The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-04
Tragedy of Late
 Vivian Gordon
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vice squad patrolman and Bischoff, men have denied this.
 After Miss Gordon was released from the reformatory she demanded the return of her daughter. Several stormy scenes took place between her and Bischoff, who had divorced her at then time of her imprison- ment.
 Benita, terrified by these argu- ments, begged her father never to let her see her mother again. Miss Gordon, who was then beginning her rise to affluency in the company of John A. Radeloff and was later to become what Police Commissioner Mulrooney called an "expert rack eteer," tried to kidnap the girl, but she escaped.
 Miss Gordon then resolved to try to clear herself in the eyes of her daughter. She gathered evidence in an attempt to prove that the vice charge on which she was convicted was false, and a few weeks before her death wrote letter to Isidor J. Kresel, prosecutor in the Sea- bury inquiry which was digging out astounding revelations of graft and corruption among vice squad patrol men.
 She later talked with a member of kreseps staff. and promised to testify before the investigator as soon as her evidence was complete.
 But she never testified. Last Thursday her body was found in Van Courtlandt park. She had been strangled and thrown from an automobile.
 The investigation of her death, un- dertaken to the accompaniment of many rumors of shakeups and scandals in the police department, was still marking time to-day. Dis trict Attorney Charles B. McLaugh- lin of the Bronx admitted he still clung to the theory that Miss Cor don was killed to prevent her from testifying before the Seabury inves- tigatoin. His best line of research continued to be the complete diary which Miss Gordon kept.
 The two most promising indi- viduals found so far in the case, Radeloff and Samuel Cohen (alias Chowder-H Head Harris), was still in custody, as material witnesses. They were recorded in the diary as the men whom Miss Gordon had cause to fear and who, she wrote, might some day kill her. They were re- leased yesterday on writs of habeas corpus, but Immediately held again when Mclaughlin filed new affida- wits.
 Diary of Young Girl
 New York, March 4-(UP)-The diary which 16-year-old Benita Bischoff kept, told in few brief en- n i'm xut hi fnh h avs to suicide.
 A few excerpts from the diary, which was edited by police before being made public follow:
 Feb 28-What an awful mess mother got herself in. She has been found dead in New York, and they are saying terrible things.
 March 1-Everyone is nice to me, especially mother Cher step- mother. Mrs Eunice Bischoff) guess I'll change my name from Bischoff to Frederika Cher middle name.)
 March 2-They are saying so many things, t is awful.
 March 3--I just can't live any longer. This has got to be too much for me. I am going to end 1t all"
 The last entry: If any money is coming to me from my mother, I wish that it be divided between my grandmother, Herbert Trout, and Billy. I am in my right mind and am now going to turn on the jets" |"
 Herbert Trout is a youth who often took her roIler-skating. The Billy mentioned is Billy Walton, her half-sister, daughter by former marriage Df the present Mrs Bisch- off