The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-05-31
cAicAao.s LATEST HORROR.

CHtCAGO'S LATEST HORROR.
The Body of DIR. Croa:n. Who Recently So
Mysteriously Disappeared, Found in q
Rigid Investigation.
CHICAGO, May 23-The dead body of
DR.. P. Il. Cronin, the Irish American who
strangely disappeared from his home in
Chicago two weeks ago, was found last
evening some distance north of the city
in q sewer on Evanston avenue. A bloody
towel was wrapped about the head. The
rest of the body was stark naked. A
Catholic emblem which the doctor always
wore next his skin suspended about his
neck was untouched. On the dead mans
head were doz.n deep cuts, which had
severed the scalp and indented the skull.
1t is the opinion of the police that Cronin
was foully murdered aud by some man
who could not bring himself to disturb a
Catholic trinket.
Much excitement was shown at detective
headquarters when doubt as to the iden.
tity of the body was finally removed by
definite messages from Lakeview. 1t
was evident from the expressions of the
officials that one Of the first objects
Of the police would be to have
number of suspicious assertions ex-
plained-assertions made by supposed
friends of Cronin. Lieutenant Elliott will
have these people at the inquest and de.
mand an explanation full and complete.
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 disap-
pearance.
Wholly accidental circumstances
brought the corpse to light. A gang Of
laborers in the employ of the Lakeview
suburban government had been cleaning
the bitches along Evanston avenue during
the week. Yesterday Foreman Henry
Roesche and two men were working north
of the east side of Evanston avenue
toward Fifty ninth street, when, as they
neared The catch basin at the corner, they
noticed a strong smell of putrefying flesh,
and Roesche pulled off the top of the catch
basin with his spade and uncovered the
body of DR.. Cronin. 1t had apparently
been hastily pitched into the basin, for the
head was underneath and the feet and
legs We're up in the opening.
The place where the corpse was dis.
covered is about 500 yards from the Ar
eyle Park station of the Chicago and Ev.
anston branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul railroad, but two or three
blocks from the lake and nearly a mile
north from the corner of SuIzar street and
Evanston avenue where the mysterious
bloodstaned trunk was found ON the day
after Cronin's disappearance.
Immediately upon taking the body out
of the catch basin Foreman Roesche no.
tilted the Lakeview police station and
summoned a patrol wagon and the body
was placed in the Lakeview morgue,
which occupied the front room in the base
ment under the station.
Telephone messages were sent to the
city police and an hour after the finding
of the body a dozen of Cronin's friends
Were at the station. The three Scanlan
brothers, who have been intimate with
DR.. Cronin, were among the first who ar.
rived. They all but positively identified
the body as that of Cronin upon first sight.
Later it was unqualifiedly identified by I.
7. Conklin, the saloonkeeper with whom
Cronin lived, and by James Boland and
Patrick McCarty.
During the evening DR.. j. R. Brandt
president of the Cook County hospital
staff, who was an acquaintance of Gro.
MINIS, carefully examined the body and
positively identified it as that of the miss
ing man.
DR.. Brandts examination showed that
upon the head were the following cuts and
bruises: Over the left temple, a cut four
inches long through the scalp and into !
the skull; over the left par fetal bone, |
cut one and one-half inches long which |
marked the skull; also a cut one and a |
half inches long over the frontal bone at |
the junction of the left parietal, a cut |
three inches long.
Among many others the dentist who
last worked on Cronin's teeth reached the
station late in the evening and positively
identified the body, as did the man who |
for years had been Cronin's tailor.
Shortly after the body had been re-
moved to the police station the street was
damned with vehicles and scores of peo.
pie were crowdinG for admission to the
bs sement where lay the doctors remains.
Officers were stationed on the stairway at
the basem mt door, and were once or twice
obliged 10 use their clubs i'm forcing the
crowds back. The tumult continued far
into the night
Long bsfore midnight at least forty men
" no had known Cronin had identified the
body. The suburban police will keep the
body and the towel at Lakeview until the
coroner orders otherwise.
The man Woodruff. or Black, who, after
MS arrest a fortnight ago confessed to
having helped carry off trunk contain
ng u corpse of a woman from a barn i'm
he city the night of Cronin's disappear.
lnce, was interviewed last night in Jail He
manifested no surprise or discomposure
when told that the body of DIR. Cronin
rad been found north of where the trunk
vas discovered. but while he apparently
alked freely about the matter he seemed
,areful not to 60 outside the story he had
told. He repeatedly said that
f he had not been Locked up in Jail he
,ould and would have cleared up the
runk mystery before this time. =
Alexander Sullivan. ex.president of the
IRISH National League, was horror.
tricken when told of the discovery of
Dr.. Cronin's body. He said he was at a
oss to know what to say, further than
hat he was dumbfounded. as he has be-
ieved all along that DR.. Cronin would
urn up all right in course of time. He
las no theories whatever to advance as to
Father Hynes.
PIERCE CITY, No., May 23.-Last even
ng Father Hynes was standing in the
rounds surrounding St Patrick's parish
hurch in conversation with gentleman
vhen John Lnnan, who caused the ar
est of the priest last fall. happened to
Ass and began abusing him on account
f the celebrated graveyard case, which
Tas dismissed in the Circuit Court
iynes requested him to move on, but he
his abuse and Hynes retreated
o the church Quite a crowd was gather
1g and but for the timely appearance OF
be police and he arrest of Linnan serious
rouble would have occurred
Threatened Mining Troubles.