![]() ![]() They were right, and the headline-grabbing trial that followed exposed Chicago's links to an earlier wave of bombings in British cities that had targeted the Houses of Parliament, the Tower of London and other landmarks. His friends suspected that he had been abducted and were convinced that the culprits were members of Clan na Gael, a secret society of Irish-Americans determined to end British rule in Ireland. Cronin, a doctor and prominent nationalist, had disappeared more than two weeks earlier, after a mysterious summons to attend to a patient. In the spring of 1889, just months after five women were murdered in the Whitechapel district of London, the body of Patrick Henry Cronin was discovered rotting in a storm sewer on the outskirts of Chicago. ![]() It was a crime almost as sensational in its day as Jack the Ripper’s attacks on prostitutes. ![]()
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