Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-05-30
I. R. FIRST WITNESS
ROOSEVELT WILL co ON STAND
IN HIS LIBEL SUIT AGAINST
EDITOR NEWETT.
JURY is CHOSEN AND SWORN
Miners, Tesmsters, Farmers, Black
smiths, Firenlen and Woodmen
VIII Decide Upon by News
paper Man.

Marquette, Mich, May ga suit
involving allegations OF drunkenness
on the part Of Theodore Roosevelt,
former president of the United States,
will be heard here beginning Tuesday
by jury composed of four miners.
three teamsters, two farmers. one
blacksmith, one locomotive fireman
and one woodsman.
Colonel Roosevelt, who is suing
George A. Newett, an Ishpemiug news
paper publisher, for $4,000 damages
because OF an editorial charging him
with drunkenness, was the first wit
ness today.
The following is the Fist ot the jury
men:
Joseph Robear, Ishpeming. team
ster, age twenty-five, married; VIII
liam Pryor. Marquette. locomotive
fireman, age twenty-seven, married:
Robert Bruce OF Powell woodsman,
aged fiftyfeur. married; W. FE Mat
thews OF Gwyn, mining clerk, age
twenty five, married; William F'ass-
tender. Marquette. teamster, age TWEEN
weight, married; John Frederieksor,
Negaunee, miner. age thirty-one.
single; Gust Polcen OF Wells, married,
blacksmith, age thirtY-two; Williams
Sharp of Negaunee, born In England
age thirty-three, teamster, married:
John A. Johnson. farmer. MaUquette
county. age thirty-six, married: VIII
liam Garrow of Ely. miner. age TWEEN
ty-six, married; Andrew P. Johnson,
age sixty-eighth, miner. lives at Hum
boldt. married; Thomas Howard, age
fifty-two. farmer, of Chocolay. mar
ried
Lawyer James H Pound of Detroit,
the chief counsel for the prosecution,
was much more particular in his ex-
animation of jurors than w, P. Bel
den, the chief lawyer for the defense
and demanded the removal for cause
of five prospective jurors to the de-
lenses own. Lawyer Pounds favorite
two questions were:
Do you regard calling a man q
thief or a drunkard or uttering other
libel against him as joke or a seri.
Gus matter?" and IF you are selected
as a juror in this case will you permit
anyone to approach you and endeavor
to influence your verdict"
Lawyer BeldeE also had two favo-
rite questions. The first one was:
"Have you any prejudice against
newspaper. during a campaign, MAX
ing charges against the character or
habits OF q candidate for Office, pro-
vided that those charges are true?'
Lawyer Belden's second best question
was, will you be influenced by the
fact that one of the parties In this
suit is national figure and a former
president OF the United States, while
the other is. u country editor"
And during all the questioning Of
the veniremen, Colonel Roosevelt sat
quietly just inside the railing of the
court room between James A Garfield
and George A. Shiras OF Marquette,
who is entertaining Colonel Roose-
Welt at his home. The colonel showed
the deepest and most profound inter
est In the case and sometimes sat
leaning over In the direction of the
juror who was being examined and
with his eyes fixed sternly on the
mans face. Sometimes an answer by
a yenireman would cause him TO
whisper excitedly to Garfield or
Shiras. but he exchanged no words or
even look with his counsel Editor
Newett, who is a tall, spare man OF
possibly fifty-five years of age. with
iron gray hair and mustache and
rudy complexion and looking more
like colonel of cavalry than coun-
try editor, did not take the eager
interest In the trial displayed by the
colonel. but sat stiff and grim by the
side of his counsel.