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Some hundreds of curious-minded peasants streamed into the little town of Mosbach last week to attend the trial of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, famed Philadelphia draft dodger, who was arrested (TIME, Feb. 22) on a charge of having seduced, three years ago, Fraulein Leisel Schmidt, Heidelberg schoolgirl, then...
...testified that he had been engaged to the girl, three years ago, but had broken off the engagement when he found she was more enamored of a certain Heidelberg student. Fraulein Schmidt testified that her seduction by Bergdoll had taken place before their engagement. She was not, however, able to recall clearly the circumstances which she alleged and contradicted the testimony of her mother upon several points. Finally Professor Hans Gruhle, head of the Psychoanalytical Clinic of the University of Heidelberg, testified that he had examined the girl and found her "of subnormal mentality and untrustworthy." It was also considered...
...Harvard with next autumn have the honor of extending its hospitality to the sixth International Congress of Philosophy. Previous Congresses have been held at Paris (1900), Geneva (1904), Heidelberg (1908), Belogna (1911), and Naples (1924). The fifth Congress, which had been fully planned for London in 1915, was abandoned on account of the War, while the Naples Congress failed to secure a well-balanced representation. Hence the Congress next autumn will be not only the first congress of its kind ever held in America, but the first such congress since the War, in which will gather for friendly and helpful...
...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, girls and boys...
Last week Mr. Sachs achieved his ambition. He came forward with a girl who swore that famed Philadelphia draft-dodger Bergdoll committed an immoral act with her, in Heidelberg, some three years ago. Mr. Sachs openly and publicly exulted when slacker Bergdoll was clapped into jail at Mosbach, Germany, while the Mosbach police "investigated...