The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-23
CRONIN'S DEAD BODY.
1t was Found in a Sewer Catch
Basin in Chicago.
SLEEP MYDARLING BABE, SLEEP.
The Manner in Which Joe McAulifFe Said it to
Tom Lees-TwO Young Women
Fight with Knives.

CHICAGO, May 22,-Dr. Cronin, the Irish
American who strangely disappeared from
his home in Chicago two weeks ago, wa.
found this evening some distance north o.
the city in sewer on Evanston avenue
A bloody towel was wrapped about the
head, but the body was stark naked.
Catholic emblem, which the doctor always
wore next to his skin suspended about his
neck, was untouched. On his head were &
dozen cuts, which had severed the scalI
and indented the skull. 1t is the opinion
of the police that Cronin was foully mus
dered. Much excitement was shown al
detective headquarters when all doubt as
to the identity of the body was finally
removed by definite messages from Lake
view. 1t was evident from the expressions
of the police that one of their first objects
will be to have explained the assertions
made by the supposed friends of Cronin.
| Lieutenant Elliott, chief of the detectives
will have these people at the inquest and
demand an explanation, full and complete.
The detectives claim that they have been
handicapped from the start by lack of as
| SiStance from those who claimed to know
all concerning the DOCTORS disappearance.
II will have this information now" said
| Lieutenant Elliott, ''Or there will be num-
Der of prompt arrests
1t was wholly an accidental circumstance
that brought the corpse to light. A gang
OF labOrers who were cleaning the bitches
along Evanston avenue, noticing near the
corner of Evanston avenue and Eifty-ninth
street strong smell of putrid flesh, one of
the men pried off the cover of the catch
basin at the corner, and there discovered
the corpse. 1t had apparently been hastily
pitched into the basin, as the head
was underneath and the feet and legs
in the opening. This basin is located
nearly mile from where the mysterious
blood-stained trunk was found on the day
after Cronin's disappearance. 1t seems
altogether remarkable that it was not
sooner discovered for the Lakeview police
started out to search all the catch basins
in that suburb the week after the trunk
was found. One of the searchers said to-
night they had missed the basin where the
body was hid. The body was Immediately
taken to the LakevieW mOrgue and within
an hour a dozen of Cronin's friends were
at the station. They were quite sure it
was that of the missing doctor and their
opinion was verified later by that
of COnklin, with whom Cronin lived, and
also by others. DR.. Brand, who examined
the body, said the blows on the head must
have been inflicted with some sharp instru
ment.
There would seem to be no possibility of
doubt as to the Identification of the body.
Among many others who expressed posi-
tive opinion in regard to it was the dentist
who recently worked on Cronin's teeth,
and also man who for years had been
Cronin's tailor.
1t is thought that Cronin's body was car
RED in the mysterious blood stained trunk
There was cotton found about the feet and
under the chin of the corpse of the same
A.. A., / ~.
threads of cloth found in the cotton in the
trunk correspond in appearance with the
threads of the towel wrapped about
Cronin's head The body was much
swelled and in an advanced state of decom
position, owing to It's long stay under water
in the catch basin. The man Woodruff, or
Black, who after his arrest confessed to
having helped carry off a trunk containing
corpse which he claimed was that of a
woman from barn in this city the night
of CrOnin's disappearance, was interviewed
tonight in Jail. He manifested no surprise
when told of the discovery, but while talk
ing freely about the matter, he seems care
full not to go outside of the story he had
originally told. He repeatedly said that if
he had not been locked up in Jail he could
and would have cleared up the mystery be
fore this time.
Alexander Sullivan, eX-president of the
lrlSn national league, was -QOrrOr stricken
tonight when told of the discovery of DIR.
Cronin's body. He said he was at loss to
know what to say further than that he was
dumfounded, as he had believed all along
that Dr. Cronin would turn up all right in |
the course of time. He had no
theories to advance as to the prob |
able cause of the Doctors murder. |
In reference to the statement made by |
some of Cronin's friends at the time of the |
latter's disappearance that he (Sullivan) |
knew more about the matter than he cared |
to tell, Mr. Sullivan said that he had |
treated that report with contempt at the |
time. He added he was Mortified to hear |
of the murder and will do everything in |
his power to place the guilt where it be-
longs.
Shortly after the news of the finding of |
the body had been received, reporter |
called on Mrs. Conklin at her home where !
DR.. Cronin resided. When informed of the |
finding of the body she said that she was |
not surprised. She had always said he was
murdered.
"You will undoubtedly give the police the |
benefit of your knowledge of DIR. Cronin's |
enemies to aid in finding the DOCTORS muir
derer!'
81 don't know that willn said she.
'sThey seem to know so much that they
won't appreciate what 1 tell them" and she
shut the door.
Conklin would not talk to the reporter.