The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-05-25
CRONIN WAS KILLED.

The Body OF the Missing Chicago Irish
.Agitator Found in q Sewer in Subur.
ban Town-Although Badly Mangled
and Decomposed. Friends Readily 1den.
tlfy the Remains-No Traces Of the Muir.
derer Discovered Theories las to the
Cause of the Crime Are Plentiful.
CHICAGO, May 23-The body of DR.. p. n.
Cronin, the Irish agitator who disappeared
from his home two weeks ago, was found
Wednesday afternoon at 5 O'clock In q
catch basin on Evanston avenue. towel
was wrapped about the head, but
the rest of the body was stark
naked. The Catholic charm called
the "Agnus DEL" which tn 9 doctor
always wore next his skin, suspended about
his neck, was untouched On the head
were the marks left by dozen deep cuts
which have severed the scalp and indented
the skull. It is the opinion of the police
that CrOnin was foully murdered, and by
some man who could not bring himself to
disturb Catholic charm
A gang of laborers in the employ of the
Lake View city government have been
cleaning the bitches along Evanston av-
enue during the week. Wednesday Fore
man Henry Roesch and two men were
working north on the east side of Evanston
avenue, towards Fifty ninth street
AS they neared the catch-basin at
the corner they noticed strong
smell of purifying flesh, and Roesche
pried off the top of the catch basin with his
spade and uncovered the body of DR..
Cronin 1t had apparently been thrown
into the basin, for the head was down and
the feet and legs were in the sewer OPEN
ing.
The corner of Fifty-ninth street and
Evanston avenue is about 3OO yards from
the. Argyle Park station on the Chicago &
Evanston branch Of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul railroad. 1t is but two or
three blocks from the lake and
about nine-tenths of mile north from
the corner of Sulzer street and Evans
ton avenue, where the empty trunk
was found on the day after Cronin
disappeared. There are four catch basins
at the intersections of the street. and the
body was found in the one on tie southeast
corner. It seems altogether remarkable
that it was not sooner discovered for the
Lake View police started out to search all
the catch basins in the city the week after
the blood-stained 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
out in the Lake View morgue, which occu-
pies the front III the basement under the
station. Telephone messages were sent to
she city police, and an hour after the
finding of the body dozen of Cronin's
friends were at the station
John E. Seanlan, Mortimer Seaman and
John +. Seaman were amcSlg the first who
arrived. They identified the body as that
OF Cronin upon first sight Later it was
more positively identified by L. L. Conklin,
the saloon keeper with whom Cronin lived
and by James Boland and Patrick McGary.
DR.. Lewis, the dentist who last worked
on Cronins teeth, reached the station late
In the evening and also positively identified
the body, as did A. G. O'Keefe, who for
many years was Cronin's tailor Mr..
Scanlan intended at first to send for Mrs.
Conklin, but later it was thought I'M
necessary.
In the evening DR.: J. R. Brandt president
OF the Cook County Hospital staff, carefully
examined the body and positively identi-
ned it as that of Cronin. He discovered
upon the head the following cuts and
bruises: Over the left temple, cut four
inches long, through the scalp and into
the skull; over the left parietal
bone, cut one and half inches long, which
%~~So
half inches long over the frontal bone; at
the junction of the left parietaI; cut
three inches long through the scalp and
marking the ocipital bone; another two
inches long, also marking the ocipital
bone; large bruise back of the
forehead on the right parietal bone and
near it. two cuts each an inch long; bruises
on the left leg and severe commissions ap-
parently made by a. bludgeon on the
forehead. The doctor said that the
blows must have been made by some
sharp instrument, perhaps an ice-pick
He said it the instrument had not been
sharp the skull would have been fractured
whereas it was only lndented, or marked
by the blows. DR.. Brandt examined the
hair found in the trunk on Evanston ave-
nue.. and stated last night that it was DR..
CrOnin's hair
John +. Scanlan was led to give his feel
1ngs on the case and the search which had
been made by the police for the body of
the missing doctor. He hooted the idea
that any sane man could ever have thought
that Cronin had run away. His first remark
was meant to connect the name of the ice
man Sullivan in some way with the doctors
removal
What iceman in Chicago" he exclaimed,
would ever have made such contract with
doctor? What was the necessity for any
such contract? What under heaven caused
Sullivan to go out of his way and make that
contract with Cronin to come at any time
and attend to his men? Did that look as
though he had run away"
MIR. Scanlan said he expected to see the
perpetrators of the deed brought to Justice
Cronin's friends and fellow workers will
spare no money or pains to bring about such
a result and will not stop until the insti-
gators, as we'll as the perpetrators of the
crime, are discovered
The police are carefully watching the
house OF Sullivan, the proprie tor of the ice
house in Lake View, apparently with the
intention OF arresting him. He had not
returned home at late hour last night A
report that he had already been arrested
could not be verified
Fifteen thousand copies OF the Celto-
American, the weekly paper of which DR..
Cronin was the editor, and which had not
been issued since his absence, containing
q full history of the physicians life and
the part he had taken in disclosing GER
tain evidence concerning alleged mis-
appropriation of Irish relief funds
were to have been mailed to the prominent
Irish voters Of the city next Monday, The
object OF this was to stir up the Irish peo-
pie to realization of their duty, and to
urge on the work of exposing certain
frauds, which work the doctor had been
engaged in and which, it is still Thought.
had much to do with his being removed y
This sudden turning up of his body is
thought by the police to be the first step in
unearthing as mysterious and great q crime
as ever went down in the police annals OF
Chicago. twill be their first object to have q
number OF suspicious assertions explained:
assertions made by supposed friends Of
the murdered man. Lieutenant Elliott will
have these people at the inquest and de-