Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-05-30
! oRoNrs,s BODY rouNp.
He Was Murdered and HIS Naked
CORPSE Thrown into a sewer.


from his home recently, was found last
evening some distance north Of the city
In sewer on Evanston avenue. A bloody
towel was wrapped about the head. The
rest Of the body was atRrk naked. A
Catholic emblem which the doctor
always wore next his skin, and suspended
about his neck, was untouched. On the
dead mans head were dozen deep outs
which had severed the scalp and indented
the skull. 1t Is the opinion Of the police
that Oronin was foully murdered, snd by
3 person who could not bring himself to
disturb Catholic emblem.
Much excitement was shown 81 detec-
tive headquarters when doubt rs to the
identity OF the body was finally removed.
II was evident from the expressions OF
the officials that one of the first objects
Of the police will be to have a number of
suspicious assertions explained made by
supposed friends OF Oronin. Lieutenant
Elicit will have these people ut the in
quest and demand an explanation full and
complete. Lieutenant Elliott said; 1.-THE
detectives claim that they have been
handicapped from the start by lack of
assistance from those who claimed to
know all concerning the doctors dissp-
pearance. l will have this information
now or there will be q number Of promi-
nent Rrrests.n
Wholly accidental circumstances
brought the corpse TO light. A gang Of
laborers in the employ of the Lake View
suburban government have been clean
ing the bitches along Evanston avenue
during the week. Yesterday Foreman
Roesch and two men were working north
on the east side OF Evanston avenue
towards Fitty-ainth street. As they
neared the catch basin at the corner they
noticed q strong smell Of purifying fesh,
and R0esch pred of the top of the catch
basin and uncovered the body of DR..
Oronip. 1t had apparently been hastily
pitched into shs basin, for the head was
underneath and The feet and legs were up
in the opening.
The place where the corpse was dis.
covered is about 300 yards from the
Argyle Park station of the Chicago &
Evanston branch OF the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul road. It is but two or
three blocks from the lake and nearly a
mile north from the corner Of Sulzsr
street and Eveneton avenue, where the
mysterious blood-steined trunk, empty,
was found the day after Oronin's dlsap-
pearence. There are four catch basins at
the interruptions Of the street, and the
body was in the one on the southeast
corner. Il seems altogether remarkable
that IL was not sooner discovered. for the
Lake View police started out to search
all the catch basins ir the big suburb the
week after the trunk was found.
immediately upon taking the body out
OF the basin Foreman Roesch notified the
Lake View police station and summoned
the patrol wagon. The body was
stretched ont in the Lake View morgue,
which9 occupies the front room in the
basement under the station. Telephone
messages were sent to the city police,
and an hour after the finding Of the body
dozen of Cronin's friends were ct the
station.
During the evening DIR. j, Il. Brandt,
President Of the Cook Comfy Hospital
staff, who was an acquaintance OF Orc.
MINIS, carefully examined the body and
positively identified it as that of the miss.
ing man. nr. Brandt's examination
showed upon the head the following cuts
and bruises: Over the left temple O cut
four inches long, through the scslp and
into the skull; over the left parietal bone
cut 1ne e1d 4 tst inches long, SaiaE
also nBIlye5 the sklll Rts0 eas aas ard
: h.s .ae.:ss long over the frontal lone
at the junction of the left parietal, cut
three inches long. Among many others
the dentist who last worked on Cronin':
teeth reached the station late in the even
ing and positively identified the body, al
did the man who for years had beer
Orunin's tailor.
.yraak ~ kbrk rnaa aa-anI -. AZ,
suburb by the finding Of the corpse
Shortly after the body had been removed
to the police station the street In from
was damned with vehicles and scores o
people were crowding for admission (,
the basement where lay the DOCTORS re
maina. Officers were stationed on tn
stairway and at the basement door, am
were once or twice obliged to use club
in forcing the crowds back. The tumul
continued far into the night. Lon
before midnight at least 40 men who hs
known Oronin had identified the body
The police will keep the body and tn
towel at Lake View until the corone
orders otherwise.
The man Woodruff, or Black, who attt
arrest fortnight ago confessed to hal
ing helped carry of trunk containing
CORPSE, that Of woman, he claimed, frol
q barn in the city the night Of Cronin
disappearance, was interviewed last nigt
in Jail. He manifested no surprise Z
disconposure whom told that the body {
Oronin hsd been found north Of wheE
the trunk WG5 discovered. But whils h
apparently talked freely about the ma
ter he scented careful not TO 30 outsid
the story he had originally told. He ?,
peatedly said that If he had not bee
locked up in jail he could and woul
have cleared up the trunk mystery betoi
this time.
CHICAGO, May 23.-Ir waa reported {
good authority early this morning that 4
arrest had b9sn msd9 OF confederate
Woodruff WHO Is believed TO have been ID
pltcafed il the murier u Dc, Cronin. n
police authorities we're extremely retioe
about the matter, and would neither gflir
nor contradict the rumof, Il was al
stated nut another GrEest will ba made I
day
Alexander Sullivan, cx president OF i
Irish National LenGue Of America, =
horror-stricken when informed lagt mtg
OF the finding OF Br. Gronin's body. VIII
asked What he mad to say 10 regard to I
startling discovery Mr.. sullivan reptile
. am ~ ip5e 20 know what to say. | d
Mortified, ddnbfounied, for I have /
lisVed all along hat DR.. Gronin would til
up all right In euursf Of time"
Continuing, Mr.. Sullivan said no had
theories 10 advance "a TO the ptobat
cause Of the DOCTORS murder. Ha did /
thiuk that the doctors promised fEpOsJ
of alleged oto1kHlness 10 fhsn nation
organizations ngd 'slythlnc 10 do With
murder. Mr., sullivan ID teUIy 10 furl
questions, SAID he II asei With
utmost contempt the siAtem M 4