Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-01-28

nond, Ind. Just before we reached In
/ dianapolls we saw a junk dealer beside
| the road. / stopped and bought q pair
/ of Indiana license tags from him. Then
we drove into indianapolis. From there
we went to Lafayette, Ind. and thence
! to -GhicagO
NO EFFORT AT
| CONCEALAIENT.
| Arriving at Chicago. we made no eff
! fort at concealment. We drove openly
! down Michigan avenue Leaving Chicago,
we proceeded to Milwaukee, where we
spent the night at the St Charles Hotel
! The next day We went to Madison and
| from there to Minneapolis, where l
bought all the newspapers and read with
great interest the stories Of my escape.
/ We spent the night In St Paul. The next
/ day we drove TO St Vincent, Mimi, on
the Canadian border. AS a blur and to
secure information where and how to
( cross into Canada, l asked a fellow by
the road where / could get drink He
replied: Just walk out from this side
Of the road and you will miss the United
States custom house We got out and
/ walked for about half mile when two
/ fellows came along in car and invited
4 US to get in, saying they would give US
/ q
/ &c Emerson. Canada We spent that night
/ at Emerson. The following day Stecher
| hired a taxicab to cross into the United
| States to get our motor car, but the
/ United States customs officials held him
/ up and turned him back We had to
( leave our motor ear and baggage where
/ II was.
The Canadian immigration officer. n
gentleman in a bright red coat, began to
/ get suspicious and we got q tip that
started us on our'way again. We started
| to walk. We must have gone about sew
eateen miles when we reached q town
with the French name of Letelier There
we hired a taxi and drove eighteen miles
TO the railroad station. There we caught
train for Winnipeg, arriving there the
/ first day Of June.
! In Canada you understand, each of
the steamship companies has the right to
! take passport applications. At the Office
of the first company we visited we sad
we were Americans and that we wanted
passports to travel in England. We were
/ referred to the United States counsel. At
the offices Of the second steamship com
pany we visited we said we were Cana
dams, but the clerk demanded to see our
army discharge papers. We made some
excuse and left. The third place we
struck-a company with offices on Port
age avenue-we were more successful
They promised to get passports, and sure
enough they did, but we had to wait two
weeks for them"
BERGDOLL
SHOWS PASSPORTS.
Bergdol showed the correspondent two
British passports bearing photos of
himself and Stecher. BergdolTs pass
port was No. 64,7g3 and contained the
PoIIouyir1 inflammation.
"Name-George Charles Riggs. Esq, a
British subject.
Ages
cupation--Ag ricuturist.
'Born-At Milk River, Alberta"
Stecher's passport was numbered Ga
7S7 aud contained this description;
"Name-Frank jeremiah Johnson, Esq,
OF Winnipeg, a British subject.
"Age-40
"Occupa tion-A griculturist.
'Born-New Dayton, Alberta"
Bergdoll carefully put the passports
away and continued his narrative:
From winnipeg we went - Montreal
by rail There we had the passports
viewed by the Swedish, Swiss and Bel
gian cOnsuls.
From Montreal we went to Quebec
from which city we sailed for Europe
we landed ut Liverpool on July IS. From
Liverpool we went to London by train
and registered at the Strand Palace Ho-
tel. We we're there four days mean
time posing as British subjects, although
we were not reported to the police. We
listed the German and Dutch consulates
in London and on July % we crossed the
English channel on the steamer Orange
Nassau, landing at Flushing, Holland.
"At Flushing we took a train for the
German frontier, going to Oberhausen,
Frankfort, Heidelberg, and finally to
Eberbdch to. visit relatives Everything
was quiet until October when an Ameri-
can officer in Berlin representing Stecher
and myself as murderers, secured a tele-
graphic warrant from the German of
hcials at Berlin to have us arrested. We
did not know whom we had murdered,
nor did we know we had killed any one
and to tell the truth, neitheE- does any
body else. We got wind of the warrant
and went to Switzerland, where we re-
malned for two eeks.
Our layer succeeded in having the
warrant withdrawn and the German OF
icer who was responsible for its is-
suance dismissed for maxim out such a
document without sufficient evidence to
support it. We then returned to Eber-
bach and have been here ever since. Cob |
LEM headquarters of the American Army
of Occupation) has been sending spies. We
have talked with some of them. One spy
told ME they must get US before Presi- |
dent elect Harding was inaugurated. be- |
cause Mr. Harding WAS going to grant |
amnesty to all political offenders"
Stecher, who had been listening, broke
In: Zone agent told us he was going |
TO knock us on the head and carry rs |
over the border. But then he tried to get !
in our pay and thus carry water on both