The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-02

Three or four witnesses for the prosecution
were then examined, but their testimony was
uninteresting except so far as to identify the
dead body found in the catch-basn US that of DR..
Cronn.
The attorneys assisting the States Attorney
in the prosecution OF the case are Ingham,
Mills and Hynes
CHICAGO, Oct. a5-,rhe taking of evidence In
the Cronin case was resumed in the criminal
court this morning. The prosecution continued
the presentation of witnesses whose only testi-
mony was as to the Identification of the body
found in the catch-basin as that of DR.. Cronin.
The witnesses called for the purpose of fden-
tifying the body were: Nicholas Walienborn,
wine and liquor merchant and friend OF the
dead doctor; II. II. Conlln the man in whose
family Cronn had lived for ten or twelve years;
John +. scanlan, member otthe Clan-na-G Gael,
and an intimate friend and partisan OF DR..
Cronin; Frank Seaman, brother of John F.,
and David p. Ahren. merchant tailor who made
the doctors clothes. The identification was
very perfect and very positive.
The next matter up was the finding OF tho
body in the catch basin. The two sewer clean
ers who discovered the body and notified the
police of the fact, and the policemen who were
sent and assisted in removing the body, were
sworn as to this point and described the pro-
ceeding.
Patrick McGarry, boiler maker and q friend
of DIR. Cronin. identified the body taken from
the catch basin as that of the dead physician.
DIR. II. w. Lewis, dentist who has operated
professionally on DIR. Cronin's mouth, also iden-
titled the body. He described the pecularities
of DR.. Cronins mouth, the number of missing
teeth, the form of the jaw, etc. identified
plate with false teeth attached as one he had
made for DIR. Cronin and said that a cast of the
mouth he had made fitted that of the corpse.
Dr. Egbert was OF the opinion that death had
occurred through excessive loss of blood, but
there was no certainty of it. he said.
N.T .l.a.t II Do ,t,r DnNf rnr aCf 0f
DR.. Egbert, assisted at the post-mortem, testi-
fed that in his opinion death did not result
from blood-lettng, but from concussion of the
brain. The latter organ. however, was too de-
composed to afford any information.
The last witness OF the day was the under
taker who removed the body after the post
mortem, and who testified that it remained in
his charge until buried.
The trunk in which DR.. Cronins body
was carried from the Carlson cottage
to the Lakevlew catch basin was
brought from the Central Station
this morning to the States Attorneys office and
carefully locked up in the vault, there TO be
kept until needed in the trial.
large and curious crowd gathered quickly
to see the CORY evidence of a great crime as it
was taken by guard of officers from the patrol
wagon to the vault.
If the Cronin jury is unduly influenced it will
not be because the State does not take every
possible precaution against it. Not only are
the baliffs as severe in their watch OF the
Jurors II they were so many criminals and
liable to break away and run at the least pos.
siple chance, but there are scores of detectives
that guard the sidewalks between the CONNER
cial Hotel where the jury stop, and the Grim
inal court building, whenever the Jury is taken
to or from the building.