Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-02-04
N'AVOY IS CALLED
N BERGD0LL CASE
u,,,,s Committee Asks Al Data
Gained Here on Slacker's
Escape
c,eBoNEy SOUGHT BIG FEE

ooreemcnts by which Iarg,,
a'rSf II BcrcdolI money w wero &c "A nscIl "" &
.uf'SS mo Washington lay .u Urn Hrover 70, Clcvc-
70 ,nnUy inr in tho event that T mr"'t doscrtcr.
Bal,eERi ,Bas ERicrgdoll, slackrr ,n mnG tbc new
lanu his liberty. viii hsurr, II, '.candol
Eonn.tIi,gOtion ~, Of the herg"%%n %nrerc.s sr%'s""
inycIS,'iSos nN,"S has been started IN ohsstTTnl es T,li
when cn,.oscntatvc "" Julius kahn. on ;,;.nr, "i.
kGp'' I chairman of the HOUSE in;,% nintr;ct
f1rn,n' f.. committee, has calIen calIen,,,,ia ha' ~, ~
af,ov afanS McAvoy. of l,hiia1sl,,nn'"f .n {, oto 20
MoIISt MoisS The committee win a.. ho ,"" "os" So" -
in rs EJcAvoy's first, move, upon sond ,r
Mr' these instructions. was TO Sc,ln SEM,
reipt on II the alleged contracts ar ar"Wn ~
copieS signaturc, but never :igh'n. "
Up u,on iU Kahn. and to give o'"''
.1n;ss .nSr," to the public. .,.o o,,o,od con
coneSS :" asserted that these hl'egpu Ioh
II lS .oro "n., not to have bccn si%ncd py
trartS M'' n, MI. but by ID. tlnrente
Rsrsao" RSEdOoy Dcrsdoll's Philadelphia at-
torney. ,,s uore never signed by
The c'n,, nn,n,~norcntly. It has not n"rl
any one 'nnaccr,ain what was the uI,l- u
possible ort 10 "1 Il any. between MT; "lp-
mate ron[.wvI rroycr Bcrgdoll aud the WASH e
lng,on firm ,.r.
v. ucAvoy in making. the coo.raTiLSS ,n,,iS
W, ": y" soid that in his opinion II Wou,n nii
public; SUI su," sntircly regular for AnSe''
have Der" - bovr sought Bergdoll sig
ba,'ttE ~ oithCr Of these contracts ,a mho
nature ~ boarding to sliding sra'e
that pa; n.nal, Mr.. McAvoy Sald ne
vas qul',h u on,.ers " in the case had actcu
felt ths snith aG in obtaining BergdoIi : re.
IN goon iT'af .bot no might look for the 'po,,
lease )" " ;"~j Which he said he had buried
in =" the %J~I,,% T~Ay"y said the Anscil e. &
Mr. mrn srn, was paid $4,000 cash by
Baie! o" III "ftcr the Washington law
GioOVLHoi boon retained. This money
,erS W"Ivoy said. was out OF the SlE'-
W. VII, .iren , C;ibhonpy BY Mrs. Bergdoll.
wv frst Of the two agreements
Inv, Inv IN 70 cover Ansell X BAILEY $
a.,u.,T;cinotion a,uT%i in the case provided for
,bo following payments: . ,,o
u riye thousand dollars to present MS
c.so 10 the War Department
Two thousand five hundred dollars 10
nrespnt petition for cIemency or IL
presidential pardon.
1--WE TwCnty. FIVE thousand dollars in case
mo War Department should not sustain
me findings Of the mi litary court
martial ~s and release Bergdoll.
Twenty thousand dollars in case
parvdoll should be released on pardon
by the President or on q plea LOT
clpmprCy.
Fifty thousand dollars in case Berg,
al, should be released by the civil
courts after all other measures to OBJ
,sin his liberty had failed.
Five thousand dollars for each year
omitted from his five years sentence
on n petition for clcmency.
Five thousand dollars If the lawyers
should obtain Growers release from the
military prison pending final action
bv the civil courts on his writ of ha-
beaS corpus.
Second Agreement
The second agreement, which was
drawn IN shortly after the first. pro-
vlinr that Ansell \ Bailey would be
paid:
Five thousand dollars for presenting
lis case to the War Department. elem =
ency board or the President, severally.
Forty thousand dollars if Grover
should be released either by the War
Department, the clcmency board or the
civil courts.
II tho lawyers failed to obtain his
absolute release. but managed to secure
a remission Of his sentence, the second
agreement provided for the payment OF
10000 for each year RENTED from the
sentence,
Both agreements were submitted &c
to grand jury which last summer in.
veStigatcd the escape of the Stacker
and which consurcd Mr.. Gibboney
Samuel ] Ansell and the latter's part E
n'r, Mr., Bailey, for gross careless
ness They wer" written last April, q
month before BcrGdoll. then sentenced
70 serve tiv" years in prison, escaped.