The Washington times., 1931-03-03
HIRED GIRLS
FORL|ST Of
SUCKERS
Police Told StrangIe Victim
Was Accompanied by z Men
on Fatal Motor Journey

on Fatal Motor Journey
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when a traffic policeman recOg.
nized it. Stafford said he had
borrowed the car from his boss,
o man named Zena, last nighS.
Stafford was rushed to the
office of District Attorney Charles
B. Mclaughlin for questioning.
Diary Gives Clues
Meanwhile, revelations in the
diary of the slain Broadway but
terfly remained as the most sub
stantial clues in the police in
vestigation of the murder mystery
which has developed into a sensa-
ton in New York.
The authorities were examining
every notation in Miss GOrdOn'S
6O-page diary, which contains
multitude of names, intimate con-
fidences, and startling disclosures.
In the diary the slain beauty
wrote of an ever-grOwing fear
that she would be murdered.
The diary shows the girl about
town" had a premonition she was
to be knocked off"
knocked off" we're the words
she employed in writing down in
her diary her growing fear that
she was to meet an untimely
death. On one occasion she
wrote:
g." giving mans
name), is supposed to have said,
Wen take her out somewhere.
No one will know what has
happened to her. Every mark
of Identification will be miss
ing, especially that ring mean
ing the $4,000 ring I wear"
Speaks of Henchmen
On February 13, 1923, ,Gshe made
the following notation:
-.. O." giving q mans
name), refused to pay doctors
bill. If anything happens to
me he is to blame. He has
henchmen."
And again she wrote:
g." manning q mani.
Is the one who was to have
knocked me off last winter. 1
guess - three initials),
is seeking his services for that
deed. three initials,
would stOOp to anything.
The new excerpts from Miss
Gordon'S diary were made public
by District Attorney Charles b.
McLauhlin, who announced we
are nearer a solution OF this
case than we were "a hours ago"
Maid Gives Evidence
Other developments in the
Gordon murder mystery were as
follows:
I Two men ia evening dress
- were in the murder car"
with Miss Gordon on the night
she was SHIN. according to the
story tOIT District Attorney Nc
. Laugh1n by Mrs. LeOnOra Hal
eey. Il Cuban. Of Mt. Vernon.
n. T., who held q part-time
iOF as maid for q woman she
bEieved was Miss Gordon. Mrs.
TlaIsey told of being in the
automobile with Miss Gordon
and the two men a few hours
before the crime was commit
ted.
8 Mrs. Cassie Clayton, Of Erie,
n" Pa, former chum Of Miss
Gordon, testified before Referee
. Samuel Seabury. and is said to
have revealed many details Of
q. Miss GOrdOn'S glamOrOuS past.
She is said to have connected
the slain woman with the
Arnold ROthStein gambling ring.
. The police were investigat
Os ing a bizarre story TO the
effect that Miss Gordon took
an active part in "lOve racket"
in which she is alleged to have
"cleaned up" thousands Of dol
lars. She is reported to have
had a list containing the names,
telephone numbers and deScrip-
tiOns of 40 attractive girls who
cO-Operated in making suckers"
out of their gentlemen friends.
Floating Crap Game
Cassie Clayton's story vas less
dramatic. However, she is said
to have told the authorities Of a
$250,000 floating crap game that
Miss Gordon had informed her
was operated in various hotels
adjacent to the Broadway thea
trlcal district. Vivian. it is un-
derstood knew the detectives
who accepted graft" as we'll as
the "pay-off men"
The importance of Mrs. Clay
toms story rested largely on the
fact she had the Dear Cassie"
letter in which Miss Gordon tri-
umphantly forecast revenge for
what she claimed was the "fram-
ing" she had been subjected TO in
1923.
Miss Gordon had written to Of
ficials of the vice inquiry that
she had been framed" on a vice
charge in March. 1923, by her
divorced husband, John Bischoff.
and Policeman Andrew McLaugh
lin, both of whom deny the
charge.
Two material witnesses in the
murder inquiry are still being
held in $4,000 bail each. They
are John A. Radeloff, attorney,
and Samuel Cohen, former body