New Britain herald., 1921-07-23
MAJOR CAMPBELLI IS
 HOT IN HIS DENIAL
Makes Own Explanation of Where
 He Got Money

Washington. July 23-Denyine
 emphatically that he had received $5,-
 900 from the Bergdoll family to aid
 in freeing Grover c. Bergdoll before
 court-martial Major Bruce R.
 Campbell, who appeared before the
 special House Investigating commit
 tee, at first brusquely refused to tell
 the committee how he had come into
 possession of the $6,5OO deposited
 with a New York brokerage firm for
 investment about the time of the
 Bergdoll trial.
 Under cross- after
 stoutly insisting that it was none of
 the publlc's business what his sources
 of income were but that he was pre- pared to show them a later time
 when he had received evidence which
 would corroborate his testimony, Major Campbell did finally explain how his income had been increased by an investment made in 1915-17 through the late Colonel Milton Young of Lexington, Ky. This ex-
 planation and the details surrounding it were given reluctantly, the witness I declaring that he did not wish to in- volve others in this miserable scan- | dal"
 After members of the committee l had driven him into a position where an elaboration upon his testimony ap- peared necessary, Major Campbell ex- plained that in 1917 he had more | than $17,00O on deposit in a bank and about $7,000 in money which he had kept out of the banks during the | war. He did not explain how he had come into possession of the entire | amount, nor disclose where the mon ey had been deposited.
 The money which represented his | deposits in 1920 with the New York brokerage firm, he said. came through $500 he had given Colonel Young for | investment in 1915. This netted him | $6,DO0. he said, and was sent to him | in 1917. This money, he said. was 1 not deposited in a bank and was not
 used by him until after the war when
 it was deposited with the New York
 firm for stock investment.
 | Names Father As Messenger. l The money which Colonel Young
 had earned upon his $500. the wit
 ness said. was brought to him while 1 he was at a training camp. The money Twas in an envelope and in l large bills Finally, when pressed | to reveal identity of the messenger, the witness exclaimed: ''Oh, hell, it was my father" He
 added that he had telegraphed his father to come to Washington to substantiate that fact and that he had been unwilling to go into this
 detail until he could present the witness.
 Major Campbell, after the com 1 mittee had been in executive session for half an hour, took the stand and at the outset vigorously denied Mrs. Emma c. BergdolPs charge that she had paid him s5,000 to aid in ob- | taining the release of her stacker l son. He said that the only money that had come to him during the l trial of Bergdoll or after was s10 or 1 SIP which D. Clarence Gibboney, one of the civilian attorneys for Bergdoll, had given him to pay for some cigars.
 Captain John T. Taylor of phila-
 delphia, as counsel for the commit tee examined Major Campbell and read him the testimony which Mrs. Bergdoll had given earlier in the week. He emphasized especially the charge that the witness demanded s100,0O0 to fix men higher up' in
 Washington and that he had re-
 ceived, according to Mrs. Bergdoll.
 $5.O0O following the court-martial trial.
 Tt is false in every particular" re-