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...which operated in her court; 4) she had exploited her judicial position by accepting $1,000 to endorse a yeast product. Policemen. From testimony dug up during the magistracy hearings, Andrew G. McLaughlin, ousted vice squad member, was indicted last week for perjury. It was against him that notorious Benita Franklin Bischoff was about to bring framing charges when she was murdered.* A week before the McLaughlin indictment, two of his onetime colleagues on the vice squad were found guilty of assault. Last September they entered the home of a Mrs. Genevieve Potocki, ordered a round of drinks, beat...
...formal gathering of city officials, including Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, trouped down to police headquarters fortnight ago to IK; on hand when Commissioner Mulrooney an nounced that one Harry Schlitten had confessed lo driving the car in which one Harry Stein had strangled Benita Franklin Bischoff. Arrested two months ago (TIME, April 20), Stein's ap parent motive was robbery. With happy satis faction, said Mayor Walker: "Commissioner, have you any newspapers here for the first few days after the murder? ... I think in justice to the Commissioner and the department that these statements . . . that the police...
...them before they exploded. But after an hour, little Crowley, wounded and out of ammunition, surrendered. Fat Duringer had been hiding under the bed. Pleased that the murder of the red-headed dancer had taken the city's attention from the murder of another red-headed girl-Benita Franklin Bischoff alias Vivian Gordon, vice racketeer, whose death on the eve of giving testimony against a venal officer is yet to be solved (TIME, March 9, et seq.)-Commissioner Mulrooney sneered at Crowley: "Sure he fought when he was cornered. But so does a cornered rat. . . . He never really shot...
...York City, still mildly horrified by the murder of Benita Franklin Bischoff alias Vivian Gordon (TIME, March 9, et seq.), received out of the East River the decomposed body of Rose Yasso, missing since February, and found by a roadside the body of a redheaded "taxi- dancer" evidently shot after a drunken brawl in an automobile. Police found all the brawlers but the murderer, who had departed hastily...
Gordon Case. Five days after the Mayor's return to the city came the first explanation of the killing seven weeks ago of notorious Benita Franklin Bischoff alias Vivian Gordon, racketeering courtesan (TIME, March 9). Her death was first connected with the Seabury investigation because she died just after accusing a policeman, since dismissed, of framing her. Last week, however, the police brought forward a mass of circumstantial evidence pointing to simple robbery, not police corruption, as the motive behind the crime...