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...Detective Andrew G. McLaughlin, against whom the mysteriously murdered Benita Franklin Bischoff alias Vivian Gordon brought frame-up charges, was dismissed from the Police force. In the vice investigation he had refused to explain how he had banked $35,800.51 during two years when his salary...
Three weeks ago, a racketeering young lady from Manhattan named Benita Franklin Bischoff alias Vivian Gordon was taken for a ride in Van Cortlandt Park, was later found in the shrubbery, strangled (TIME, March 9). When it became known that five days prior she had gone to court with frameup charges against a New York City detective, her murder was regarded as a crowning outrage in the long series of revelations about the city's bench and police force. A storm of bitter indignation from New York's citizenry wiped the deprecatory smile from the face of the Tammany Tiger...
Nearly every newspaper in Manhattan printed an editorial of pity for little Benita Bischoff. But Mr. & Mrs. Ogden Reid's Herald Tribune ventured a trifle farther. Said their editorial...
...Benita Bischoff killed herself, President Hoover vetoed the Muscle Shoals bill. As we see it, that wasn't much of a story...
...Next day Benita was buried in Philadelphia. The sensation-mongers of the Press followed her even to the grave. The girl's father, John E. C. Bischoff, said that reporters had tried to bribe gravediggers to disinter the body, in the belief that the girl's diary had been buried with...