Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-23
MURDER WILL OUT.
The Mutilated Remains of Missing DR..
Cronin Found In Chicago,

OTcElu = Ouuu IN CnlcaYOs
CHICAGO, May 22d.-The latest sensation in
the Cronin case came to the fore late this after
noon, when telephone message from the Lake
view ponce station annOur ced that a body sllp-
pose d TO be thai OF the missing DR.. Cronin had
tai.
The body was wrapped in cotton similar to
that found IN the trunk which Woodruff claims
70 nave thrown away n Lake View after body
was removed from it by his two companions
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
CHICAGO, May 22d-The dead hodv of Dr
Cronln, the irish-American who strangely dis.
appeared from his home in Chicago two weeks
ago, was found this evening some distance north
OF the city in a sewer on Evanston 'ayenue
A bloody towel was wrapped about him but
the body was stark naked. A Catholic emblem
which the doctor always wore next his skin and
suspended about his neck was untouched ON
MS head were dozen cuts, which had severed
the scalp and indented the skull
Inc opinion OF the police is that Cronin was
foully murdered. Much excitement was SHOWN
at detective headquarters when all doubt as to
the identity was removed by definite messages
from Lake View. 1t was evident from the 2 X
pressions of the police that one of the first OBJ
Jects VIII nave to be an explanation of the
assertions by supposed friends of Cronin Lieut..
Elliott, Chief of Detectives will have these peo-
pie at the inquest and demand an explanation
ipll ana complete. The detectives claim that
lack of assistance from those who claimed to
know all concerning the doctors disappearance.
i Will have this information now,h said Ell
lott There will be a number of nromnt a..
rests" -"
Wholly accidental circumstances brought the
corpse to light. gang of laborers who were
cleaning bitches along Evanston avenue no.
tlced near the corner of Evanston avenue and
Fifty-ninth street strong smell of putrid flesh
one OF the men pried off the cover of a catch
oasln at the corner and there discovered the
corpse. II had apparently been hastily pitched
into the basin, as the head was underneath the
feet and legs in the opening
ms Dasln is located nearly a mile from
where the mysterious blood-stained trunk was
Iouho on tne day alter Cronin' 81 disappearance
II seems altogether remarkable that il was not
sooner discovered, for the Lake View police
started out to search all the catch-basins in
that suburb week after the trunk was fonnd
One of the searchers said tonight that they
had missed the basin where the body was
hidden.
The body was Immediately taken to the Lake
view Morgue, and within an hour a dozen of
Cronln's friends were at the Morgue They
were quite sure it was that of the missing doc
tor and their opinions were verified later by It
by others.
DR.. Brandt, who examined the body, said that
the blows on the head must have been inflicted
by some sharp instrument.
There would seem to be no possibility of
doubt as to the identification of the BODY.
Among many others who expressed positive
opinion In regard to 1t was a dentist who re-
Gently worked on Cronins teeth and also a
man who for years has been Cronirl's tailor.
1t is thought that Cronin's body was carried
in the mysterious blood-stained trunk. There
was cotton found about the feet and under the
chln OF the corpse of the same quality as that
found IN the trunk, and threads of clothing
found in the trunk correspond in appearance
with the threads of the towel wrapped about
Cronin's head.
The body was much swelled and in an ad.
vanced state of decomposition. owing to its long
stay under water in the catch-basin
The man Woodruff, or Black who after arrest
confessed hafriQd COZ Of
containing the corpse, which he claimed was
that OF woman, from a barn in the city on the
night OF Cronin's disappearance, was inter-
prise when told of the discovery but while talk
F., ing freely about the matter he seems careful
not TO go outside of the story ne had odgibstlly
told. He repeatedly said that if he had not beer
locked up in Jail he could and would have
cleared up the mystery before this time.
Alexander Sullivan, ex-President of the Ma
tlonal Lesgue, was horrorstricken tonight
when told of the discovery of Cronin's body
He was at a loss what to say, further than that
ne was dllmbfounded. as he believed all along
that Dr. Cronln would turn up all right in the
course of time. He had no theories whatever
or evidence as to the probable cause of the Gro
min murder.
In reference to the statement made by some
OF Cronins friends at the time of the latter 5
disappearance, that he (Sulliyan) knew more
about the matter than he cared to tell, Mr.. Sui
Ivan said he had treated that report with con-
tempt at the time, and had nothing. else for it
now. He added that he was Mortified to hear OF
the murder, and will do everything in his
power to help place the guilty persons where
they belong.
Shortly after the news of the finding of the
BODY was received a reporter called on Mrs.
Conklin at her heme where the doctor resided
When informed of the finding of the body she
SAID that she was not surprised, that she had
always said that he was murdered.
you will, said the reporter, undoubtedly
give the police the benefit of your knowledge
concerning the doctors enemies, to aid them in
finding the murderers?"
II don't know that I will,' she replied.
They seem to know so much that they won't
appreciate what | can tell them" and Mrs.
Conklin shut the door.
Her husband had an interview with the DO
ice Captain late tonight, but the officials deny
that he gave them any information OF i'm
portance. Conklin would not talk to the re-
porters.