The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-29
NOT ONE DROP DID
HE EVER SWALLOW
(Conttnued from pase II

| CONTINUED from pasa l.,
eral reputation previously to the pub
!! LEGATION of the alleged libelous article
and evidence OF that nature will be
received.
The other question is whether, or
not, the defendant may show other
newspapers published similar charges
and may show that it was reported
that the plaintiff was guilty OF similar
offenses. The court is very well sat
listed that the defendant is not en-
titled to that testimony and no testi-
mony of that nature will be received"
Judge Richard c. Flanagan, arriv-
Ing in court an hour and a half be-
| fore the opening OF court today, shnt
himself in his chambers. A tip-toeing
bailfff warned away all disturbers. A
newspaper man broke in on the judge
and discovered his secret. The slim,
austere, clerical looking jurist was
reading with tremendous interest, a
dime novel full of blood and guns.
That's why he had retired to his
chambers. He didn't want to be dis.
| turbed.
That's all read" said he, rlaw
books and dime novels. like the
midwest kind, but it seems to me
dime novels have degenerated lately. ;"
The Judge grinned reflectively.
Maybe I've got dime novel blood
| in me-" he said, I've wanted to have
an aeroplane ever since they were
invented and maybe I'll get one l
hate to go slow In my automobile
| He resumed his book aloud :-"and
piercing him with his keen eyes,
Count De Cana tossed his revolver On
tuously.' he read. his proud lip curi.
ed upward In a sheer"
4 And there wasn't any disturbing
Judge Flanagan until court opened.
| Attorney w. S. Hill announced at
opening of court that presentation of
Colonel Roosevelt's evidence in CHER
would be completed today unless an
/ ather long squabble of attorneys In
| terfere.
The plaintiffs plan was to cut short
| the personal biographies which have
i taken up so much time with previous
4 witnesses. and get down quicker to
! the real question OF what the colonel
1 drinks.
Friday, Memorial Day, there will
/ be no court and the colonel has been
invited to the Northern penitentiary
/ by Warden Russell to see a ball game
| between the inmates. He also has
been asked to talk to the old soldiers.
i He may do both.
The task of squeezing out the tumul-
/ tuous mob that tries to cram it's way
into the courthouse is becoming des-
4 perate Side streets In all directions
are adorned each day with an ever.
increasing number of buckboards and
/ saddle horses and mules and buggies
j and automobiles that have borne folks
] from all parts of this mammoth
county to see the famous show.
Court officers this morning estab-
lished rule that only those bearing
passes signed by the sheriff could be
admitted
Offers of evidence are pouring into
attorneys from persons who can give
4 testimony. One telegram received by
the colonel last night from Hugh t.
Halbert of St Paul offering him a let
ter T. R. wrote to a Texas man at
the beginning of the Spanish war,
tells him to bring whiskey into camp
only for medicinal purposes.
4 The colonel is chief of staff, major
4 general, colonel captain and orderly
sergeant in the marshalling of his
evidence.
He says whose turn 1t is to testify
and what he says goes with his law
I yers. The colonel didn't want an I'M
/ broken succession of newspaper men
1 in the witness chair. He broke the
i parade with former Ambassador Rob
ert Bacon and Truman Newberry yes
/ terday. He'll break it again today,
likely with Clifford Pinchot and James
1 r. Garfield. But he won't have the
/ dignitaries Jumped together, either
Hence, more newspaper men.
Ask one of the colonel's lawyers
/ what the order Of succession will be
on the stand and the lawyer, regret
fully, doesn't know He really does
A mt know, for fact. until the colonel
tells him. When arguments are in
progress 1t clearly is one of the col
onel's chief regrets that he didn't fin,
ish the study of law, SO he could get
into the fray. Leaning Forward, his
hands gripping the arms Of his chair
his chin far out, he champs and fid
gets his chair from place to place un
til the debate is settled. Then he re
lakes into the auieter occupations OF
tapping his feet and Jerking his watch
chain, and denouncing cross-examina
lions to himself with vigorous shakes
OF his head and applauding good say