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SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 23, F 922? 9
SCRAP OF PAPER MAY SEND THREE TO CHAIR
JACK BERGIN, DAREDEVIL
OF MOVIES, MURDERED IN
A STRANGE , LOVE DUEL
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<State Claims Alice Thornton Discarded Lover,
I ured Him To Cline Home, Whisper ed Jealous
Words In Cline’s Ear and Latter
Gun Handed By Scullian
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1 BY 808 DORMAN
HACKENSACK, N. J., Sept. 23.—From the fingers of dying
1> ' Bergen, daredevil of the movies, fell a crumpled piece of paper
J On it was scrawled: "George Cline killed me."
Will that torn and wrinkled piece of paper send the man to the
electric chair ?
Will th*- ramifications of the talc
of which those scrawled words were
only the beginning put a 19-year-oid
and a 21 -year-old boy behind the
cicab walls of a slate's prison for the
rest of their days’ .
•■(.inis” wiH be written to thr>
when George Cline, Chark
Scullion and Alite Thornton face a
in the courthouse here, charged
with murder. p
j|r; is the story of the killing o.
Jack Bergen
Chapter I.
On the night of Aug'. 24 a taxi
driver called to the Cline home
in Edgewater, N. J„ heard two
shots. Seared, he drove off and re
lumed with a policeman. On the
sidewalk law Bergen, bleeding from a
hudet' through the body. He was
"taken to th- station house. There
he pulled out a crumpled piece of
taper from his pocket and died.
On that oaper was scribbled:
‘•George Cline killed me. ’ <
Ciim v ipupcdiptely ta,kep into cn.*-
tody, siat'ed that during an argu
ment in which he accused Bergen of,
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'attacking hi .wife, the movie dare
devil started to light. Cline saV) ; he
-shot in self-defense.
Chapter 11.
The day following his arrest, dibit
changed his story.
It became a movie thriller.
Ke said that he had challenged!
Bergen to a duel, gave him a re-y
volver with which to defend himself
and then drove him upstairs to fight
it out. While turning oUt the light
so that the duel would take place
in the dark, Cline sard Bergen tried
to fire at him. The men grappled.
During the struggle, according t 0
Cline’s story, the revolver was dis
charged, and Bergen was shot.
He said* that the challenge to the
duel had been made after Bergen
had'declhred his love for Mrs. Cline
in her preserve and-that of her two
brothers, Charles’and Lawrence Scul
lion.
Chapter 111.
The prosecutor’s office continued
I its investigation and fouiyl that Miss
j Alice Thornton, an®attractive blond,
I<B years old, had been in the Cliric
home during the night of the shoot
ing. She was an acquaintance of
Bergen.
She admitted that it was she who
who had talked to Cline of his wife
and Bergen.
Peeved at the signs of affection
btatween the movie actor and Mrs.
Cline which she had witnessed, the
girl had broken with Bergen. Climj
had tried to bring them together.
At a dance she told him of his
friend’s perfidy.
“You can't trust your friend
Jack,’’ she said. The explanation ’
followed?
Cline took it calmly. He made no
move until that fatal night.
On ( line s invitation she visited
the Cline home to confront Bergen
with ' her story ©f his duplicity.
il Chapter IV . *
Detectives found that it was Chas.
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In movie duel tragedy: Alice > hornton (above); G.-orge Cline (left);
Mrs. Bergen (oenter), widow of slain man, and Jack Bergen.
Scullion who handed Cline t«he gun
with which he drove Bergen upstarrs.
Scullion’s indictment and arrest
quickly followed.
| Then came the arrest of Miss
! Thornton, charged with murder.
‘ Chapter V.
On Sept. 13, Cline, Scullion and
j Miss Thornton were arraigned before
Justice Parker in the Supreme court
at Hackensack. The:.-• all pleaded
« “not guilty.’’
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i , George Cline is accused of the
• 1 actual shooting. Miss Thorton with
-- having lured Bergen to the home of
Cline, and Scullion, as the man who,
; ai Cline Is request, went upstairs and
I obtained the pistol.
i Cline’s defense will be that Ber-
I' gen shot himself in the struggle.
. Chapter VI.
The last chapter will be written
! when the case comes to trial on
Oct. 9.
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i Americus Business Man Calls At
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“Did you ever stop to think what
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It was J. W. Lott, manager Amer
: icus Steam Vulcanizing company,
I Goodyear service station dealer,
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PAGE THREE
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“Missing Since Monday"—head-
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