Word: bischoff
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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...
Three weeks before her death Mrs. Bischoff had written Counsel Isidor Jacob Kresel-who was relieved as prosecutor for the Seabury investigation when indicted in the Bank of U. S. failure proceedings (TIME, Feb. 2)-that she had "some information in connection with a 'frameup' by a police .officer and others which . . . will be of great aid to your committee." Five days before her demise she communicated the nature of her information to Irving Ben Cooper, Inquisitor Kresel's successor. She told him that she was a painter. Police investigation later revealed that her comfortable income came...
...number of people might have wanted to kill Mrs. Bischoff: Shortly before her death she wrote to her husband that she was about to expose him and "make it hot for McLaughlin." On the day of her death, McLaughlin was in Bermuda. Her husband, John E. C. Bischoff, business manager of the Federal reformatory at Lorton, Va., was cleared of complicity in the crime. The motive of robbery suggested itself, for a ring and fur coat worth $5,000 which she had been wearing were missing. Immediate police attention was directed, however, toward one Sam ("Chowderhead") Cohen, onetime burglar...
...heels of the Bischoff murder came threatening letters to Referee Samuel Seabury, prime mover in the judiciary inquiry. Three members of his staff and other prospective witnesses were also threatened. Referee Seabury decided to conduct his own investigation of the killing when Counsel Cooper received a communication written on a Western Union blank signed...