Show KIDNAPER IN I BERGDOll CASE GOES UN ON TRIAl Intense Public Interest Manifested in Trial o of I American Lieutenant on Assault Charges MOSBACH Germany Dec 6 By Dy A. A P P. Lieutenant Lieutenant Corliss Hooven Griffis of Hamilton Ohio former I American army officer was placed I Ion Ion on trial here today for the part parthe i he is alleged to have taken with several others in the attempt last Jast summer at Eberbach to kidnap I Grover Cleveland Bergdoll AmerIcan American Ameri Amen can draft evader The charges against him are unlawful assumption assumption tion of authority assault and I battery battery battery bat bat- tery breach of the peace and com corn The case has attracted intense I Interest and strong forces of police po- po po po-l lice were about the court building i today keenly scrutinizing all who entered Three Interpreters English En- En j gUsh glish French and Russian Russian were I I present to assist assis the court count in taking taking tak- tak tak-I tak ing the evidence Maxwell K IC I Moorehead of Pitts burg the i American n consul at Stuttgart Is I here looking after the the Interests of I Griffis and Eugene Victor Nelson of Chicago the other Ameri American an I under arrest anresS in connection with I I the case ase The counsel for the defense are j 1 Herr Hanauer a a. local attorney and Herr of oC Eberbach while the states state's case is in the hands of II Public Prosecutor SchUmm Attorney Attorney Attorney At- At AtI j I j torney Diefenbach of oC Stuttgart I Iwas was another nother lawyer expected to appear for the defense but it was I announced before the proceedings began today that he had thrown i I up his brief 1 Lieutenant Griffis testified he I I had returned to France after the war voluntarily on a mission from the American legion to look after the military cemeteries He denied having belonged to the military police Griffis' Griffis evidence gave pave promise of ot being protracted as every question put by Kurzmann the ng Judge with whom four associates were on oa the bench had to be t 1 ii J |