New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-23
DIR. CRONIN'S BODY FOUND.
LYING IN A SEWER AT CHICAGO.
RECOGNIZED BY MANY WHO HAD KNOWN THE
DOCTOR IN LLFE-HIs FRIENDS NOW
DECLARE THEIR INTENTION TO
IBr TELEGRAPH TO THE ThrBUSS.I


DR.. CrOnin the missing Irish Nationalist that he
was murdered has been verified by the discovery in
u sewer in EyanSton-ave. of q body which tonight
has been identified, 10 seems beyond doubt, as
that Of tho missing man. Now the question is,
who killed him and what was the motive. The
gentlemen who have been active in the search for
the missing man say they will now devote their en-
erges TO hunting down his murderer or murderers,
and that no expense will be spared.
Wholly accidental circumstances brought the
corpse TO light gang OF lDborcrs in the employ
OF the Lake View suburban government have BEEN
cleaning the ditches along Evanston-ave. Today
the foreman, Henry Rocsch, and two men were
working north on the east side of Evanston-ave
As they nearcd the catch basin at the corner they
noticed q strong smell OF putrefying flesh, and
Roesch pred oil the top Of the catch basin with his
spade and uncovered the body Of DR.. Cronin. II
had apparently been hastily pitched into the basin,
for the head WIS underneath and the feet and legs
were up in the opening
The place where the corpse was discovered, Fifty
ninthst. and Evanston-avc, is about three hundred
yards from the Argyle Park Station OF the Chicago
and Evanston branch Of the Chicago Milwaukee
and ST. Paul Railroad. II is only two or three
blocks from the lake, aud nearly mile north from
the corner Of Sulzer-st and Evanston-ave.. where
uh, ",
found on the day after Cronins disappearance
Alderman Maxwell OF the Lake View Council
who was one of the searching committee: said to-
night We started out two days after Cronin's
disappearance TO search every catch basin along
EvanstOn-ave. There were fifteen men under Cap
tain Wing aud q half dozen volunteers engaged
in the hunt for the body. We looked first through
oil the catch basins in the nclghbOrhOOd Of
Sulzer-st and Evanston-nye, where the
t=unlI was found and east and west from that cor
ncr. Then looked through the basins north
and south along EyanStOn-ave, but finally came 20
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
20 Graceland and looked through the basins for
half q mile up and down the avenue and along the
cross streets and worked for five or six days before
giving up the search. By mere had luck we
stopped two blocks north OF Fifty-ninth-St.. and
consequently missed the catch basin where the
body was hid
Immediately upon taking the body out Of the
basin Forman Rocsch Informed the Lake View
police The body was placed in the Lake View
Morgue. which occupies the front room in the
basement under the station. Telephone messages
sent TO the city police. and an hour after the
nnding Of the body dozen OF Cronin's friends
body WIS Cronins In the evening Dr.
J. i. Brandt president Of the Cook County
Hospital staff, who was an acquaintance OF Cronin,
carefully examined the body and positively identi-
fed IL Us that OF ths missing man. DR.. Brandts
examination showed that upon the head were the
following outs aud bruises: Over the left temple,
four inches long Though the scalp and into the
skull over the left pIrictal hone a cut and
half inches long which also rkcd the skull also
cut one and half inches long over the frontal
bone; at the junction OF the left parIctal, n cut
three inches long. Among many others, the dentist
who Inst worked on CrounS teeth reached tho
,tauon late In the evening and positively identified
the body, rs did the man who Tor years had been
CTOnIn's tailor.
great hubbub was caused by the finding Of
the corpse. Shortly after the body had been
removed 10 the police station, officers were sta
toned the stairway and at the basement door,
and were once or twice obliged 70 use clubs in
forcing the crowds back The tumut continued
far into the night Long before midnight at
least forty men who had known CronIn had identi-
fed the body. The police will keep the body at
Lake View until the coroner orders otherwise
The man Woodruff, or Black, who after arrest a
fortnight ago confessed that hc helped 10 carry OF
trunk containing corpse, fhht OF n woman, from
u barn In the city, the night Of Cronin's dsappcnr-
ancc, was visited tonight in Jail lie showed no
surprise or dscompoSurc when told that The body
Cf Dr Croniu had been found north " where the
trunk was discovered But while hc apparently
talked freely about the matter, hr SEEMED careful
not Ia 20 outside OF the story h" hud originally
told. He repeatedly ad that II he had not been
locked up IN jail he could and would have cleared
up the trunk mystery before this time.
Dr. +. II. Cronln was about forty years old and
came 20 this country from County cork ireland. when
i've years old. lie lived for several year, al TITUS
vilic. Penn. and about 1850 hc removed 10 chicago
There WAS sarrll an Irish benevolent. political.
literary OF social socctg OF which he not mem
b-r Ho was an ardent supporter OF the policy uf
Parnell and prominent IN rsh-AmercaL political
movements. ON the evening OF the ith
Inst, ho mysterIosly disappeared from
bis home IN Chicago and somo Of his friends at
once attributed his disappearance to conspiracy OF
his Irish political enemies and asserted that he hal
several times said 10 his wife d" II 1 loss my life,
or anything happens TO me, Alexander sullivan viii
be tho one back Of IT," Mr. sullivan declared that
hc had had nothing 10 do with Croniu Tor three years
and said th, story too contemplate To notice At
the same timo there were many people who believed
that Cronlns love Of noIoroy had led him 10 absent
hlnsolf and that after he hal caused sensation he
would return Members Of the Land league laughed
at the report that be had been R,sassnated because
ho WAS aware Of questionable dealings In regard
20 tho Leagues funds, and declared that
10 had never collected any funds or
police followed many supposed CLOVIS aud dragged tho
Chicago river without success. 4 hOrsethlef told a
story Of a trunk containing tho manglod body Of a
woman, and declared that OF the
mvn engaged In conveying tho body 10
secret place Of burial was callel
Doc The CoHclusIon at reached by somo
p0po was that Crunln had a5sCOnded avoid tho
consequences Of malpractice. Tho day a resi-
dent Of Chicago declared that he had mot the Doctor
In Toronto and had talked with him. the theory
that IfOuin ON his way 10 Eu-
roIy, thOn prevailed for several days aud
tyro or three alleged interviews with him were pub
Ilshcd. Tho police Of Chicago, however continued
tholr search for the missing Doctor aud theories
as to his disappearance wcro put forth almost daily
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