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Show SLEUTHS AFTER BERGDOLL GET TERMS IK JUL Neuf Given 1$ Months and Zimmer Half Year As T 1 . -unisnmeni M08BA6H, Riden. March 23. Carl Neuf -ind Prani Jiniroer. American detectives, have been sentenced tn terms In prison in criminal court here for "lllejral assumption of powyr" in nttemptlnsr to arrest and ahduet r,ro-ver r,ro-ver C. Bei-gdoll. American draft evadsr, In lOherhach last January. Xenf. acalnsi whom n charrre of "Inflicting "In-flicting bodily Injury" has been preferred, pre-ferred, wan sentenced to Jail for fifteen fif-teen months while Simmer's term in prison was fixed at six months The I additional charge affaimit Neuf arose from a bullet w-ound nuffered by a young woman when a revolver was fired durlnp the attempted abduction. GERM INS SENTENCI i Four Germans who were tried as accomplices of the Americans were found (rullty and sent to Jail for terms' varying from five to 11 months. It was shown one had driven the detectives' de-tectives' car and that the other tlirce had accompanied the two Americans on their trip to apprehend Bersrdoll In Eberbach. In paaslnjf sentence of Xcuf. the German court declared the American detective was aware that aside from the charge of desertion no other indictment in-dictment was pending against Berg-doll, Berg-doll, but that nevertheless the detective detec-tive had atiempted to arrest Berg-j doll without the cooperation of thci German police and take him into tiio occupied area, although Neuf WMJB aware that such a procedure const 1- tuted an Illegal assumption of authority au-thority m unoccupied Germany. The constituted "negligent Infliction of bodily Injury." STIH I.R SDN MM! The penalty upon Neuf waa fixed at fifteen months In Jail, the court said, because the detective's conduct Oonatltuted "a gross breach of the law and an Invasion of the lights of the German authorities." The other defendants were guilty, tho court ruled, because they knew their acts were not permissible and wire punishable under the criminal code The six defendants were assessed the costs of the I rial. Bach of them was credited on his Jull sentence with eight weeks of preliminary confinement confine-ment LEGION 1CT8 WASHINGTON. MarCD l-3 Request Re-quest that (he war department take "prompt and decisive' steps to secure the return from Germany of Grover C. Bergdoll wealthy draft .vnder. Is mnde by the American LcgUm's national na-tional legislative committee in u let-tetr let-tetr to Secretary Weeks, made public by the committee. The letter, sent at the direction uf National Com-. Com-. mander Galbraltb. and the letclon's I executive committee, also requests tho new administration to secure the release re-lease front a German Jail of the two American army sergeants. Zimmer and Neuf. arrested when they attempted attempt-ed to capture Bergdoll. |