The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-27
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LINK OF SLAIN
MYSTERY GIRL
Former Indiana Woman Is
Killed by Stranger in
New York.

By United Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 27.-Little
black books in which was written
the diary Of Vivian Gordon were
expected today to solve the mystery
IN her death, crime which may
reveal vast racketeering activities.
The body Of Mrs Gordon, who
came from Indiana as a henna-
haired youngster to become an
artist. and who remained to be a
demi-mondaine, was found clad in
Broadway finery in deserted gully
Of the Bronx Thursday. She had
been strangled
Names Of many figures in New
York's night life we're listed in her
diaries, names Of police figuring in
the current New York city vice in
vestigations we're included; Incl
dents which have been written into
police records Of her own activities
we're alnplifed, and fear of one man
was described:
Il fear only John A. Radeloff. He
could get Cohen or some of his
friends to dispose Of me-" the diary
read
Attorney Is Held
John Radeloh, personal attorney
for the woman, and Sam Cohen, an
eS-convict, we're held on $4,000 bail
as material witnesses while police
sought to question Andrew Nc
Laughliii. a patrolman Who arrest
ed and brought about conviction Of
Miss Gordon on an immortality
charge in 1923, and a taxicab
driver.
The driver watched q car, be-
heved to have been driven by the
killers speed to the place where her
body was found.
Meanwhile John E. c. BischofI
former husband of the night club
hostess, may shed new light on the
investigation His wife in Audubon,
N j., today made public a letter
which Vivian wrote to Bischoff.
Parts of it said:
You know that my conviction
was caused by a frame-up between
you and Detective Mclaughlin"
Mclaughlin is Absent
when I am through it will be
Just too bad for YOU" she said
after warning she planned to tell
the vice inquiry about her arrest.
] intend to go the limit and you
know as we'll as I do that this will
mean your finish"
The present Mrs. BischoG today
said at Philadelphia that her hus-
band had nothing to do with Vivi-
ans arrest and only desired not to
he in communication with her
Bischoff was in Washington today.
Mclaughlin was on leave from
the police department today and was
understood to be returning from a
short visit in Bermuda.
Only a few weeks ago Isidor j.
Kresel, prosecuting the investiga-
ton Of minor court activities in this
city, received a note:
Il have some information in con-
nection with a frameup by police
and others. I would appreciate an
interview at your earliest conven-
ience-Vivian Gordon"
An appointment made for her was
not kept, for some unknown rea-
SON
Wore Expensive Clothes
Police records revealed she once
had been arrested on an eXtortion
charge filed by an ex-convict writ
ing a series of newspaper features,
but the grand jury had refused an
indictment.
Her body, with the clothesline
used in strangling her lying nearby,
was found by truck driver. A
thin string of pearls dangled gro
tesquely beside the rope.
The clothing was disheveled. One
black pump, with its buckle of near
diamonds, was found near the
body. The other was missing.
Gloves wete on the hands, but the
girl wore no coat.
Police theory is that the wom-
an whose habit it was to leave
nightly her 81 ,800-a-year three-room
apartment between and midnight
and return at dawn or later, was
killed about a. m. She wore an
expensive mink coat when she left
home. She had none when found.