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...York last fortnight someone knotted a clothesline around the shapely neck of Benita Franklin Bischoff, alias Vivian Gordon, strangled her and threw her dead body into the bushes of Van Cortlandt Park. She had been about to testify in the city's vice investigation. Vivian Gordon became the story of the week...
...Audubon, N. J., Vivian's daughter, Benita Bischoff, a dark, homely, boyish girl of 16, read the newspapers. In her diary she wrote...
...Then Benita lay on the kitchen floor and inhaled gas from the stove until she was dead...
...body of a good-looking red-headed woman was found sprawled in a clump of bushes by the side of Mosholu Avenue in New York's Van Cortlandt Park, early one morning last week. It was identified as Benita Franklin Bischoff, alias Vivian Gordon, a racketeering lady of light virtue. She had been strangled to death with a clothesline. With the discovery of her corpse, the city's fetid judiciary investigation, hitherto concerned with Extortion, Bribery and Corruption, now had to reckon with Murder...
...Floor Above" live David Kennard (Ivor Novello) & wife (Benita Hume). Their story: While working on a symphony, David goes blind. His wife's suitor subsidizes the family, allows David to believe that his symphony has won a $10,000 competition. David finds out the truth, imagines that his wife is unfaithful, dismisses her. When she returns he will not allow her to sacrifice herself for him, pretends that he has regained his sight. The deception is unsuccessful, however, and Mr. & Mrs. Kennard are last seen at the piano, where he is playing her a little love ditty...