The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-06-05
ANOTHER WEEK FOR
ROOSEVELT CASE.
INDICATIONS ARE THAT 1T WILL
TAKE THAT TIME TO
FINISH.
"GENTLEMAN'S WINE CELLAR
Young Relative Thus Describes Col
oners Stock Of Home Liquors
Evidence Almost Re-
petition.

MAT4uctLe, MlCu, May ol-AILef
four days the court proceedings in the
libel suit of Theodore Roosevelt
against George A. Newett, an Ishpem-
ing editor, who charged the plaintiff
with drunkenness it is indicated that
another week would be consumed in
completing the case.
Court Has Holiday.
Court was adjourned over Memorial
day, the bailiff, at the conclusion of
Thursdays session, announcing this,
The announcement fell gratefully on
the ears of lawyers, bailiffs, witnesses
and others who have been under con.
siderable strain.
Attorneys Pound and Van Benscho-
ten for the plaintiff and Belden and
Andrews for the defendant, followed
the colonel's trail through nearly
every state of the Union, across the
Atlantic, through the Mediterranean
sea, the Suez canal to Africa; through
the wilds of that continent back to
tails of Europe and back to Oyster
Bay, in an investigation of his sobriety.
Repetition Of Testimony.
| Substantially, the testimony was a
repetition of that recorded at previous
sessions. The colonel does touch
liquor, but so rarely and so lightly
that he is, in the eyes of the wit
nesses, virtually a teetotaler.
| Those who testified were: Andrew
w. Adele, former railroad fireman
of Ohio; former Judge A. 2. Blair,
who disfranchized hundreds of Ohio
voters for selling votes when he was
on the bench; Charles Willis Thomp-
son, a New York newspaper man,
James r. Garfield, Clifford Pinchot;
Lawrence Abbot, owner of the maya
zine of which the plaintiff is one of
the editors; Edward Heller, naturalist
of the African hunting expedition; o.
K. Davis, secretary of the national
committee of the Progressive party;
Philip Roosevelt, whose father is a
! first cousin to the former president,
and Edwin Emerson, newspaper
man. who was field clerk to the col.
onel of the Rough Riders regiment.
Entire Life Covered.
Including witnesses already heard
and dispositions and witnesses to
come, the plaintiffs testimony as to
his sobriety will cover his life from
young manhood to the present time.
The record of the case will include
his conduct in public offices all the
way up to the White House, his ap-
pearance on public occasions and OH
travels aggregating many thousands of
miles, and the seclusion of his pri-
vate life, scarcely without break.
Characterization tested the mem
DRY of witnesses and tried to make
them show that there were real
grounds for their declarations of the
colonels sobriety. The newspaper
men were searched to show how in
innate they had been with the plain
tiff; the Rough Rider and the natural
list were asked how close their sleep
ing tents were to that of their chief,
the lawyers trying to discover if there
had not been periods when witnesses
could not have known whether the
plaintiff was drinking.
Roosevelt Wine Cellar.
Philip Roosevelt, the colonels young
cousin, was cross-examined by Attor-
ney Andrews, who inquired as to the
stock of liquors and wines kept at the
Roosevelt home.
"Champagne?" insinuated the law
yer.
II don't know, but l suppose so.'
"Brandy?"
Il don't know; l suppose so"
RED wine?"
Il suppose So"
Anrews continued to name over the
various kinds of wines and liquors, to
which Roosevelt returned the same
answer, concluding with Yes. Rhine
wine, everything you would find in q
gentleman's cellar"