Norwich bulletin., 1913-05-30

NIdIQu6Iles MlCu.t Mdys -A0' ~1AS~A four days of court proceedings in the libel suit of Theodore Roosevelt against George A. Newett, an Ishpeming editor who charged the plaintiff with drunk enness, it was indicated tonight that another week would be consumed in completing the case.
 Tomorrow being Memorial day. the 'bailiff at the conclusion of today's pro- ceedfngs announced that court stood adjourned until nine o'clock Saturday morning. The announcement fell gratefully on the ears of lawyers, ball ifs, witnesses and others who nave been under considerable strain. Also there will be no session of court Sat urday.
 Colonel to SecIude Himself Today.
 Colonel Roosevelt said he had no plans tomorrow except that he would seclude himself from participating in public functions. He expressed regret that he could not address the veterans but took the position that as party to a suit pending. he ought not to take any action which might be construed as unethical.
 Attorneys Pound and Van Benscho- ten for the plaintiff, and Belden An drews for the defendant, today follow ed the colonePs trail through nearly every state in the union, across the At lantic, through the Mediterranean Sea, the Suez canal to Africa, through the wilds of that continent back to Khar- toum through some of the capitals of Europe and back to Oyster Bay figur- atively smelling his breath for traces of liquor.
 Virtually a TeetotaIer."
 Substantially the testimony was a repetition of that recorded at pre- vious sessions: the colonel does touch liquor, but so rarely and so lightly that he is. in the eyes of today's witnesses, virtually a teetotaler.
 Those who testified today were An drew w. Abele, a former railroad fire man of Ohio, former Judge A. z. Blair, who disfranchised hundreds of Ohio voters for selling votes when lie was on the bench; Charles Willis Thomp- son. a newspaper man; James A. Gar field, Clifford Pinchot, Lawrence Ab- bolt. owner of the magazine of which the plaintiff is one of the editors Ed- ward Heller, naturalist, of the African hunting expedition: O. K Davis. sec Tetary of the national committee of the progressive party; Philip Roose- welt, whose father is a first cousin to the former president: Edwin Emerson, a newspaper man. who was field clerk to the colonel of the Rough Rider reg iment.
 Life from Young Manhood Covered.
 Including witnesses already heard and dispositions and witnesses to come, the plaintiffs testimony as to his so- briety will cover his fife from young manhood to the present time. The rec ord of the case will include his con- duct in public. offices all the way up to the White House, his appearance on public occasions and on travels ag- gregating many thousands of miles and tho GnoIuciOn Of his rTivata lffe Goar0a- ly without break
 Cross examination today was alert to the memory of witnesses and par ticularly to make them show that there were real grounds for their declara- tions of the coloneTs sobriety. The neWspa apers were searched to show how intimate they had been with the plain tiff the rough rider and the natur- alist 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.
 Domestic Habits Barred
 An instance was the cross -examina- ton of Heller, who had never seen the colonel take a drink, or show signs of having taken any intoxicaNnt. At torney Andrews elicited that Heller had been i'll in Africa; that the col onel had gone on side trips after game or otherwise when witness was not along and that the witness was very busy taking care of the skins of ani- mals. It was brought out that the ex- petition took several hundred speci- mems of big game and two or three times that number of birds and small CT animals. to care for which Heller ! had to have assistance. Pinchot former chief forester; Gar ! field, former cabinet member, and Young Philip Roosevelt familiar with the domestic habits of the plaintiff were the witnesses of greatest inter- est today
 Philip Roosevelt was asked how old { he was and replied Twenty What business are you in ?" in- quired Attorney Pound.
 I'm a newspaper man." answered the witness.
 Since when?"
 Since last March"
 Liquors at RooseveIt's Home.
 He testified also that he took the four years course at Harvard in three years. Asked how long he had known | Colonel Roosevelt, he replied: Well he's known me all his life" Tn the midst of the litter which went around the room. he corrected his answer and said he had known the colonel ever 1 since he could remember. On cross examination. Attorney Andrews in quired as to the stock of liquors and 1 wines kept at the Roosevelt home Champagne insinuated the law | yer.
 q don't know. but I suppose so." Brandy ?"
 T don't know; I suppose so." "Red wine?''
 T suppose so."
 Andrews continued to name over various kinds of wines and liquors tc which Roosevelt made the same> an swer, concluding with Yes, Rhine
 wine; everything you would find in 2 gentleman's cellar"
 Pinehot Studied Rooseveit's Habits. Pinchot was anxious to explain just why he considered himself an author. ity on the colenels habits and Attor- n4y Pound accordingly framed the proper question. The former chief forester then ex- plained that he was student of eff1 ciency. and that finding Colonel Roose- 1 welt to be a sample of that quality studied him to discover whence il came. To this purpose he observed the coIoneFs eating habits, what he drank. how and what he read. how