Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-25
te Missing Irish Leader at
GticagO was Evidently Most
FOully Murdered.
ME- SKULL BADLY CRUSHEO
dozen Wounds Found on the
Head, and Every Evidence of
a Crime Most Foul.
WERE THE BODY WAS FOUND

range That 1t Should Have Been Over.
looked Until the Reward was offered
Did the Latter Bring 1t to Light
Evident Connection With That Trunk
Mystery-The Body at the Morgue-ft
is Fully Identified-sullivan's State
nent
ICHIcAGo, May 22.-The latest sensation
Hrthe CrOnin case came to the fore, late
bis afternoon, when a telephone message
AOm the Lakeview police station an
uDCed that a body, supposed TO be
at Of the missing DR.. Cronin, had been
bud in sewer near the Marine hospital.
Ifhe body was wrapped in cotton similar
that found in the trunk which Woodruff
kims to have thrown away in L4keview
ter body was removed from 1t by his
o companions.
Thirteen of Cronin's intimate friends i'm
ediateIy went to Lakeview and inspected
Ne body, but declined to positively iden-
y it as that OF the missing man.
THE BOD1 Ot ChONlN 10 fOUNus
NCHlCAGo, May 22.-The dead BODY OF DR..
ronin, the lrish-AmericaIi who strangely
sappeared from 'his home in Chicago two
eeks ago, was found this evening some
stance north OF the city in sewer on
Evanston avenue. A bloody towel WAS
rspped about the head, but the body was
ark naked. A Catholic emblem which
e doctor always wore next to the skin
bout the neck was untouched. In tine
nd we're dozen wounds, which severed
scalp and indented the skull.
In the opinion of the police, Cronin was
bIv murdered. Much excitement was
knbt as to the identity of the body was
AM removed by a definite message from
hke View. 1t was evident from the ex-
fession OF the police that one of their first
hiscts will be to have explained the asser-
nsby
SUPPOSED FRIENDS OF cRoNIN.
Lieut Elliott, chief OF detectives, will
nye these people at the inquest and de-
land an explanation full and complete.
be detectives claim they have been hand
kpped from the start by the lack of as
ktauCe from those who claimed to know
concerning the doctors disappearance. |
will have this information now" said |
eut Elliott, "or there will be number |
prompt arrests"
WHOLLY accidental circumstances brought /
corpse to light. A gang OF laborers |
10 were cleaning bitches along Evanston |
enue, noticing near the corner OF Evans.
avenue and Fiftieth street strong |
ell OF putrid flesh, one OF the men pried |
"a the corner OF the ch-basin at the cor. |
and there discovered the corpse. 1t
apparently been hastily pitched into |
basin, as the head was underneath and |
feet and lays in the opening. |
liz basin is located nearly a mile from
ere the mysterious bloodstained trunk |
is found on the day after Cronin's dis
pearaaCe. 1t seems altogether remark |
e that it was not sooner discovered, |
the Lakeview police started out
search all catch-basins in that |
burb week after the trunk was found.
eOi the searchers said tonight they |
missed the basin where the body was
be body was Immediately taken to the |
keView morgue, and within an hour
ben Of Cronin's friends were there. They |
Peg lite sure it was that OF the missing |
tOr and their opinion was verified later |
that of Conklin, with whom CronIn |
y, and also ly others.
y. Brandt, who examined the body, said !
the blows on the head must have been
icted by
W SOME SHARP INSTRUMENT.
here would seem to be no possibility OF
bt as to the Identification Of the body,
bong many others who expressed posi-
opinion i'll regard to it was the dem
who recently worked on Cronin's teeth.
also man who for years had been
minis tailor. 1t is thought that
Hins body was carried in the
Od-stained trunk. There was cot
found about the feet and
der the head Of the corpse the same
aity as that found in the trunk, and
sads OF cloth found in the cotton In
trunk corresponded in appearance
the threads of the towel wrapped
put Cronin's head The body is much |
Piled, and iu an advanced stage Of de-
Exposition, owing to the long stay under |
water in the catch basin.
The man Woodruff or Black, who, after
Past, con fessed to having helped carry
The
TRUNK CONTAINING THE CORPSE,
leh he claimed was that OF woman,
% barn in the city, the night OF Gro.
Disappearance, was interviewed to.
in Jail. He manifested no surprise
kn told of the discovery, but, while talk
freely about the matter, he seems care
hot to 20 outside OF the story he had
tnaIly told. He repeatedly said IL he
not been locked upin Jail he could and
bid have cleared up the mystery before
tirna