Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1921-07-28

| Washington, July 22-Major Bru-
Ger Campbell of the United States ar
my told house investigating COM
mittee today that not single penny
of the sixty-five hundred dollars
placed by him with 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 Phfla-
delphia, that he had been paid five
thousand dollars to aid in obtaining
freedom for Grover Cleveland Berg
doll, her draft-dodging son, 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.
The Major, called here suddenly
without opportunity to examine the
charges against him, first declined to
testify at this time as to the source
of the fund. But, pressed hard by
the committee he turned about sud
denly and told Of the hidden treasure,
and a moment later related in detail
how five-hundred dollar invest
ment, placed with the late Milton
Young, of Lexington, Kentucky, be-
fore the war, grew to six thousand
dollars by 1917. 1t was the same
sum he said that was hidden away
and later shifted to Wall Street and
lost.
Campbell Is Angry
Processing ignorance as to how the
Young Investment had increased.
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turned back to him by man, still
living. but whose name he declined
to give. Then, in the midst of a
sharp exchange with "a committee
man, Campbell broke in, declaring,
t"Oh, he'll, It was my Tather:.'''s'-s 'f'
At this point the committee decid
ed to call the father, William r.
Campbell Of Lexington, Kentucky;
who was asked to come here at once.
The Major asserted that fright
full" injustice had been done him by
the committee in permitting Mrs
Bergdoll and representative Of the
brokers to testify when he was not
present. He protested vigorously
gence service, inspecting his bank
account at New York had not shown
that at prior date he had more
than five thousand dollars on deposit.
A telegram he said. had been sent the
bank, requesting that it verify his
statement to this effect. and to send
it's answer in care of Chairman
Peters.
= Money On Deposit
Major Campbell declared he and
his wife had seventeen thousand
dollars on deposit not counting the
sun lost on the market, but he de-
clined to mention the names Of banks
until he could get hold of his papers
enroute with his household effects
from Governors Island to Little Rock,
Arkansas
There we're moments when the
Major was unable to control his feel
ings when referring to his wife and
old father, and he banged the table
in anger as he denounced what he
said was the attempt of the Berg
dolls to blacken his name. AS mill
tary counsel for the Stacker he never
received dollar, he declared. The
only thing they ever gave him, he
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kerchiefs, bought at a soldiers fair
as trinkets, for his babies.
No Action by Canada
Ottawa, Ont, July 22- Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll, Philadelphia
draft dodger-evader, who escaped to
Germany is unlikely to be extradited
thru Canadian influence.
Officials Of the Canadian depart
ment Of Justice, who have been, in
vestigating the case because Of in
dications that Bergdoll escaped to
Germany by the E use of Canadian
passports. said today that they had
found that treaty of years standing
between Canada and Germany pre-
vented the extradition of natural
lied citizen of either country to the
other for trial. Bergdoll it is un-
derstood, has taken out citizenship
papers in Germany.