Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-20
BIackmaiI Char9
 By Mrs. BergdOR
Claims She Paid $5, ,0OO to Ma for Bruce R. Campbell For Use Among "the Higher Ups"

1.n.i,;,.r+on July 19 The direct thst five thousand dollars was najd to Major Bruce K. Campbell, an ot- ticar of the army, for use among the hieher IDS" to obtain ,tae release ol Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, her slacker son. was made today by Mrs Emma V Bergdon, of Philadelphia to mousse III yestigating committee
 Having heard the charge the commit tee developed that on Feoruary IV' !aSI I year. about ten days after Mrs. BersooA s,,ore the money was paid, Campbell de nos,ted s4,50O with Wasserman Brotners' r1embers of tre New York stock eX- change, and s2,0O0 more on March > all of which and more was wiped out pE the end of June in market tracing.
 The money was deposited to the joint account of the major and Laura H' Campbell, supposedly his wife.
 Major Campbell, WHO enlisted as an army nrivate in 1901 and served over seas with the Rainbow division, and who was BergdoIs counsel in court-martlal proceedings, was not present at today hearing. He previously had testlneo that he did not get one dollar or berg dolls money. but at the directloR oI lhe committee the war department has order- ed him here from Camp Pike, Ark, to answer the charge.
 Called back to testify after govern ment agents had picked up the Campbell clue in a renewed effort to fix responssoil- ity for Bergdoll's escape while hunting for a buried tub of gold, Mrs. Bergdol stood firmly on her constitutional rlsh' and refused to answer questions. Bul when assured by Chairman Peters ol immunity from prosecution she began hel story declaring Campbell first demanded one hundred dollars.
 Told him to go to hell" she explained 'He had tortured me into believing thai my boy would be shot unless the higher ups were paid"
 Questioned by John H. Sherburne, o Boston the committee counsel Mrs. Berg doll step by step told how she had talk en the money pinned to her waist t( Governors Island, turned it over t' Grover, who met the major under the ias pole at the reser 'ation and delivered it Later, she swore, Campbell told her h' had received the money from Grover bu that under the law, he could keep no par of it for himself and had given it to al officer whose name she could not re member"
 i It was her understanding she testified that it was to go eventually to membe 1 of the court trying her son for evadini : the draft
 1 Percuaded by Representative Luhrinl 1 (Rep., Ind.) Mrs. Bergdoll said she ha not told the committee of the transac i tion beforn because she had forgotten ii 1 Grover, sho added, recently urged her t ] tell of it.
 Have you still got that one aundre l and fifty thousand dollars in gol buried?" Mir Luhring shouted. i T refuse to answer such a question, Mrs. Bergdoll snapped
 1 Presenting a stack of big ledged sheets
 F. Houlahan, bcokkeeper for Wasser
 man Brothers, told the committee the re
 cord shows that Campbsu had an ac
 count with the firm in 1910 whica ha
 been closed to re-opening the larger ac
 count in 1920. Of these seven thousan five hundred dollars placed with tn firm last year Ill was paid out, wit S415 still due by Campbell.
 While stationed at Governors Island Campbell according to army intelligenc officers, maintained an account in a Ne
 York bank, depositing only his monthl pay check against which he drew Tn
 monthly balances, 1t was stated some times averaged as low as s7 and neve higher than $16.40.