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WAR TIME EXILE RETURNS TO U.S.A. WANTED FOR EVADING CONSCRIPTION. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. NEW YORK, May 26. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, America’s most notorious war time conscription dodger, returned after 19 years’ exile and was immediately lodged in Governor’s Island prison without setting foot on the mainland. Two months after he started serving a five-year sentence for conscription evasion he evaded the military guard and fled to Germany, where he had stayed ever since. He said he was homesick and wanted to see his wife and children and his mother. He asserted that he was a conscientious objector. ________——
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 May 1939, Page 7
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