San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-23

mission was his assertion that it was
| impossible to say what was legal and
what was illegal in Ireland, anything
that two resident magistrates said be-
| ing law. The insecurity of liberty I'M
der such circumstances is only too ap-
parent.
THE mystery concerning the mys-
FERROUS disappearance of DR.. II. H.
Cronin, of Chicago, is finally cleared
up by the finding of the body bearing
every mark of having been foully
murdered. The body was found in
sewer some distance north of the city,
on Evanston avenue, and the identity
of the body has been fully proven.
Laborers at work in Lakeview were
cleaning bitches and a putrid smell
led to an investigation which un-.
earthed the body in a catch basin
near the corner of Evanston avenue
and Fifty-ninth street. The discovery
has caused a great excitement. The
body was entirely nude with the ex-
ception of bloody towel wound
around its ! cad, and on the scalp
deep cuts, some of which had pene-
trated the skull. Some sensational de-
velopments may be expected. Be-
tween the efforts of certain of his as
socates 20 prove his departure for
Europe, the body in the trunk mys-
terry. and several suspicious circum-
stances among those who are sup
posed to know something of the
events Immediately proceeding his
disappearance, if not actually con-
nected with his murder-between
these, the public mind is unusually
excited and the police have their
hands full Is it another case of MUIR
der growing out of the dead mans
connection with the wrongs and woes
an secret societies of old Ireland? Or
is 1t a murder growing out OF his
knowledge of, if not participation in
some criminal affaii in Chicago? The
dead body of CrOnin, murdered, is the
only answer as yet given to these
speCulatiOns. The rest is hidden.
Will the police unearth the secret?
Time only can answer this.
THE Times in quoting the New
York World as testimony to the cor
rectness of its estimate of the charac-
ter and attainments of the late Thorn
dyke Rice, says, after contrasting
the generous estimate of the World
with the pessimistic view taken by
the Express, says:
I'm this connection, it is proper to
say to the LIGHT that the world of
letters is broader than the world OF
politics, and that there should be diff
ferences of opinion on the character
and attainments of such man as Mr..
Rice, after he is dead, on account of
his political opinions, is absurd"
From this opinion the LIGHT GER
tainly will not dissent. nor has it ever
dissented from it, or departed from it,
in its estimate of men. In referring
to the disagreements of democratic
judges concerning the place that the
deceased reviewer would hold in the
judgment of the future, the LIGHT
said that 1.-THE real place of Thorn
dyke Rice depends not on newspaper
comment, but upon the impression he
made upon his generation. He did his
life's work we'll and opened the gates
for great thoughts to enter the world
of American students. If he did no
more it was we'll worth doing, and
who dare say he did no more" No
one claimed any differences of opinion
on account of political differences of
opinion. 1t was the irreconclable
differences of opinion from the men,