National Affairs: Bergdoll

The War Department denied that it was implicated in any way with an incident which took place in Baden, Germany.

Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, millionaire American draft evader (who escaped in 1920 from Governor's Island by plying his guards with liquor), shot dead one man and wounded another when they attempted to seize him in his apartment at a hotel in Eberbach, Baden, Germany. Out side the hotel, in an old U. S. army car, waited Lieutenant Griffith, U. S. Army, and "Prince" Gargarin, a Russian. After the shooting a crowd menaced the two in the...

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