived at the station aud was taken into the
morgue. The moment Mr. Rend saw the
corpse he exclaimed: That is CroninI" He
closely examined the body and said: There
is no doubt about it now. There is the body of
DIR. Cronin-the victim osa most foul murder.
/ can lay my hand upon the head of the man
who instigated the crime. can point him out
and make mistake"
Mr. Rend was questioned about this state
ment but would only say that all ne knew he
would tell the states attorney. Hall an hour
later States Atty, Longnecker and two of his
assistants arrived. Judge Longneeker first ex-
amined the bloody trunk and the corpse OF Dr.
Cronin, and was then cioseted for an hour
with Mr.. Rend. After the consultation the
gentlemen would say no more than that several
arrests would surely be made soon. By noon
to-day over two hundred psrsons had identified
the body as that of Croniss
The coroner this afternoon impaneled a
jury to make an investigation into the cause of
the death and then adjourned the hearing till
next Tuesday. pending the result OF an investi-
cation by the police.
Tonight, thirty hours after the discovery of
DR.. CrOnin's corpse. the mystery of his death
had deepened, not cleared. The manner of his
death is now the darkest secret of all. 1t has
been almost conelusively shown that contrary
to appearances his skull was not cloven, or
frapturad There ahsOlntp carfQinfv
that the man was not strangled. The doctors
are completely puzzled.
The beginning of the post-mortem took place
early this evening. In preparation the morgue
was cleared of idlers and curiosity-seekers and
the physicians began the post-mortem examina-
ton. This examination was most carefully
made and kept half dozen doctors at work
nearly three hours. DR. Todd, the county
physician, and his assistant. DIR. Egbert,
directed the examination. The skull was
cut open and the brain removed. After
the scalp had been taken off, the physicians
discovered that tue bones composing the
skull had scarcely acL marked by the
claws of the sharp instrument which
il was thought caused the doctors death. There
was no sign of congestion about the brain, but
the lungs and pulmonary cavity were filed
with blood. The physicians said that this
might have resulted from the fact that Cronin's
body was placed head downward in the catch
basin. 4 cut one-half inch deep was found
upon the neck, anu several DTuiSeb upon lile
limbs. The theory that he was choked to death
was easily exploded. The doctors found no
signs of suffocation, and discovered no bruises
about the neck such As would result from
strangling with a towel or rope. The
passage through the windpipe was unob-
structed.
The doctors present were taken aback on
finding there was no fracture of any of the
skull bones or small bones about the face. DR..
Todd was Of the opinion that the cuts in the
scalp must have been made by knife or some
lighter weapon than an ice-piek or
a hatchet, but could not account for
the cause of death except from the
contusions resulting from severe blows.
The other physicians could not agree TO
the cause of death, although all were of the
opinion that Cronin might have been killed by
the blow at the outer corner OF his left eye.
Even this blow was not hard enough to frac-
ture the bones under the skin. The teeth were
carefully examined by Dentist Shay. He said
there was no mistake in the Identification Of
the body because the plate found in the lower
Jaw was one he made for Cronin over year
ago.
When the post-mortem was finished the ply
sicans left the station without concluding the
written statement which they will hand to the
coroner at the inquest.
Meanwhile a number of gentlemen and
friends OF Cronin met in the front of the station
TO arrange the details of the funeral. Ii was
decided to hold the funeral services Sunday
and bury DR.. Cronin in Calvary cemetery. An
undertaken took charge Of the body when the
post-mortem was finished.
John Cronin, the brother of Dr. Cronin, ar
rived from Arkansas, and reached the station
in time TO see the remains before the physicians
commenced their work. BE positively identi-
fed the body.
Mr.. ConlIlin and Mrs. Conklin, with whom
Cronin resided for years, alighted in front of
the station this afternoon and pushed through
the crowd. Mrs. COnklin took seat within the
wire railing surrounding the sergeant's desk,
and for over an hour looked steadily out of the
window without moving her head. She sat
with her back to the people in the room and
did not speak to any one except her husband.
Permission was not asked for her TO see the
body. 1t was her first visit to the station since
the finding of the body.
BoNFlELD'S IDEA.