The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-30
FATHER FINDS
 BURIED VETERAN IN PENITENTIARY
Long List of Crime Laid To Wisconsin
 Youth

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 29.-Robert St. Clair, a convict in the federal pris- on at Atlanta, Ga, has been identified as John Bergeron. of Minasha, Wiscon- sin who was listed by the War Depart Inent as killed in action in France. it was learned here tonight upon the re- turn of F. w. Bergeron, his father. The body of soldier identified as that of Bergeror was returned to this coun- try and now rests in cemetery in Wis consin.
 St. Clair, or Bergeron. was indicted in the name of Robert St. Clair, alias Dr. Robert E. Frank. alias Robert E. Taylor, for transporting a stolen auto mobile from one state to another. He figured prominently ill the news at the time of his arrest because was said he was wanted in Wisconsin and in Los Angeles under the name of Dr. Robert Frank.
 As a result Of investigation by agents of the Departmen of Justice, 1t has de- veloped that officers in various places in the middle west, southwest and in California desired to question him in connection with alleged Offenses com mitted in those sections. Among the things under investigation are charges of multiple marriages in California.
 Transported Car
 Bergeron, about 30 years of age, was indicted by the federal grand jury here after his arrest in New Iberia, La., for having take a stolen car to that place from Jackson, Miss. He pleaded guilty and was given a sentence of eighteen months.
 His pardon or release from prison on parole is being sought on the ground that as a war casualty his experience in alleged criminality were those of a mental incompetent. Federal officials here with whom his father conferred said efforts to that end already have heen initiated through a request to the War Department to furnish fingerprint records and other matter to substanti- ate the Identification.
 Bergeron enlisted in the army at Minasha in April, 1917, and served near ly a year overseas. He was gassed or wounded in the fighting of July, 1918, and wrote letter to his parents from an American hospital in France. It was dated July 25, 1918. A short time later his parents received formal notifi- cation from the War Department that their son had been killed in action July Is. 1918. When a casket bearing it as their own and it was laid away. The Identification tag was that of John Bergeron.
 Change Is Seen
 The elder Bergeron says there is no mistake about the Identification all though his boy has changed" and that when he recovered his memory some time ago he went back to Minasha and saw 'his own" grave. talked with form CT acquaintances and even with his own mother in the shadow of porch at twilight He was quoted has having said he was not recognized by them and that they told nim John BergerOn had been killed in France and was bu- ried as a war hero in his native state.
 Mrs. J. Frank Oldham of this city. a Gold Star mother social worker and formerly chairman of the American Le- zion auxiliary disqualification committee declined tonight to give details of Der gerOn's history when he was here sev- eral months ago, a disabled ex-servic, man suffering from an abscessed lhng, end confided to her his experiences She does not feel at liberty to make known his affairs.