The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-29
FOUND IN A CATCH-BASIN.
THE BODY OF THE MISSING DOCTOR
City Laborers in ChicagO's Suburb, Lake
View, Accidentally Discover the Re-
mains of the nIysteriously
Missing DIR. Crouin.

mains of the Mysteriously
Missing DIR. Crouin.
CHICAGO, May 22.-The dead body of DR.. p.
II. Cronin, the Irish-American who strangely
disappeared from his home in Chicago two
weeks ago, was found this evening some dis
tance north of the city in q sewer on Evanston
ave. 4 bloody towel was wrapped about the
head. The rest of the body was stark naked.
4 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
aud indented the skull. 1t is the opinion of the
police that Cronin was foully murdered, and by
some man who could not bring himself to dis
turb a catholic trinket
Much excitement was shown at detective
headquarters when doubt as TO the identity Of
the body was finally removed by definite mes
sages from Lake View. It was evident from
the expressions of the officials that one OF the
first objects of the police will be to have a
number of suspicious assertions explained
assertions made by supposed friends of Cronin.
Lieut.. Elliott will have these people at the in
quest and demand an explanation full and
complete.
The detectives claim that they have been
handicapped from the start by lack Of assist
ance from those who claimed to know all con-
cerning the doctors disappearance. Lieut.
Elliott said soon after the finding of the body:
81 will have this information now or there will
be number of prompt arrests"
Wholly accidental circumstances brought
the corpse to light. A gang OF laborers IN
| the employ of the Lake View suburban govern
ment have been cleaning the bitches along
| EvanstOn-ave. during the week. To-day Fore
man Henry Rose and two men were working
1 north on the east side of Evanston-ave. toward
| Fifty-ninth-st As they neared the catch-basin
at the corner, they noticed a strong smell OF
! putrefying flesh, and Rose pried off the top OF
! the catch-basin with his spade and uncovered
! the body of DR.. Cronin. 1t bad 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 discovered is
] about three hundred yards from Argyll 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 a mile north from the corner OF Sulzer-
4 st. and Evanston-ave., where the mysterious
| blOod-stained trunk, empty, was found on the
day after Cronin's disappearance. There are
/ four catch-basns at the intersection of the
street, and the body was found in the on
! the southeast corner.
1t seems altogether remarkable that it was
| not sooner discovered, for the Lake View po
| lice started out to search all the catoh-basins-
| in the big suburb the week after the trunk was
! found. Alderman Maxwell OF the Lake View
] council, who was one of the searching commit
/ tee, said tonight: eve started out two days
| after Cronin's disappearance to search every
catch-basin along Evanston-ave. There were
| fifteen men under Captain Wing and hail
dozen volunteers engaged in the hunt for
the body. We looked first through all the
catch-basins in the neighborhood of Sulzer-st.
/ and Evanston-ave., where the trunk was found,
/ and east and west from that corner Then we
| looked through the basins north and south
1 along Branston-ave., but finally came to 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 to Graceland and looked through the
/ basins for half mile up and down the avenue
and along the cross streets and worked five or
| six days before giving up the search. By more
bad 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, Foreman Rose notified the Lake
| View polee-statiOn, and summoned patrol
wagon The body was stretched out in the
| Lake View mOrgue, which occupies the front
room on the basement under the station. Tele-
| phone messages were sent to the city police,
/ and hour after the finding of the body
| dozen of CTOnins friends were at the station.
| The three Seanlan brothers, who have been in
/ innate with DR.. Cronin, were among the first
| who arrived. They all but positively identified
! the body as that of Cronin upon first sight.
| Later, il was unqualifedly identified by T. r.
| COnklin, the salOon-keeper with whom Cronin
| lived, and by James BOland and Patrick Nc
| Carty.
| During the evening DR.. J. R. Brandt presi-
| dent of the Cook county hospital staff, who
was an acquaintance of Cronin's, carefully ex-
amined the body and positively identified it as
that of the missing man. Dr. Brandt's exam
| ination showed that upon the head were the
| following cuts and bruises Over the left tenn
| pie, the cut four inches long, through the scalp
and into the skull; over the left pariatal bone,
a cut one and half inches long, which also
marked the skull: also cut one and a half
| inches long over the frontal bone at the june
ton of the left pariatal bone; 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 has
been Cronin's tailor.
A great hubbub was caused in the suburb
by the finding of the corpse. Shortly after
the body had been removed to the police sta
ton the street was jammed with vehicles, and
scores of people were crowding for admission
to the basement, where lay the remains Off
GERS were stationed on the stairway and at the
basement door. and were once or twice obliged
TO use their clubs in forcing the crowds back.
The tumut continued far into the night. Long
known Cronin had identified the body The
suburban police will keep the body and the
towel at Lake View until the coroner orders
otherwise.
The man Woodruff, or Black, who, after
arrest fortnight ago, confessed to having
helped carry off a trunk containing a corpse of
a woman from barn in the city the night of
CrOnin's disappearance, was interviewed to-
night in Jail. He manifested no surprise or
discomposure when told that the body of DIR.
Cronin had been found north of where the
trunk was found. But, while he apparently
talked freely about the matter, ne seemed care
full not to go outside the story he had origin
ally 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.
STILL AN UNREVEALED MYSTERY.
Important Clews Claimed to Have Been Re-
ceived by the Police.
CHICAGO. May 23.-State's Atty. Long.
necker says that the police received inn
portant clews this morning, and that they
expect to have DR.. Cronin's murderer under