New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
Is w oman Held
As Shoplifter
DR.. Susan Seed?
Judges Believe Prisoner
Called Susie Condor, Who
Was Freed Under $500
Bail, Is Missing Doctor
Sisters Deny Accusation
Say They Found Lost Rela-
tive iii Newark; Mind
a Blank After Accident

Is Susie Condor, arrested last Sat-
urday and convicted of shoplifting, DR.
Susan T. Seed, a chiropractor of the
Nevada Apartments, who was reported
missing the day the Condor woman
was arrested?
Justices Frederic Kernochan and A.
V. B. Voorhees, say they are one and
the same person. DR.. Elizabeth Brand
and Miss Catherine Condor, sisters of
Dr. Seed, deny this, asserting that
they found Or. Seed last Friday in
house in Newark. where she had been
taken after losing her memory in an
accident. On this day the Condor
woman was released from the Tombs
under bail for sentence March 5.
Mistake, Say Sisters
Despite the various points of coin
cidence in connection with the iden-
sity OF the two women, the sisters, who
came on here from Cleveland few
days after the reported disappearance
OF Dr.. Seed, say they are sure mis-
take has been made in coupling the two
names. Both women, it appears, are
widows, forty-one years old. and say
they come from Cleveland. The sisters
Of DR.. Seed also admit that her maiden
name was Condor.
The woman who gave her name as
Susie Condor was arrested in the de-
partment store of James McCreery. at
Fifth Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street.
on the afternoon of February 21 by
Helen Carson, an operative of the
Stores Mutual Protective Association.
She was arraigned in the woman's
night court before Magistrate Nc
Geehan, charged with stealing two
rack, valued at about $4S She was he
manded to the Tombs and was tried
last Wednesday in Special Sessions be-
before Justices Voorhees,, Moss and
OKeefe, and pleading guilty was again
remanded to the Tombs pending sem
tence.
Chief Justice Kernochan says that
on Friday night James D. c. Murray,
an attorney, handed him some news
paper clippings recounting the disap-
pearance of DR.. Seed, declaring that
he believed that Miss Condor, his
client, was the missing chropractor,
and asked that she be let out on bail.
Justice kernochan said the $500 bond
fixed was furnished in cash by a Miss
Florence Hand. who gave her address
ss 1872 West Twenty-e ighth Street. No
person with such name could be
found.
Attorney Refuses to Talk
Murray says he was employed by
Susie Condor, and refused to make any
further statement.
DR.. Seed occupies a suite Of, eight
rooms in the Nevada Apartments, at
Seyra0-ia-r
: place is lavishly furnished, and was
also occupied by another woman, whose
name could not be learned DR.. Seed
came here from Cleveland three years
ago, and is said 20 be the widow Of
James Seed, a former merchant of Bay
City, Mich.
Visitors to the apartment were told
by the sisters that DR.. Seed was i'll in
bed and could not be seen. DR.. Brand,
who is also chiropractor, told a re-
porter for The Tribune all the circum-
stances surrounding the disappear earance
and finding Of their sister.
They learned of their sisters dis
appearance, she said, through the other
woman of the apartment. On Thurs
day she says a woman who gave her
name as Mrs. Mary Bennett, of Newark,
drew up in a taxicab and told Dr.
Brand that she saw reports of e missing
woman in the newspapers and thought
tnat woman staying at her home for
the last five days might be DR.. Seed
. She further told DR.. Brand, according
to the latter, that the woman had
slipped on the ice while attempting
TO avoid an automobile on High Street
and had injured her head, causing loss
of memory.
Mrs. Bennett, according to DR..
Brands story, took the woman into
her home, and unable to find anything
about her person to identify her, har-
bored her for five days. She explained
that Mrs. Bennett failed to call ply
slcian or notify the police during this
time because of her "simplicity" DR..
Brand could only recall that Mrs. Ben
nett lived on side street just off High
Street and that she had family.
Memory Restored Suddenly
DR.. Brand says that as soon as she
arrived at the house, she gave her
sister what she called an "adjust-
ment,' treatment of her spinal
column. which she says Immediately
restored her memory. They were
accompanied to the Nevada apart
ments by Mrs. Bennett. arriving about
or 3 o'clock, or shortly after the
hour when Susie Condor was re-
leased from the Tombs on bail.
despite all these strange coin
cdences," concluded DR.. Brand. II
want to emphatically deny that DR..
Seed is in any way connected with the
Susie Condor that was arrested for
shoplifting, and action shall be taken
against all persons circulating re-
ports to the contrary as soon as DR..
Seed is sufficiently recovered"
Justice Voorhees, said last night
that there was absolutely no doubt
that Susie Condor was DR.. Seed. that
James Murray, attorney for Susie
Condon. had so stated to the court,
and that the identity of the Condor
woman as Dr. Seed had been further
established by Miss Mary Hangar,
probation officer.