, 1889-05-23
CRONlN'S CORPSE.
The Body of the Kissing Doctor
Found in a Catch Basin.
He Was Foully Murdered, But
by Whom is Unknown
The Disoiosu res OF ltOtu nness and VII.
lHiny In the Chicago Asylum Continue
-Boodleris,n 10 the Cause.

CHICAGO, May 22-rhe dead body Of
DR. Uronin, the Irish mprican who
strangely sappedred from his home in
Chicago two weeks ago, was found this
evening some distance north OF the city in
q sewer on Evanston avenue. bloody
towel was wrapped about the head but the
body was stark naked. A Catholic em-
bieui which the doctor ALWAYS wore next
to his skin suspended about his neck Was
untouched. In the head we're dozen
cuts which had severed the scalp and IN
denteo the skull 1t is tn. op,uion of the
police that Cronin was fJully murdered.
Much excitement was sbos n ut the detec.
tive headquarters when all doubt as to the
IDENTITY OF THE BODY
was finally removed by IL drfulte message
from Lakeview 1t WAS evident from tx.
press,ons OF the olice that one OF their
first objects will be to have explained the
assertions made by supposed friends of
Cronin. Lieutenant Elliott. chief OF de.
tectives, Will have these people at the In
quest and demand an explanation iull and
complete The detectives claim they have
been handicapped from the start by II lack
OF assistance from those who claimed to
know all concerning the doctors disap-
pearancs. IL will have this Information
now" said Lieutenant Elliott, 'or there
will be nuDber OF prompt arrests"
Wholly accidental circu mstancrs brought
the cor pse TO light. A Ranv OF laborers
who we're cleaning bitches along Evansto0
avenue noticing near the corner OF Evano-
ton avenue and Eity ninth street strong
smell OF putrid flesh. one OF the men pried
of the cover of the catch basin al the COR.
ner and there discovered the corpse. IL
bad apparently heen hastily
PITCHED INTO THE BASIN
as the head was underneath and the legs
and feet in the opening. This basin IL To-
Gated nearly mile from were the mys.
terious bloOdstainc trunk WAS found on
the day after Crcnin's Disappearance. 10
seems altogether remarkable that 1t was
not sooner dis oVerrd for the Lakeview
police started out to search ell the catch
basins in that suburb week after the
trunk was found, One Of the srarch-rs
said to night they had missed the basin
where the body WAS found.
The body was immediately taken TO the
Lak-view morpue and within an hour "a
dozen OF Cro in 8 friends were in the sta.
tion They were quite sure 1t was that OF
the missing doctor, and their opinion was
verified later by that OF CoDklin, with
whom Cronin lived, aud also 10y others
DIR. Brandt, who examined the body, said
the blows on the head must have been
INFLICTED BY SHARP INSTRUMENT.
There would seem to be no possibility OF
q doubt as to the identi6 alton of the
body. Among many others who expressed
q positive opinion IN regard TO it WAS n
dentist who recently worked on CroDin y
teeth, and also the man Who for years had
been Cronin's tailor. IL is thought that
Cronin's body was carried in the myste-
rious blood stained trunk. There
was cotton found about the feet and under
the chin of the corpse OF the
same quality IA that found In the trunk,
and threads OF cloth found in the cotton in
the trnnk correspoudrd in appearance
with the threads OF the towel wrapped
about Cronin's head. The body was much
swollen and in an advanced stage OF de.
composition owing to its long stay under
water in the catch ba,iD.
The man Woodruff or Black, who after
arrest confessed to having helped
CARRY OFF THE TRUNK,
containing a corpse which he claimed was
that or "A woman. from barn to the city
y right upon Cropin's disappearance, was
interviewed tonight in jail. He mann
tested no surprise when told OF the dis
covery, but while talking freely about the
matter he seems careful not to 90 outside
of the story he had originally told. H'
repeatedly said ii be had not been locked
10 10 Jail he could and would have cleared
up the mystery before this time.