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Show BbHUUOLL MONEY ; W ALL CONFISCATED ; CU8TODIAN SEIZES ALL PROPER. JBLil TY OF GOVER C. BERGDOLL ON Bf A ORDER OF PRES. HARDING j Trading With Enemy Aco Is Given Aa 'Hx Grounds for Action; Much Money i Hl And Land It Taken In Eastern -' HK Cities by Officials H Philadelphia. All tho property ot iBfc ' Gover C. Uergdoll, draft evader, who jSlB'' Is now In Germany, was seized hero JsHt Friday by Colonel Thomas W. Miller,. ' M alien property custodian for tho Unt- jiHE ed States government by order off flf President Harding. With It wns seized' Htt tho property of his mother, Mrs. Emma Hf C. llergdoll, and ot his brother, Erwlm Iht Hcrgdoll, now Bcrvlng a sentence in thoj fHfJ army disciplinary barracks at Leaven- JsB' worth, Kan., aa a draft evador. alflt'-' Tho action was taken under a nowi fHr ruling which pormlts tho government) j jBj- to tuke over tho property ot tlioso who iflft havo foresworn their allegiance. Mrs.' aHCT llergdoll was given fifteen days to ttfrat j IHV over account of all Grover'i property! i Wtm In this country. If this Is done, tkaj ' mgm remainder of the llergdoll property will! - ',Hr be returned to her. If It is not, the m- LR tire estate will remain In the liABtV jgMi of government officials and in addltlM Ht sho will be liable to Imprisonment fc HKsT' CMitcnpt. IHEV Tho valuo of tho seized Mtato ownsdJ , Hk by Grover Bergdoll is estimated ad I LK $83,220. j - dB llergdoll Is cut off absolutely fromi IsKfi his financial resources in this country. eKv If his mother trios to commlcato with LK him sho will mnko herself llablo to a 1 $flP Jail sentence. If he docs thnt, be! j ff must go to prison and servo his torn., , ISCf Every cent of expense connected wltlv , LHL tho seizure of the cstuto will como out jBK of Ilergdoll's pocket. DK Mrs, llergdoll mid her 88-year-old. IBB mother must vitcnto "Castle llergdoll," ' ilK 0 rover's home, from wlhch he escaped Hsk when brought hero to search for the sVsV' "burled pot of gold." flsMi Mrs, llergdoll cannot touch 11 cent LHi of tier own money or of Grover'n or jF Erwlu's until she has satisfied the gov- iLk.' eminent authorities of (he exact own- 'HRf ershlp, and until GroVer'u pososslon' K have been separated from tlioso ot 1 'Bt Erwln nnd her own she cannot cash n J fHK- check. j ,HH When Colonel Miller nnd n staff ot -tK assistants went to "Castlo Itergilnll" 1 'Ra Friday and served notice that her flST slacker sou's estate had been seized 'HE, nnd thnt she must vacate, slio only B2 said: 'j BS "Well, when dp I have to movcf , 1 Bft |