The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-31
CRONlN WAS KILLED.

Disappearance of the Chicago Irish.
American at Last Accounted
For.
CHICAGO. Nav 22.-The dead body of Dr.
+. II. Cronin, the Irish-American who
strangely disappeared from his home in
Chicago two weeks ago, WINS found this
evening some distance north of the city in
sewer on Evanston avenue A bloody
towel was wrapped about the head. Tho
rect OF The body was stark naked. A Gath
olic emblem. which The doctor always wore
next 20 his skin suspended about his neck,
was untouched. OL the dead man's head
We're dozen deep cuts which had severed
the scalp and indented tho skull. 1t is the
opinion OF the police that Cronin was foully
murdered, and by some man who could not
bring himself to disturb a Catholic trinkot
Much excitement was shown at detective
headquarters when doubt as to the identity
Of the body WINS finally removed by definite
messages from L.keview. 1t was evident
from the expressions Of the officials that one
of the iirss objects OF the police
Will DO to have n number OF husp:-
cious assertions exp!ained-assert:ons mad,
by supposed friends OF Cronin. Lieut. Elliott
will have these people Mt the inquest and de-
,nand an explanation full and complete. The
detectives claim that they have been handi-
capped from the start by o lack of assistance
from those who claimed to know all con-
cernilg
THE DOCTORS DISAPPEARANCE
Lieut. Elliott said soon after the finding of
the body: Il will have this information now
or there will be n number Of prompt arrests. !"
Wholly accidental circumstances brought the
corpse to light A gang OF laborers IN the
employ Of the llkeview suburban govern
inent hauc been cleaning the bitches along
Evanston avenue during the week. To-day
Foreman Henry Noesch and two men were
working north on the cast side of Evanston
avenue towards Fifty-ninth street. As they
lcared the catch basin Mt the corner they
noticed q strong smell of purifying flesh,
and Roesch pred oil the top OF the catch
basin with his spade and discovered the
body OF DR. Cronin. 1t had apparently been
hastily pltcCed into the basin, for the head
was underneath and the feet and legs were
up in the opening. The place where the
corps was sdiscovercd-Fifty- ninth street and
Evanston avcnue-is three hundred yards
from the Argyle Park station of the Chicago
Il Evanston branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& ST. Paul railroad 1t is but two or three
blocks from the lake, and nearly mile
north from the corner of Su!zer street and
Evanston avenue where the
MYSTERIOUS BLOOD. STAINED TRUNK,
| empty, WAS found on the day after Cronin's
disappearance. 1t seems altogether Remark
able that it was not sooner discovered, for
| the Iakeview police sturte'l out to search all
the catch basins in the big suburb the week
after the trunk was found. Aid. Maxwell.
of the Lnkeview cOunci'. who was one of the
scnrche:s. said tonight:
We started out two days after Gronin's dis
appearance to search every each basin
along Evanston avenue. There were fifteen
men under Capt Wing and Il half u dozen
volunteers engaged III the hunt for the budy
We Looked first through all The catch
basins in the neighborhood of Suizcr street
and Evanston avenue, where the trun.: was
found and east and west from that corner.
Then we looked through the basins north
and south along Evanston avenue but fin
nliy came to the conclusion that the trunk
had been left for blind, ind that in
all likelihood the body had been hid
den some dist1ncc away We then went to
Graccland and looked in the basins for half
a mile up ana down the avenue and along
before giving up the search. by mere bad
| luck We stopped two blocks north of Fifty
ninth street and consequently missed the
catch basin where the body WAS hid
THE BODY IDENTIFIED
Immediately upon taking the body out of
III. basin Foreman l,oesch notified the Lake
view police station and summoned the patrol
wagon. The body was stretched out in the
I.lkcvicw morgu which occupies the front
room In the basement under the sta
tion. Telephone message, were sent
TO the city police, and IN hour after
the finding of the body n dozen of Crouin's
friends were at the station. The three Scan
Ian brothers, ;rho have been intimate with
DIR. Crunin, were among tie first who ar
rived. They all positively identified the
body rs that OF Cronin upon first sight
Later it was urIualiticdly identified by !. r.
tonkiin, the 6aioonkeeper, with whom CrOnin
lived and by James Roland and Patrick
McCary. During the evening DIR. ]. Il
Brandt president of the Cook courty hos
pital staff, who was an acquaintance of
CrOnin's. carefully examined the body, and
positively identified it as that of the missing
man. Among many others. the dentist who
last worked on CrOnin's teeth reached the
.tition late in the evening, anu
POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED TIE noDY,
ms did the man who for years has been Gro
MINIS tailor. great huDbub was caused in
the suburb by The finding of the CORPSE
Shortly after the body had been removed To
the police station tho street in front
was jamined with vehicles. and scores
OF people were crowding for aGnis-
sion 10 the basement where lay
the DOCTORS remains Officers were stationed
on the stairway aud at the basement door,
and were once or lw;ce Obliged to use their
clubs in forcing the crowd back. The tumllt
coctinuGd far into the night Long
before midnight ut least forty men
who had known Cionin had identified tine
body. The suburban police will keep the
nody and towel at I.akevicw until the cOro-
ncr orders otherwise. The man Woodruff or
Black, who, after arr"st u fortnight ago. con-
tossed TO having helped carry off trunk
containing corp.c. that Of u woman. he
claim, Il, from u baln in the city the night OF
Cronin's disappearance, %as interviewed to-
night in jail He manitcstcLf no sur
prise or discomposure when told thut the
body of DR.. Cronin had been found north OF
where the trunk was discovered, but while
he appnI emily to kcd freely about the mat CT
he secincd careful not to go outside of the
story he had originally told. He repeatedly
said thatif ne had not been locked up in jail
lie could and would have cleared up the
trunk mystery before this time
SULLIVAN DUMEFoUSDED
Alexander Sullivan. cx.president of the
irish National league, was horror-strick.n
to- night when told Of the discovered If DR..
Cronins bo"y. lie said he was at loss TO
know what to say, further than that he
was dumbtounded, US he has believed
all along that Dr.. Cronin wou!l turn up all
right in course OF tine. He lad no the cries
whatever TO advance as TO the probable cause
of tho doctors murder In reference TO the
statement made by some of Cionin's friends
ut the time Of the latter's disappear
ancc, that he tSuliivan} knew more
about TIL; matter tran lie cared to tell,
slr Sullivan said lie had treated that report