The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-23
DR.. CR0NIN IS A CORPSE.
HIS BODY FOUND MANHOLE
OF A SEWER IN CHICAGO.

| Or SEW hR IN CHICAGO.
/ Death Evidently Produced By Bows
on the Head With en- AKA Towel
! Around the Head and q atholc
Emoism Suspended From the Neck
the Only Articles on the Body-1heo-
ries OF the Police.
CHICAGO May 22.-The dead body of
| DR.. T. H. Cronin, who strangely disap-
| peared from his home recently, was found
| tnls eve ing some distance north ot the city
In a sewer on Evanston avenue a bloody
towsl was wrapped about the head. The
rest OF tue body was stark naked A
| Catholic embem which the doctor always
| wore next to his skin, suspended a out his
| neck, vas untouched. On the dead mans
head we're dozen deep cuts wAic had
severed the scalp and lndented the skull. 1t
is the opinion Of the police that D..
| Cronta was toully murdered, aud
| by some man who could nos bri &
| himself to disturb the Catholic tIink Is,
| Muc excl ement was shown a. detective
| headqu4rOers wael the d)ubt as t. the
! ideltlty Of the body was 4 ally removed
lt was ev.d9 from the EXPRESSIONS OF the
officials tnat one Of the frat j cts of the
| o lice will ue TO have a number Of sus-
picious asser ions explained, asss tions
made by supp sd friends II D.. Crouin.
Lieut.. Elliott will nave these people at the
i1quest and demand al sSplanl i1n, flll
and complete. Lieu. ElhDtt aid: THE
| detec ives claim t rat they nave bee handi-
capped from the start by lack Of a,sI7talcs
| from those who clai ned to knlN ali n
corning the doctors di,appearanc
80 -. n 4
of the boly: II will ave TINS Information
now, or there will be numbsr OF ptomi-
nent arrests.
FOUrN BY ACCIDENT.
Wholly accidental circumstances brought
the c1rp,e to light. A gsAg of lsb,rers IN
| J4e enplJy Of Ltkevie~, a su ,urbal gov
ernms t, have been claa ing dtc lss along
Evanston ave lie Gu-i z t g We T,-dav
Foreman K esch and two men were work.
ing o the cas- size Of Evanston avelua to.
wards Fifty-ninth street AS they neared
tle catch basin at the rne they not csd
rong small of purifying flesh, ald
catch basin and uncover the body
Of Dr. Cronin. 1t had apparently
been hastily pitcIe into the bas! d. o tie
uoad was underneath and tn feet and leg,
ere up in the opening. The place wuer
the corpse was isc1ve cd Is aUoul so
yards firm the Argyle PARK station OF the
Cnicago and Evanston br tn"h Of t
G icago, Milwauk g and St. Paul railroad
1t ls tut two or three blocks
| north ON thu cor or Of Suiz.r street and
Evanston avenue where the my>terious
UloJd- stained trunk, emp,y, was tonud ON
| the day after D.. CrouIA's dsa ppoara C.
! There are four .;ch basins at tAe ia3ersec-
| II NJ OF he street, ami the body "asfn he
one the southeast corner. 1t seems
altogether rem rkabl that it was not sooner
| discovered, for the LakeyieN v pol CO started
out sJarch all the case b. ,ins IN the biz
suburb week after the trunk "as found.
DISPOSITION OF THE BODY.
Inms llatel upon king the 90 iy out of
the bisil Fora Aal RJesoA notified the
Lsksvlsw police static a II SUN noled
patrol wagon. The body was stretched out
in the LaKsview IN 'Igus, which occupies
front room in tue base ent unler the sta
zion. Tespho 9 m5osa ses were sent 0 the
CT police, aud IN an nou after tue finding
II the 6oly dozsn OF Dr.
Crouin's friends were the stati IN,
The three Scallo brothers, who hav.
Inc first who arrived. they all bus posi-
lively identified the bod as that OF Croll
upon first sight. Late twas unq lalified
ide Titled bi L. T. Conklin, s4lIonke5psr
wi wLom D. CroAin liv d, aid by James
BoIand AMI Patrct McCart y. Du (
tue svs4ing Dr.. J. Il. B audit,
president Of the Cook county hoipItar
Of DR.. Croni1's, -carefUlly examined the
BODY and positively ldeniid ID it a, tnat f
the missius man. Dr. Brandt's examina-
inns owed that upo the ue Il we're the
70 loving cuJs and brl.ss,: Over ths lei
temple, q cut four inches long, through ths
s.alp aud into the skull; over tLe left
fetal 1t one and a half inches | n,
wnlch also marked the skull; alSj
cut ne anI half iucls
long over tbs frontal bona a.
the junction Of the left parleJal; a cut
three niche, long.
Among ma ~ 1t lars, de1tiss who last
worked IA Dr. Cronin's teeth reached tns
stati llte in the eve ing and positively
ide titled the body. as did nsn wIo for
year mas be Cronia's tailor
LAXEYiEw WILD WITH EXCITEMENT.
A great aub ub was caused IN tue suburb
by the finding II tie corpse Shortly
ftsr the body bad been re-
IN we'd TO the pjlice station
the street in front was ia nmsd With
vehicles and score, OF people were crow ling
the doc .Jr's renal 5. ON 'srs were sra
toned on the stairway and at the bastne +
door, d we're CO or twi 9 obllg9t 10 use
their clubs In forcing tue crowds back Tne
tumllt con ued IA int tho mig I. Long
before miduig It at least forty men VIII had
know DR.. Cronln had identihed he body
The DO ic5 will Keep tie b dy ID towel
at LAX visw until the coroner orders
o.her se.
Woodruff or Black. who after the arrest
Z rtuigut ago, confessed % having helped
carry oI the trunk cJntalniug the corpse,
that Of woman, ue claim d, from
barn IN the clly on ths Eikat t
DR.. Cronins dlslppsaranos. was Ia.
terviewsd tonight tn jan. ho manifested
no surprise or disc5Ap JsIrs wuen told
that the body Of Dr.. Croaiu had baen
found north OK where tie trunk was DIS
cove ed But whie be ap arently talked
freely about b matter, hs ssem d careful
not TO 90 ou SIDE tho 81 r. ns lad Orig
nally tod He repoi.eily slid tuht g.. rs
had not been locked up N jail, ho c)ui aud
would ia e c.eIrsd up tue tru mystery
before this time.
An Empress Shaken Up.
BERLIN, May IA tran c1n ~ ng tho