Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-05-29

esody of the Physician-Theory of the
Cause of the Mysterious Assassination
The Doctors Puzzled.
CHICAGO, H., May 23.-Dr. Cronin's
body was discovered by three men who
are employed on the sewers of Lake
View. S. j. Peterson, foreman of the
sewer-cleaning department., passed
along Evanston Avenue and Fifty-ninth
Street, and noticed a bad odor from the
ever. Thinking that perhaps the
water was not running freely be ordered
Sub-Foreman Henry Rosch to 60 to
that locality and clean the sewers.
They did SO, and through the grating Of
the outlet saw the body. 1t was re-
moved to the morgue under b Lake
View police station. The point where
the body vas found is but a short dis
lance beyond the spot where the mys-
FERROUS trunk was discovered.
CHICAGO, H., May 23.-Nothing has
caused so much excitement In Chicago
since the Anarchist sensations as the
discovery of the body of DR.. Cronin, the
missing physician, in a W near the
outskirts of the city,, late yesterday
afternoon. To-day nothing is talked of
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other %lounging places, but the mvs-
terious tragedy. 1t is freely charged
that he was assassinated by members of
the Clan-na-G8l. The evidences
that DIR. Cronin was deliberate
ly murdered are go positive as
to leave no doubt that he
was the victim of a foul conspiracy.
The body to-day bears all the evidences
of the terrible crime. Stripped of it's
clothing, as when it was found, the re-
mains, bloated and discolored as they
are, show the marks of the assassin's
tool. On the head are six deadly
Notwithstanding three skull fractures.
through the superstition of the MUIR
derers, an Agnus Del, an emblem of
Catholic devotion that hung around the
neck of the man. was lett untouched.
Although ever shred of clothing that
could lead to the Identification Of the
body had been removed, hundreds
of the friends Of the dead man state
positively that the body is that of DR..
Cronin.
Further examination this mornin.
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 establishing the
fact that the man found in the
Of Cronin; that the cotton
batting found / n the trunk and that
found with the body correspond, it has
been shown that the towel found wrap
ped around the head corresponds close
ly with a shred of stuff found in the
trunk. It still remains to connect the
fragment of cloth clutched in the dead
mans hand with the piece from which
it was torn.
Later Col. w. P. Rend arrived at the
station and was taken to the morgue.
The moment Mr.. ReEd saw the corpse
he exclaimed: "That is Cronin." He
closely examined the body and said:
There is no doubt about it now. There
a most foul and awful murder. | can lay
my hand upon the head of the man
that instigated the crime. l can point
him out and make no mistake"
Mr.. Rend Was questioned about this
statement, but would only say that all
he knew he would tell the states attor-
ney. Half an hour later the states at
torney and two of his assist
ants arrived. Judge Longenecker
first examined the bloody trunk
and the corpse of Cronin, and
was then closeted for an hour with Mr..
Rend. After the consultation the gen.
tlemen would say no more than that
several arrests would surelys be made
this afternoon. BY noon to-day over
200 persons had identified the body as
that of Cronin.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, May 23.-Judge Longe-
necker, in an interview to-day. said:
Woodruff story mystifes me. I think
that the fellow is lying. or at least, has
told lots of lies, but there was one
statement Of his hat shows a
connection with the murder OF
Cronin that interests me. Woodruff
says that when he was at the stables a
mau who he thinks was the doctor was
there. The man, SO Woodruff says, had
a moustache and imperial, and he had a
badly bruised eye. Well, when I saw the
body to-day, / noticed that the doctors
right eye was badly bruised, having
received severe blow, and it is not at all
unlikely that the doctor was murdered
after he received that black eye. Wood
ruff may be telling some mighty big
falsehoods, but whct he does say will
bear looking into"
Tonight, thirty hours after the dis
covery of DR.. Cronin's corpse, the mys-
terry of his death had deepened, not
cleared. The manner of his taking-off
is now the darkest secret of all. 1t has
been almost conclusivelv shown that
contrary to appearance, his skull was
not cloven, or eve fractured. There is
absolute certainty that the man was
not strangled. The doctors are COM
pletely puzzled. The beginning of the
p~ost-mortem took place early this even
ing. In preparation the morgue was
cleared ofall idlers and curiosity-seek-
ers, and physicians commenced the
post-mortem examination which kept
half a dozen doctors at work nearly three
hours. Dr.. Todd, the county physi-
cipn, and his assistant, DIR. Ebbert,
conducted the examination. The skull
was cut open and the brain removed. |
After the scalp had been taken off, the
physicians discovered that the bones
composing the skull had scarcely been
marked by the blows of the sharp in
struments which it 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