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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...
...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...
...plethora of "leads," was unable to produce a single clue to the woman's death. Meantime, enterprising newspapers were able to print "true stories" of the whole case with only a few names omitted for libel's sake. When the wheels of justice seemed incapable of budging in the Bischoff case, conscientious citizens began to think that the legal machinery of their town had been allowed to grow rusty with disuse, that it was high time that an investigation be made higher up. Fortnight ago, the City Club, a potent civic organization, petitioned Governor Roosevelt to remove Thomas...
...Whitey" Lewis and "Dago Frank" Ciro-fici were sentenced to death for the murder. The reaction to this affair gave the State a Reform Governor (Charles S. Whitman), the city a Reform Mayor (John Purroy Mitchel). Last week there was as yet no indictment in the three-week-old Bischoff case, and Boss Curry knew that his constituency wanted one. He knows that the strength of Tammany lies in keeping the populace lethargic and contented: providing food for the needy, releasing important Republicans from jury duty and other irks, taking care of traffic summonses for the rich. Tammany does...