Show JURY r F MAr KEW NEW YOnI Yong s Sept ept 25 s In IAP-In- n of the death of William dOlier Oller important witness in the Queens county sewer contract investigation in- in was given giyen impetus today today to- to day the report of the Queens county grand jury that he had been murdered At first it was was believed h was a suicide DOller DOlier president of the sanitation sanitation sanita- sanita tion corporation winch which received d I subcontracts in the bUil building ing of I Queens county f sewers ewers in iii which whid work it is alleged in graft was taken by valious parties was wa found shot to death on a lonely road in Queens county September 2 A pistol was lying in the crook of his arm Police listed death as a suicIde sui cide but on the insistence ot of widow and other ment mcm- bets bels of his family an investigation was started r She e grand jury har fifty eight witnesses but failed to discover r who killed him DOlier was to have been a witness wit wit- witness ness in the trial of former Borough President Maurice Mauri e l. l Connolly and Fr Frederick E Seely former Queens engineer of sewer design now under und un- un der d r way ar On the night he was killed he was reported to have had an engagement engagement engage engage- ment to meet w with th others rs involved in the trials Whether he attended su such h a meeting has ilas never been disclosed dis- dis closed The Jh death of DOlier was the second second sec sec- ond among persons involved in in the sewer investigation John M. M Phillips Phil Phil- lips head of the Queens sewer ring died in Atlantic City Cit N. N NJ J. J JUly 3 shortly sh after he was indicted with Connoll Connolly The cause of his death was given as acute appendicitis It has been lt the main sewer graft was engineered r.-h r. contracts so wor ed that bidders on sewer construction we were e ef f forced to buy their pipe through I Phillips who had a virtual monopoly ol oly on a special kind of pipe in Queens county |