New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-20
Prominent Jersey Phy.ieis
Accused of Murder Of
Student
Arrested at Training
Camp in Geors;;,
Negro Asserts He Saw Bod,
in Surgeons Cellar 2 D.,,
Before Its Discovery

yesterday when DR.. William J. co,,..
one Of the Lending physicians in ~
ern New Jersey and a power in "
Brunswick politics, was fc,-,r
charged with the murder Of j.., y
Piper, Rutgers College studen. w..
body was found in the woods At s,,,,
wood last Saturday.
DR.. Condor, who is q captain IN 4.
United States Army Medical R.,,,, /
Corps, and who served the army An
sistsnt surgeon in the Philippine, a,
Japan until he was retired with ho,,
in 1902, left here last Saturday 70, 4,
military training camp at Fort Or,
thorpe, Ga, where the I'd New J.u-
Infantry, Of which he is surgeon, lie
camped. He was arrested there By q,
military authorities to-day to avn
the arrival of New Jersey detee,iva
Took Care of Furnaces
Piper, the murdered man, vi,
graduate of the University OF vermu.
twenty-four years old, married and IL
father of two children. He came hen
with his family early in the year q.
took up a postgraduate course at nvs |
gers To exc out an income he under.
took TO attend TO the furnaces in ss.,
of the bigger residences in the ter.
that OF DR.. Condor among them. d /
the evening Of February II he l..,
make his round Of furnaces, telling h
wife he would be back in half an hcg
He failed to return. Neighbors OF D.
Condor told the authorities Of hearl
what they thought was the report Of,
revolver and 80 calibre NJ
volver was found near Condon's hons
but investigation led nowhere an.
Piper's disappearance became loes.
mystery until his body was discovered
last Saturday morning.
Tie body was pierced through n.
left breast and In the lungs 81
calibre bullet was embedded. Al
overcoat and jacket which were ,bss
toned around the corpse shows' 70
bullet hole. Recognition Of the 81
dent was impossible, natural dee'rr'
sition having been accelerated b ~
action of lime with which the bodJM
covered. Rings and initiated triri'a
in the murdered mans pockets nat
Identification possible.
Saw Body In Cellar
Following the discovery Of the be;l
Allison Wellington, a negro, who ns
done odd Jobs around the Condor hon.
told Prosecutor Joseph +. Strlckler "
story which resulted in Condor beti
charged with the murder. Welling.m
declared that two days after Piper az
appeared he entered the Condor c.llr
and smelled decomposed flesh. seeIa
the source, he declared, he found
body in a corner of the cellar and fs
from the place. He told a promlr"
New Brunswick attorney OF his dise'r
cry, and, with a detective, returned
the cellar. The detective did not en'G
the negro said, but waited outside wsn
he, the negro, reentered and found w
body gone.
Lime, similar to that on the niI
was found in the cellar By the pr'.,,
cutor and his men. Two stained o.
e-whitened spots on the cellar i's'
were declared by the prosecutor tH
the places where body had lain. ~
also was found, It is declared, u y,
Condon's automobile, and one OF ~
doctors coats-the one which the p''s
ecutor believes the physician wore =
the night before he left here-slH y
streaked with the white powder, PEoH
cutor Stricken asserts.
Sensation Predicted
81 know the circumstances urcs
which Piper met his death" ne said y
night, "and the disclosures which W.
come in the near future will be n''
sensational than to-day's." a..
The authorities are convinced w
Piper's body was placed IN the sp's
wood woods only short time before
was found. It bore all the eylcs,eu
of having been concealed for ,ol.
period. The absence Of bullet %.
in the overcoat and coat lead 70 u.
belief that the student was kli...
while he was at work. Piper was -.
in the left breast apparently H'N
above. Nd,
An absence of possible motive i.' !,
ures the mystery. The dead s'uoe. a.
described 10 have had retlnng, 80 .,d
self-effacing, disposition. His WE ~
children left here for Their lo', I..
home in Vermont soon after fips.
appeared, but all who remember !,
man say il is unlikely that ne WON.
anything TO arouse the passion Va
murderer.
Doctor Carried Revolver
Investigation Of the habits o. w H.. ~ !,
don indicate that II he had any,h.a..; :,
DO with the mans death the s n. x.,
might have been accidental. ~. n,
in the habit of carrying a revoiss., Il
friends say. owing 10 the necesS. "a,