St. Paul daily globe., 1889-05-23

were a dozen deep cuts, which had
severed tie scalp and indented the
skull. 1t is the opinion Of the police
that Cronin was foully murdered, ,and by
some man who could not bring him
self to disturb a Catholic trinket.
Much excitement was shown at detec
tive headquarters, when doubt as to the
Identity of the body YVES finally re-
moved by definite messages from Lake
view. 1t was evident from the express
ions Of the officials that one of the first
objects of the police will be to
have 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 assis-
tance from those who claimed
to know all concerning the
doctors disappearance. Lieut.. Elliott
said soon after the finding of the body:
II will have this information now, OF
there will be number of prompt az
rests" Wholly accidental circumstances
BROUGHT THE CORPSE TO LIGHT.
A gang of laborers in the employ of
the Lakeview suburban government
have been cleaning the bitches along
Evanston avenue during the week.
To-day Foreman Henry Roesch and two
men were working north On the east
side of Evanston avenue toward
Fifth-ninth street. As they neared
ner. they noticed a rather strong
smell of purifying flesh, and Roesch
pried off the top of the catchbasin with
his spade and uncovered the body of
DIR. Cronin. 1t had 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. Fifty-ninth
street and Evanston avenue, is about
300 yards from the Argyle Park station
OF the Chicago & 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
Sulzer street and Evanston ave-
nue., where the mysterious blood
stained trunk, empty, was found on
the day after Cronin's disappearance.
There are four catchbasins in the inter-
sections of the street, and the body was
in the one on the southeast corner. It
seems
ALTOGETHER REMARKABLE
that it was not sooner discovered, for
the Lakeview police started out to
search all the catchbasins in the big
suburb the week after the trunk was
found. Aid. Maxwell, Of the Lakeview
council, who was one of the searchers,
said tonight: 1--WE started out two
days after CroDin's disappearance
to search every catchbasin
along Evanston avenue. There were
fifteen men under Capt. Wing and a
half dozen volunteers engaged in the
hunt for the body. We looked first
through all the catchbasins in, the neigh
borhcOd of SulZer street and Evanston
avenue, where the trunk was found,
and east and west from that corner.
Then we looked through the basins
north and south along Evanston avenue,
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 Granceland, and looked in 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 mere bad luck we
stopped two blocks north of Fifty-ninth
street, and consequently missed the
catchbasin where the body was hid"
Immediately upon taking the body out
OF the basin Foreman Roesch notified
the Lakeview police station, and sum-
moned the patrol wagon. The body
was stretched out
IN THE IAKEv1EW MORGUE,
which occupies the front room in the
basement under the station. Telephone
messages were sent to the city police,
and an hour after the finding of the
body dozen of Cronin's friends were
at the station. The three Scanlan
brothers, who have been intimate with
DIR. Cronin, were among the first who ar
rived. They all identified the body
as that of Cronin upon first sight. Later
it was unqualifiedly identified by Il. T.