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BtRCDOLLS FIGHT HARD .
TO SAVE DRAFT OOOGER
Second Detective Arrested and
Charged With Plot to Draft 1
Board; Sisters as Dccoys.

Philadelphia, March Following the
arrest yesterday Of Herman +. Davis,
former assistant manager Of the Burns
Detective Agency, on charge Of con-
spiracy To corrupt and intimidate govern
ment witnesses against Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll, the alleged draft dodger, Ed
ward Dyer, n former operative Of the
same agency, was taken into custody to-
day on a like charge. Further revelations
of the plot in which they are alleged to
have been engaged while in the employ If
Mrs. Bergdoll were made today by John
=. Dwyer, secretary cf Draft Board No.
81, which is bringing against Bergdoll the
draft evasion charges on which he will
be tried by court-martial at Governors
Island, New York, on March 9.
When delay in tho trial Of Bcrgdoll
was granted, following his plea of in
sanity, he instructed Captain Brace
Campbell, his military counsel, TO in
vestigate charges he made that Mr..
Dwyer had accepted brides, had been
prejudiccd against him and that he had
been called on the telephone by MIR.
Dwyer a year after he had deserted.
The case was accepted by the Burns
Agency in New York and Dwyer was
assigned TO the case here with Davis
retaining fee. A room vas engaged in
the Adeiphia Hotel The detectives first
attempted to reach Miss Gibbs, one of
the draft board clerks, according to Mr.
Dryer. She, however, was I'll. Never
theless, Dwyer asserts, the detectives
made up reports purporting to give CON
versations with her in which she made
statements da naging TO Dryer.
Then they sought Miss Gertrude
Raune, another clerk. On Tuesday,
Feb. 3. Dwyer called Miss Raune on the
telephone at her home. He introduced
himself as Edward Dwyer Of Syracuse,
n. Y, and told her he had been in the
army at Camp Jackson. While there,
he stated he had received sweater
bearing Miss Raunc name and address
The detective asked her to make an
engagement She asked him to call. In
the meantime she told Dwyer and re IN
TURF called on Major Wynne of the District
Attorneys staff To watch the actions Of
the suspected agent of Mrs Bergdoll
Dwyer called on the woman but GertrIde's
twin sister, Margaret, acted as her sub,
stitute and received the alleged sohuer
who rever had served in the army.
On another occasion one of the sisters
one OF the detectives TO
dance they being Swallowed throughout
the evening by an automobile containing
Major Wynnes men. While the twin
sisters were reporting all they learned to
Dwyer, the detectives according To his
story, were making glowing reports TO
Mrs. Bergdoil.
Dryer charges they Invented an "af-
fnity" for him, told how this affinity
handled all the graft money which they
said he had received, and told OF damaging
admissions made by Miss Ruane, although
they were never certain Just which Miss
Ruane 1t was who made the admissions.
However, the reports failed to satisfy
Mrs. Bergdoll, and she employed another
detective agency 10 watch the Burns mon.
The two detectives, although unaware
Of it, were being watched from two angles
by Major Wsnpe and his men, in the
interest of the Government, and by the
other agency in the interest of Mrs. Berg
doll
Dwyer made il clear that the two de-
tectives were promptly dismissed by VII
liam j Burns rs soon as he learned of the
nature of the case, and that the Burns
Agency has since co-operated fully with
Major Wynne in perfecting the investi-
cation.