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Benson Murder Case theater of suspects grows as car tied to Pryfe
In the Benson murder saga District Attorney Markham and narrator Vance discuss Colonel Ostrander and Pryfe as key figures. Emery reports finding a gray Cadillac linked to Leander Pryfe, owner of 24 Elm Boulevard Port Washington Long Island. Markham orders Pryfe to meet at the Stuyvesant Club to learn what he knows.
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Leander Pfyfd
Alvin Benson
Elsi Hoffman
Paula Banning
Pfyfe’s
Benson and Benson
Bigbby Ostrander
William H. Moriarty
George G. Stitt
Stitt and McCoy
Maurice Dinwiddie
Ernest Heath
Burke, Snitkin, Emery
Homicide Bureau
Ben Hanlon
Phelps, Tragy
Vance
Captain Leacock
Benson
Pryfe
Long Island
South Africa
Markham
Colonel Ostrander
District Attorney’s Office
Heath
Seventy-fourth Street
Amsterdam Avenue
Sixty Eighth Street
Central Park
Leander Pryfe
Elm Boulevard
Port Washington
Emery
Leander
Swacker
New York
Leacock
Miss St. Clair