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...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...
Eight members of the Harvard cross country team will leave Boston tomorrow for the annual Intercollegiate Cross Country Meet, which will be held at Van Cortlandt Park, New York City, on Monday afternoon...
Into a New York court fortnight ago went descendants of Stephanus Van Cortlandt seeking justice for his property. Simultaneously into a Connecticut court went descendants of Uncas seeking justice for his property. A railroad had blocked the entrance of a little river that ran down past the Van Cortlandt estate. Realtors were trying to cut Uncas's burying ground up into building lots...
...doughty Dutch immigrant, Stephanus Van Cortlandt was born in Nieuw Amsterdam in 1643, saw it become New York under the English in 1664. An active politician, he was chosen Mayor of New York at the age of 34, later collected its taxes, dispensed justice from its supreme court. Outside of political office hours, he piled up a fortune as a merchant at the northeast corner of Pearl & Broad Streets, served as senior warden of Trinity Church, bought land in what is now Westchester County. When he had accumulated an estate of 83,000 acres extending ten miles along the Hudson...
...York Central R. R. threw a solid bridge across the Croton where it empties into the Hudson. Surviving Van Cortlandts now complain that this bridge blocks boats passing up the Croton to their estate. Last spring a judge ruled that the railroad must replace its structure with a drawbridge, but before he could sign his decree he died. Therefore last fortnight Mrs. Isabel R. Mason and the Misses Catherine Van Cortlandt Mathews and Anne S. Van Cortlandt, now occupants of the family manor house, appeared in the White Plains Supreme Court to recommence their suit against the railroad. Clad...