Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-23
GROVER BERGDOLL'
FIRST PLOT FAILED
Had Two Guards Fixed and or
fcred Witness $4,000 to
Assist Him.

Philadelphia, Sept 23.--As the govern
mcnt continued yesterday TO strengthen
its case against Mrs. Emma Bergdoll
and her four codefcndants, accused of
having conspired to aid the notorious
draft-dodging Bergdoll brothers, a wild
plot by Grover Bergdoll to escape from
Castle William, on Governors Island, last
March came to light for the first time.
Yesterdays developments at the Berg
doll conspiracy trial comprise the great
est sensations that yet have been produced
in the trial.
These are the most important points in
yesterdays testimony to show how the
defendants conspired to give aid to Grover
Bergdol and Erwin Bergdoll while the lat
ter were draft dodgers, dcserters from
the army and fugitives from Justice
After Grover Bcrgdoll escaped from
his military guards on May 81, 1920,
while he was in this city on his way
to place near Rising Sun and Elkton IN
Maryland to dig up his hidden pot of
gold" his mother, acting with power Of
attorney, collected rents and debts due
her fugitive son and had such money de
livered to him in places where she knew
him to be hiding This was according
to the testimony of Lieutenant Colonel
Charles G. Cresson, the judge advocate,
who prosecuted both the Bergdoll brothers
Mt their respective courts-martlal on
Governors Island.
The testimony of John Il. Ganley,
1852 North Twenty-sixth street, Phila-
delphia, an automobile salesman, showed
that AL Mitchell purchased ON quick
terms sedan-type car, the delivery OF
which 10 Erwin Bergdoll was testified
to the day before by Fitzhugh Lee Creedon
and corroboratcd today by another wit
ness.
Thomas r.. Furey, Baltimore auto
mobile salesman. formerly Of this city
and once q close friend of the Bergdolls
gave testimony which for the first time
implicated both Mitchell and Schulz IN
the delivery of the car To Erwin, who NJ
the time was hiding in n quarry near the
city. The testimony given by Furey.
who has been known rs the mystery
man" in the Bergdoll case, furnished
one of the sensations of tho day and
in all likelihood was instrumental IN
forever severing his connections with the
Bcrgdoll family
John G. Dashhach, a reporter on the
Public Lcdgar, and Harry ] Webster, n
reporter on the Evening Public Ledger,
were called to the witness stand to testI-
fy that Judge James +. Romig, the
3ergdolls Good Man Friday" got the
Sl05, 900 in gold from the United States
Treasury for Grover BcrEdoll Their
testimony viii be completed today with
the viewing Of the articles they wrote
after interviewing Romig last June.
The articles clearly state that Romig de
livered the gold - Bcrgdoll
Charles Brau the Bergdoll brother
who tired of has notorious name and
changed it, was implicated in the CON
spiracy by the testimony Of leo German,
the agent Of the Department Of Justice.
who led a raid on Braun home in Broom
al on January !, 1920, the day Grover
Bergdoll was captured in hls mother $
home. MIR. German testified that Braun
spared for time when the agents appeared
with their search warrants and thus gave
Erwin Bergdoll sufficient time 10 escape