Evening journal., 1921-10-12
MRS. BERGDOLL
OWNLAWYER
Personally Answers u. S.
Suit for Accounting of
Growers Property
SAYS SHE HOLDS
$S45, ,oo6 FOR SON

PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 12.-Affer
paying out s36.S74 in lawyers fees
I recording TO hor own statement,
Mrs. Emma e. Bergdoll appeared
Yesterday in the United states Dis
.rlct Court as her own counsel.
She filed a printed answer, repiete
i with tricks of legal verb.age, to a
suit by Thomas W. Miller. alien
i property custodian, to compel her
TO give an accounting Of all the prop
erty she possessed belonging 20 her
/, son Grover. The Government alleges
she has turned in but a partial in
ventory.
l. Since only trained and high-priced
lawyers in equity cases are supposed
to know how TO prepare a fool
proof answer such as Mrs. Berg
doll hled. her attempt to prepare
u the document herself-if she really
Is the authors something unique
/, Doubt was expressed. however
that Mrs. Bergdoll really prepared
\ the answer. II is believed 70 have
been conceived by Major John S
Maxwell. her attorney. Why Major
Maxwell did not appear in cour
Yesterday was a mystery.
10 was suggested that perhaps
Mrs. Bergdo1l was testing the accur,
acy of the legal maxim, "a mat
who is his own lawyer has a foo
| for a client"
Mrs. Bergdoll got on 20 a fairi,
good start yesterday. Asked II he
counsel would appear, she replied
NO, ] don't need no lawyer. In
my own lawyer now"
The printed answer when sh
handed up TO Judge Dickinson con
I tanned what may be the inducing
cause for Mrs. Bergdoirs appear
ance IN court In proper person.
It showed that since she and he
sons became involved In their dim
culties. she has paid Total oounse
fees OF s36,s74. That sum include
\ $12.5O0 paid 10 the la.9 y. Clarenc
Gibboney. this city: SiO.25S 70 Henr
J. Scott. this city; Tf25 10 Harr
4 Weinberger. New York: $500 {
Theodore Lane Bear OF NorriE
town: $3.50 TO Frank 4. Harrigai
this city $500 10 the Burns Datec'
lvs kEency; s25c 10 M0rwlck
Mitchell Co, and s3ssi for stems
graphic records In connection wit
\ Growers court martial trial.
Il A positive statement by Mr.
Il Bergdoii IN her answer that sh
filed a complete accounting
Growers property with a "Mr. vi
f liams." an empioye Of the -Ai.e
Il Property Custodian's Office in wasi
ington, September 13. 1921. was on
Of the interesting features OF n
j document.
II was a surprise 10 Vincent
i Carroll, counsel TO the custodia
i Il never saw IT," he said.
According TO Mrs. Bergdoil
statement, the property she he
. for Grover amounted to SS45, 1865
However. her pocketbook has bee
q burned" considerably in expend
lures She says it has taken s14l
z O62 TO keep up the Bergdoll MAJ
sion for the past six years, VIII,
N covers the mortgages and interel
"A and $4,000 a year for running e
penses. While Grover was confin'
at Governors Island she sent hi
= $4,000, she says. and also 500
was sent him last April II while
Il was sojourning in Germany. Amoi
other expenses was Mrs. Bergdol
$1,000 fine upon her convection
aiding Grover and Erwin 20 eva
the draft. $1,000 went TO "UnC
Jimmy" Romig as expenses I
81 working in Growers behalf, and 4
rest was Growers expenses. "as p
checks"
Mrs. Bergdoli not only denies a
solutely that she has refused TO
count for her sons property ,
asserts she is deprived Of her o'
Y property in which Grover has
interest, and which she deman
back. She continues her unswei
ing loyalty to her son, denies he
an enemy and demands proof there
With the filing OF the answer
n Mrs. BergdoIl. Judge Dickinson NJ
the case was at issue like any or
nary equity case and that the Gle
n OF the court would hx a day for
hearing on the facts. The sole L
was. Judge Dickinson pointed Q
T. whether or not Mrs. Bergdoll y