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Show WEALTHY DODGER OF DRAFT LAW IS ! COURT MARTIALED ! NEW YORK, March 4. Grover Cleveland Berffdoll, a : wealthy yotmg- Philadelphia 1 resident who eluded federal , draft officials for nearly two years, faced a general court martial at Governor's island today. to-day. He is specifically charged with desertion under the fifty-eighth fifty-eighth article of war, Army officers of-ficers said the outcome of the trial will have an important bearing on 170,000 other draft dodging cases. .Harry Weinberger, who defended de-fended Emma Goldman, Alexander Alex-ander Berkman and other radicals, radi-cals, is counsel for the accused. |