The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-06-06
ROOSEVELT CASE
IS COMPROMISED
EDITOR NEWETT WlTEDRAWS
CHARGE OF PAPER AND THE
COLONEL is INDICATED.
TESTIMONY PROVES S0BniETY
Of Court 20 Roosevclt-Defense
Unable to Find Witnesses
Vino Saw Teddy Drunk.

Marquette, Mich, June 3.-Theodore
Roosevelt has won his vindication. He
has proved he is not a drunkard.
More than that, he has proved as
nearly as a man may dc by his init
mates of a lifetime that he has never
even been slightly under the influence
Of liquor and that he is as abstemious
as a man may be and still drink alco-
holic liquid. His libel suit against
George A. Newett Of Ishpeming ended
abruptly.
Charge Is Taken Back.
Newett surrendered and withdrew
the charge of his paper hat Roose-
Welt gets drunk and that not infre-
quently.'
In a statement read in open court,
he admitted he had combed the coun-
try but had found not one single wit
ness who could testify he had seen
Colonel Roosevelt take liquor to eX-
cess. To all intents and purposes he
threw himself upon RoOsevelt's mercy.
And then Roosevelt, unwilling to as
sess upon Newett the heavy damages
he could have claimed, arose in court
and declared he had achieved his OBJ
Jet, disproved the tale that did him
such injury in the last campaign n
asked the court to direct a verdict in
his favor for nominal damages only
which, in Michigan, means E cents.
The & cents were paid and the col
onel will settle his own costs OF Gloss
to $4,000.
Refuses to DivuIge Intent.
Somebody asked the colonel later
what he would do with the 6 cents. He
threw back his head and laughed a
hearty gGffaw, but refused to reveal
his intent with respect to the nickel
and the penny he had accepted.
AS a sort of climax TO his case, The
odore Roosevelt brought into court
Saturday the four men who have been
closer to him than nyone that lives.
aside from his Wife and children, to
testify that he had never taken liquor
to excess.
CoIoneI's Closing Witnesses.
w. Emlin Roosevelt, his cousin n
lifelong chum; Frank Tyree and
James Sloan. the secret service men.
who spena all their waking hours with
him while he was president and slept
at his door at night: William Loeb.
Jr., the colonels private secretary
while he was governor and president,
all mounted the stand and swore the
c%olonel's use of strong drink comes
close to total abstinence.
Tyree, who guarded his door during
the ten holly exciting days of the Chi
cago national convention last year,
swore that in that time no drink but
milk entered the colonels rooms.
W. p. Shaufele OF Cleveland, the
railroad traffic manager who routed
and Travelled with the %colonel's cam
paign train in 1912, also testified that
Roosevelt tasted no more than a sin
gle glass of mildly alcoholic drink on
any one occasion.
Dispositions by George II. Roose-
welt, cousin once removed to the plain
tiff: DR.. Albert Shaw, editor of the Re-
view of Reviews; George Il. Cortelvou.
president of the Consolidated Gas cor
poration of New York and former sec
rotary to President Roosevelt, and
Alexander Graham, newspaper CORES
pondent, We're read.
All testified to the c%olonels strict
%sobriety.
Other dispositions from Admiral
George Dewey, DIR. Edgar A. Mearns
and William b. Dulaney. the %colonel's
barber while he was president, were
read at the afternoon session.