Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-23
CAMP BELL MADE
$4,000 IN DEAL,
'TE[LSPR0bERS
Army Officer Relates
Personal Affairs Un-
der Hard Pressure.
Claims Injustice Has
Been Done Him by
Hasty Investigation.

Washington, July o.
Major Bruce R. Campbell OF
the United States army, told
a house investigating commit
tee Friday that not a single
penny of the $500 placed by
him with a Wall street firm
for stock market trading last
year was received from the
Bergdoll family.
Flatly denying the charge by Mrs.
Emma c. Bergdoll of Philadelphia that
he had been paid 5000 to aid in OBJ
taining freedom for Grover G. Berg
doll. her son, who evaded the draft.
Major Campbell declared that the sum
sent to the brokers was his own
money, hidden by his wife at her home
since the early days of the war.
Tells of Hidden Treasure.
The major, called here hurriedly
without opportunity to study the
charges against him. at first declined
of the fund. but pressed hard by the
committee, he turned about suddenly
slnd told of the hidden treasure and a
moment later related in detail how
$500 investment, placed with the late
Milton Young of Lexington, KY, be-
fore the war, grew to $4,000 by 1917.
1t was this sum, he said. that vas
hidden away and later shifted to Wall
street and lost.
Processing ignorance as to how the
Young investment had increased, Major
Campbell said it had been turned back
to him by man, still LIVING, but whose
name ne declined at the moment to
give. Then in the midst of a sharp
exchange with committeeman, Camp
bell broke in, declaring, ''Oh hell, it
was my father"
Will Call Father.
At this point the committee decided
to call the father, William r. Camp
bell of Lexington, who was asked to
come here at once.
Extremely reluctant to touch upon
family affairs to clear himself of the
charges Major Campbell declared that
it had been his purpose to ask time
that he might be abe to corroborate
every word Of his testimony. It was
for this reason he said, that he did
not want to disclose all of his evidence
until he had been allowed time to sub
NIT proof in denial of the accusations
The major asserted that a fright
ful' injustice had been done him by
the committee in permitting Mrs
BergdoH and representative of the
brokers to testify when he was not
present. He protested vigorously that
an agent of the army intelligence SER
vice in inspecting his bank account at
New York, had not shown that at
prior date he had more than $1,000 on
deposit. A telegram, he said, had been
sent the bank, requesting that it verify
his statement to this effect and to
Peters.
Declines to Disclose Banks.
u At various times Major Campbell
declared he and his wife had SIT 900
on deposit, not counting the sum lost
ON the market but he declined to men
ton the names of the banks until he
could get hold of his papers, enroute
with his household effects from Cover
nor's Island to Little Rock. Ark.
There were moments when Major
Campbell was unable to control his
feelings when referring to his wife and
his old father and he banged the table
in anger as he denounced what he said
was the attempt of the Bergdolls to
blacken his name. AS military coun- |
sci for the Stacker he never received
a dollar he declared. The only thing
they ever gave him, he said were three
little cambric handkerchiefs, bought at |
a soldiers fair on the island, as trink-
cts for hir hahieS