MURDERED ACTRESS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17438, 9 April 1931, Page 4

MURDERED ACTRESS

KN3W TOO MUCH NEW YORK "VICE KING" NRW YOHK. March I A toiler addressed lo Vivian Gordon, Ilii- murdered actress who was in have given evidence agininst certain ppllcoiueu iii ll>«' "vice-ring" inquiry, lias Iwon published by the' New York American. ■ "Get this, darne,',' the letter said. "If .you won't lioop your mouth shut, you won't have to. There arc ways of fixing people who talk 100 much. This is the only warning we are going to give; You know who.-—M." Vivian Gordon, who had said slii) would testify against A. J. McLaughlin, n policeman' and alleged member of the "vice squad," to fit even with him foi having .arrested her ill 1923 on It charge of immorality. was found strangled wilh a clothes-line in a, park. Ha'>bi Wise, the Jewish reformer, has issued a call for the. organisation of a Vigilance Committee to combat (he gangsters and racketeers, and all the newspapers express the opinion that the woman was murdered because she knew too much. The actress' attorney, John Kadeloff, was arrested yesterday, after he had admitted, according to Police-Comniis siorier Murtrooney} that he had advised ihc girl not to testify. Sam Cohen, an other client of "Radcloff, who has a criminal record, was also detained.

Tiva dairy kept Kv Vivian Gordon was found the.notes-"The only man I feat '* Thdeloff. He could net Cohen or his leuchmen to do away with me."