Telegram-herald., 1889-10-26

S4loo lisa When rs 1OC sor sXzulrea
Hatness for 4dGlsslon u tae Catholic
CsdsF 81 f0rssters. he LAST saW o..
troniA Sllse lee moments before the
aoetoE left - home IL the buggy arawn
~ the y lite horse. lie sas tie taody
. tAe uCrg1e - Lake NleN ana reoog-
nlzed id IS d Cronius he identified il
~ the general appearances, the lair znl
tie teeth.
David 4. Ahern. tailor AZ Z 20 Wash
ington street kad known Or Cronin for
some years 4nd frequently saW HIN
daily lie recognized The body al the
moEgas b Ihs imperial o. LIS Cha ana
the shape Of hls forehead.
George tiniger, one Of the men who
discovered The body ia the catch basin,
testified that tAe body ~as carefully re-
moved frou lis CHASTITY receptacle II
las doubled up, with head down and feet
up In the basin. lie also told how the
men passed . folded blanket through the
grating under aud around n e body wath
the aid Of piece o. fence-plank and
e-handle, and after two attempts drew
IL 20 the TOP.
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70 make the point that the body, after
being eighteen days IN the sewer and
being roughly handled as II was falling
back once from the hand-grasp of the
police and again from the leash Of the
blanket, could not be IN such state OF
preservation as 10 be easily identified.
The witness was Unshaken, however, on
erOss-eNaminatlOn.
There was some anticipatory excite
ment when Patrick McGarry was called.
Mr. McGarry's well-known antipaihy 10
the triangle and his intense friendship
for DR.. Cronin has made him prom
inent figure in this case. Mr.. McGarry
replied 10 Mr. lngham that be had
known DR.. Cronin about four and one
half years, and for the last year had met
the doctor at least three times a week.
lie identified the body at the morgue
by its general appearance.
DIR. c. W. Lewis. Or. Cronin's dentist.
testified that he had known DR.. Cronin
some six years; was his dentist, and had
frequently examined the doctors mouth.
The doctors lower jaw was pc
culiar from the fact that in some
extraction of teeth a portion OF
the bony process of the jaw was broken
away, leaving one side of the jaw
lower than the other. DR.. Lewis had
filled the right upper bicuspid tooth for
the doctor with red rubber and knew its
popularity. Dr.. Lewis said he had
made two sets of ia Sc teeth for DIR.
Cronin. Not long before his death
DR.. Cronin had applied to the wit
ness for a new set OF teeth. To this end
the dentist had prepared plaster cast
of the patients mouth.
May "a Lewis went TO Carroll's under
taking establishment, on Chicago ave-
nue., and there saw a dead body,
which he identified as DR.. Cronins.
The plaster cast was a perfect
, reproduction of the corpse's mouth
with all its peculiarities. He also found
the red rubber-filled tooth. The dentist
missed peculiar plato which he had
inserted N the last set of teeth he made
for the doctor. 1t was not in the dead
mans mouth. DR.. Lewis was then
shown a small plate with four teeth at
tached to it, one being broken. He
identified it as plate he had made for
DR.. Cronin.
Assistant County Physician Egbert
identified the plato and teeth as the
same he had taken from the body Al the
Lake View morgue. DR.. Egbert testified
that the plate had remained in the safe
Of the county physician since he cook it
from the corpse. Mr.. Mills OffcSed the
plate and teeth in evidence, and they
were admitted by the court over Mr. For
rests objection.
A movement has been set on foot, the
! obiectof which is to clear the name of
DR.. P. II. Cronin forever from the asper-
sion put upon it by his enemies in the
I shape OF charge that he was British
! SPY. This movement had its inception in
( the mind ofPW Dunno, who many weeks
! ago conceived the idea of asking from
/ Sir Charles Russell a statement denying
| that DR.. Cronin's name was one of the
/ four handed in by the spy lie Caron as
/ his confederates in betraying the Irish
physical force movement in this country.
: Mr. Dunno wrote to Matt Harris, one of
the founders of the Land League, a
/ Parliamentary representative from Gal
way, and one of the directors of the ply
! sical force organization in the old coun-
try, TO use his influence with Mr.. Parnell
{ in the direction indicated. The names
of the spies wero only revealed
to Sir Charles Russell and Attorney
1 General Webster, but il was believed
+ possible that Mr. Parnell might have
: been taken into the formers confidence.
/ II was further urged that there could
be no possible objection TO Sir
Charles Russell making the mega
3 tive statement. and that in saying Gro
min was not one Of the spies, he would
in no way betrsy the identity OF
those who were. This communication
was not productive Of any results. but
there has been good deal Of corre-
spondence about the matter since, and
it is now understood that a big
petition signed by representative
Irish-American Catholics - priests
and lavmen-is being prepared 10 be
forwarded 70 Mr.. Parnell, Sir Charles
Russell and Mr.. Asquith, asking them
If DIR. Croniu's name was not among the
four. 70 do his memory the simple JUS
tice Of saying so.
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