Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1918 — PIPER BRIDE’S SKULL CRUSHED [ARTICLE]

PIPER BRIDE’S SKULL CRUSHED

AUTOPSY, HOWEVER, FAILS TO CLEAR CONFUSION OF MURDER EVIDENCE. Muskegon, Mich., Dec. 19.—Findings in the autopsy performed today on the body of Frieda Weichman, of Chicago, that the girl’s death was caused by the crushing of her skull, have not cleared up the confusion of circumstantial developments, the police admit, in the case of Milo H. Piper, local insurance agent, who is charged with her murder. The body was disinterred today at a local cemetery on order of the prosecuting attorney’s office. This was the first time since the case was reopened that a post mortem had been ordered, previous examinations having been merely for identification purposes. Three physicians who examined the body today declared that death resulted from blows struck on the back of the head* In discussing his marriage in 1903 to Miss Iva Goodeneugh, a 15-year-old school girl of Benton Harbor, Piper declared today that it was a ■“high school love affair,” which ended when he left after “trouble with ler parents.” The couple were divorced. The Muskegon authorities are continuing their investigation of the Benton Harbor angle of the case and also are pursuing inquiries along the Michigan route of the honeymoon Pipe aadmits he and Miss Weichman took in 1916.