The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-05-25

Evanston avenue, 1S aDOuC 5UU yarQS
from the Argyle Park station of the
Chicago & Evanston branch OF the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad.
It is but two or three blocks from the
lake, and nearly mile north from the
corner Of Su|Zer street and Evanston
avenue, where the mysterious block.
stained trunk, empty. was found on the
day after Cronin's disappearance. There
are four catcnbasins in the intersec G.
tions of the street, and the body was in
the one on the southeast corner. It
seems
ALTOGETHER REMARKABLE
that it was not sooner discovered, for
the Lakeyiew police started out to
search all the catchbasins in the big
suburb the week after the trunk was
found. AID. Maxwell, OF the LakeyieW
council, who was one of the searchers,
said tonight: I'VE started out two
days after Cronin's disappearance to
search every catchbasin along Evanston
avenue. There were fifteen men under
Capt. Wing and half dozen yolun-
teers engaged in the hunt for the body.
We looked first through all the catch
basins in the neighborhood of Sulzer
street and Evanston avenue, where the
trunk was found, and east and west
from that corner, Then we looked
ihrougEl the basins north and south
along Evanston avenue, we finally came
to the conclusion that the trunk had
been left for blind and that in all
likelihood the body had been hidden
some distance away. We then went to
Granceland, and looked in the basins
for half q mile up and down the avenue
and along the cross streets. ai1d worked
for five CT six days before giving up the
search. BY mere bad luck we stopped
two blocks north of Fifty-llnth street,
and consequently missed the catchbasin
where he body was hid" Immediately
upon taking the BODY out OF the basin
Foreman Roesch notified the Lakeview
police station, and summoned the pa
Erol wagon. The body was stretched
out
IN THE LAKEYIEW MORaUE,
which occupies the front room IN the
basement under the station. Telephone
messages were sent to the city police,
and an hour after the finding ct the
body q dozen of Cronin's friends We're
at tile station. The three Seaman
brothers, who have been intimate with
DR.. Cronin, We're among the first who
arrived. They ali identified the body
as that OF Cronin upon first sight. La
ter it was unqualihedlY identified by T.
T. Conklin, the saloon keeper with
whom Cronin llv5d, and by James 30
land and Patrick McCary. During the
evening Dr. J. r. Brandt, president Of
the Cook county hospital staff, who
was an acquaintance Of Cronin, care
fully examined the body and positively
it as thatof the missing man.
d.. Brandt's examination showed upon
the head the following cuts ana bruises:
Over the left temple a cut four inches
long, through tile scalp and into the
skull; over the left psrietal bone cut
one and q half inches long, which also
marked the skull; also cut one and a
half inches long oyer the frontal bone
at the junction Of thu left parietal,
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
has been GrOnin's tailor.
A GREAT HUBBUB
was caused in the suburb by the finding
Of the corpse. Shortly after the body
had been removed to the police station
the street in front was damned with
vehicles, and scores Of people we're
for admission to the base
ment, where lay the DOCTORS remains.
Officers were stationed on the stairway
and at the basement door, and were
once or twice obliged to use their clubs
IN forcing the crowds back. The tu-
multi continued far into the night.
Long before midnight at least forty
nen who had known Cronin had iden-
lifted the body. The suburban police
Will keep the body and towel at Lake
View until the coroner orders other
wise. The man Woodruff or Black,
who after arrest a fortnight ago con-
'essed to having helped carry Off a |
woman he claimed, from q barn in the
city the night Of Cronin's disappear
ance, was interviewed to- night in Jail.
He manifested no surprise or discom-
posure when told that the body of DR..
Cronin had been found north Of where
the trunk was discovered. But while
he apparently talked freely about the
matter, he seemed careful not to go
outside of che story he had originally
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