Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-30
cHcAoo.s latest HORROR.

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The Bedy of DR.. Cronin, who Recently So
Sewer-A Foul Murder That Calls For q
Rigid Investigation.
CHICAGO, May 22-The dead body of
DR.. p. b. 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 dozen deep cuts, which had
severed the scalp and indented the skull
It is the opinion of the police that Cronin
was foully murdered aud by some man
who could not bring himself to disturb .
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. It
was evident from the expressions OF the
officials that one Of the first objects
of the police would be to have
a 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 a 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
Iaborers 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-ni ninth street, when, as they
neared the catch basin at the corner, they
noticed 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 were up in the opening.
The place where the corpse was dis.
covered is about 800 yards from the Ar
gyle Park station of the Chicago and Ev-
anston branch Of the Chicago Milwaukee
& st. Paul railroad, but two or three
north from the corner of Sulzsr street and
Evanston avenue. where the mysterious
bloodstained trunk was found on the day
after Cronin's disappearance.
Immediately upon taking the body out
of the catch basin Foreman Roesche no.
titled the Lakeview police stations 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 polics 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 T.
T. 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
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, cut four
inches long through the scalp and into
the skull; over the left par fetal bone, a
cut one and one-half inches long which
marked the skull; also cut one and a
the junction of the 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 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-
Pile were crowding for admission to the
basement, where lay the doctors remains.
Officers were stationed ON the stairway at
the basement door, and were once or twice
obliged to use their clubs in forcing the
crowds back. The tumult continued far
into the night.
Long before midnight at least forty men
who 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
his arrest a fortnight ago confessed to
having helped carry off a trunk contain
| ing a corpse of a woman from a barn in
| the city the night of Cronin's disappear
ance, was interviewed last night in Jail. He
manifested no surprise or discomposure
| when told that the body of DR.. Cronin
| had been found north of where the trunk
| was discovered but while he apparently
TAXED freely ABOUT Cn0 m6CC0r ne seemed
careful not to go outside 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
trunk mystery before this time.
| Alexander Sullivan, ex-president of the
Irish National League, was horror.
stricken when told of the discovery OF
DR.. Cronin's body. He said he was at q
loss to know what to say. further than
that he was dumbfounded. as he has be-
lieved all along that DR.. Cronin would
| turn up all right in course of time He
has no theories whatever to advance as to
|
| Father Hynes.
| PIERCE CITY, No., May 23.-Last even
ing Father Hynes was standing in the
grounds surrounding st. Patrick's parish
church in conversation with a gentleman
when John Linnan, who caused the ar.
rest of the priest last fall. happened te
pass and began abusing him on account
of the celebrated graveyard case, which
was dismissed in the Circuit Court
/ Hynes requested him to move on, but hs
con tinued his abuse and Hynes reiterated
to the church Quite a crowd was gather
ing and but for the timely appearance o.
the police and he arrest of Linnan seriou!
| trouble would have occurred.
Threatened Mining Troubles.
BRAIDwooD, Iii, May 22-Threats OF