Word: frameup
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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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...
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...