Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-31
ROOSEVELT EDITS TESTIMONY
ouA1TFIES STATEMENTS MADE
IN "FADs" CASE.
Put It Up to Loeb-Alteratlons
Made Before Trip to Africa
Begins.

| NEW YORK, March 31.-Arthur Knox
referee to take the testimony VI eA-
| President Roosevelt in the case of Peter
A. juicy, a photographer, against the
Town Topics Company, in connection
| with the publication Of "Fads ana
Fancies." yesterday filed in the county
clerks Office an amended transcript of the
ex-President's testimony
The testimony was taken at Oyster Bay
| March 20. Mr.. Knox was appointed for
the purpose because Mr.. Roosevelt was
about TO depart for his African trip and
| would not be within the jurisdiction OF
| the court when the case should come up
for trial.
| Roosevelt Edits Testimony.
March %. the day before Mr.. Roose-
welt sailed, Mr.. Knox took copy of the
| testimony 10 him at the office of the Out
| look and there asked hi milf he cared to
| make any correction in the deposition.
| Mr.. Roosevelt said he did, and in the
| following transcript of what he said on
| that occasion the parentheses indicate the
| changes he made. In the record nled
| these corrections are all made in the eX-
| Presidents manuscript. Mr.. Roosevelt
said:
| Eyes | desire TO say that Mr.. Loeb S
| EXPRESSION on pages % and 35 of the tes-
| tinony has come to me. He had assured
me that he had sent no such letter as
was attributed to him regarding 'Fads
and Fancies' As an actual fact it had
. naturally enough slipped his memory
| He then showed me the letter he had
actually written He said: 1t is one on
me- not I'm caught I am practically
| sure he never showed me ii until then
| Was the photograph produced in this
work by YOUR authority or consent:
| Il am not sufficiently familiar with the
| matrer to know if this answer is correct
not to my knowledge. May [ make an
explanation" l continually received pho
! tographs (of me sent 10 autograph and
return. Can l so on so as to make my
| position clear" AS i say, there are SO
many If I had seen any article was FOR
Town Topics Il would not have signed II,
butt in signing hundreds or ,etters pre-,
| pared for me II can't be absolutely surel
| that ! have not signed one taithough L
am very confident that never did,
Blame Put on Loeb.
After this article appeared tbut mol
before) Mr.. Loeb told me that he) had
had a correspondence with a man who
prepared 'Fads and Fancies. That was
done without my knowledge. For a long
/
about it. He did not remember it, and
assured me he had not written such an
| article.
| "A daughter-in-law of ex-senator Wade
| Hampton, with whom l was we'll ac-
| uuainted, called on me and asked me for
| a photograph. but said nothing about
| .Fads and Fancies.' If she had men,
toned 'Fads and Fancies' I would prob
ably not have given the photograph. and
| certainly not IL l had known it was con-
nected with Town Topics.
| AFTER it was announced on authority
! of Col Mann that Mrs. Hampton had OBJ
! tanned my photograph Mrs. Hampton
herself made statement that I had given
her the photograph. but without knowing
/ for what use tAfterward she wrote me
| that she had not got the photograph for
| .Fads and Fancies.' and expressed regret
| and sent a long explanation asking for
another photography She wrote me that
she had once stated that fact. and now
Wouldn't / give her one for 'Fads and
FanCieS.'"