GERMANY: Bum

The Philadelphia draft-dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll continued to cool his heels in the jail at Mosbach, Germany, last week (TIME, Feb. 22).

The investigating magistrate, one Judge Trautwein, continued mum as to the exact nature of the offense which Bergdoll was alleged to have committed with a Heidelberg girl some three years ago. Said the cautious Judge: "It is just a simple case which concerns alleged offenses against the proprieties. All I can say is that Herr Bergdoll is being held in connection with certain complaints filed in behalf of some children,...

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