Show CRONINS I DEAD BODY I was Found in a Sewer Catch Basin in Chicago SLEEP MYDAELIN BABE SLEEP The Manner in VhIch Joe JIcAuliffeSaid It to Tom Lees Two Young Women Fight with Knives CHICAGO May 2fiDr Cronin the Irish American who strangely disappeared from his home in Chicago two weeks ago was found this evening some distance north of the city in a sewer on Evanston avenue bloody towel was wrapped about the head but the body was stark naked A Catholic emblem vhich the doctor always wore next to his skin suspended about his neck was untouched On his head were a dozen cuts which had severed the scalp and indented the skull I is the opinion of the police that Cronin was foully mulL dered Much excitement was shown at detective headquarters when all doubt as to the identity of the body was finally removed by definite messages from Lake view I was evident from the expressions of the police that one of their first object will be to have explained the assertion made by the supposed friends of Cronin Lieutenant Elliott chief of the detectives will have these people at the inquest and demand an explanation full and complete 1 a3 h1 1 dh The detectives claim that they have been handicapped from the start by lack of assistance as-sistance from those who claimed to know all concerning the doctors disappearance I will have this information now said lieutenant Elliott or there willbo a number num-ber of nromnt arrests It was wholly an accidental circumstance that brought the corpse to light A gang of laborers who were cleaning the ditches along Evanston avenue noticing near the corner of Evanston avenue and Fiftyninth street a strong smell of putrid flesh one of the men pried off the cover of the catch basin > at the corner and there discovered the corpse I had apparently been hastily pitched into the basin as the head vas underneath and the feet and legs in the opening This basin is located nearly a mile from where the mysterious bloodstained trunk was found on the day after Cronins disappearance I seems altogether remerkable that it was not sooner discovered for the Lakeview police started out to search all the catch basins in that suburb the week after the trunk was found One of the searchers said tonight to-night they had missed the basin where the body was hid The body was immediately taken to the Lakeview morgue and within an hour a dozen of Cronins friends were at the station They were quite sure it was that of the missing doctor and their opinion was verified later by that of Conklin with whom Cronin lived and also by others Dr Brand who examined the body said the blows on the head must have been inflicted with some sharp instrument instru-ment There would seem to be no possibility of doubt as to identification of the body Among many others who expressed a positive posi-tive opinion in regard to it was the dentist who recently worked on Cronins teeth rcenty teet and also a man who for years had been Cronins tailor I is thought that Cronins bOy was carried car-ried in the mysterious blood stained trunk There was cotton found about the feet and under the chin of the corpse of the same quality as that found in the trunk and the threads of cloth found in the cotton in the J M l trunk correspond in appearance with the threads of the towel wrapped about Cronins head The body was much welled and in an advanced state of decomposition position > owing to its long stay under water in the catch basin The man Woodruff or Black who after his arrest confessed to having helped carry off a trunk containing which he claimed that of a corpse caimed was a woman from a barn in this city the night of Cronins disappearance was interviewed tonight in jail manifested no surprise when told of the discovery but while talking talk-ing freely about the matter he seems careful care-ful not to go outside of the story he had originally told He repeatedly said that if he had not been locked up in jail he could and would have cleared up the mystery before be-fore this time Alexander Sullivan expresident of the Irish national league was horror stricken tonight when told of the discovery of Dr Creams body He said he was at a loss to know what to say further than that he was dumfounded as he had believed all along that Dr Cronin would turn up all right in the course of time He had no tme theories to advance as to the probable prob-able cause of the doctors murder In reference to the statement made by some of Cronins friends at the time of the latters disappearance that ho Sullivan knew more about the matter than he cared to tell Mr Sullivan said that he had treated that report witi contempt at theme the-me He added he was horrified tp hear of the murder and will do everything in his power to place the guilt where it belongs be-longs Shortly after the news of the finding of the body had been received a reporter called on Mrs Conklin at her home where Dr Cronin resided When informed of the finding of the body she said that she was not surprised She had always said he was murdered You will undoubtedly the police the 8r f benefit of your knowledge of Dr Cronina enemies to aid in finding the doctors mur erec2 I dont know that I will said she They seem to know so much that they wont appreciate what I tell them and she hub the door Conklin woiud not talk to the reporter |