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PROBE OF ALLEGED CORRUPTION NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 14. Fifteen unsolved Brooklyn racket murders are under scrutiny today by commissioner of investigation William Herlands, who succeeded in having governor Herbert Lehman supersede district attorney William F. Geoghan in a probe of alleged corruption among Brooklyns law enforcements agency. Any evidence Herlands unearths will be turned over to the special prosecutor the governor will name shortly. In addition to disclosing he will supersede Geoghan, the governor announced he would convene a special term of the grand jury to hear evidence. He also appointed supreme court justice Francis D. I McCurn, Syracuse Democrat, to preside at an extraordinary term of the supreme court j in Brooklyn during the law enforcement inquiry.
