Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-05-30
COMPLETE CASE
ONE MORE WEEK
IEDDN'S LIBEL SUIT LOOKS LIKE
long DRAWN OCT
AFFAIR.
ALMOST A TGETOThLER


MARQUETTE, Mich. May %
After cour DAYS Of court proceedings
in the libel suit of Theodore Roosc-
Welt against George a. Newett, an
lsrmening editor who charged the
plaintiff with drunkenness, II was in
dicatod tonight that another week
would be consumed in completing the
case. Tomorrow being Memorial
Day, court today was adjourned un-
til saturday morning
Colonel Roosevelt said he had no
plans for tomorrow except that he
would not participate in public func-
lions
Attorneys Pound and Won Bensch-
oten, for the plaintiff and Belden and
Andrews for the defendant, today
followed the colonies trail through
nearly every state in the union,
through the Mediterrean Sea, the
Sucz 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,
figuratively smelling his breath for
traces Of liquor.
Nearly Repetition.
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 todays wit
nesses, virtually a teetotaler, Those
who testified today were Andrew w.
Adele, q former railroad fireman OF
Ohio; former judge A. u. Blair, who
dsfranc hised hundreds of ONO voters
for selling votes when he was on the
bench; Chas Willis Thompson, a New
York newspaper man; Jas Il. Gar
field, clifford Pinchot, Lawrence Abb
bott, owner Of the magazine of which
the plaintiff is one OF the editors;
Edw. Heller, naturalist of the Afri-
can hunting expedition; O. Is. Davis.
secretary of the national committee
Of the progressive party; Phillip
Roosevelt, whose father is first
cousin TO the former president; and
Edwin Emerson, newspaper man
who was field clerk to the colonel in
the rough riders regiment,
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-
s,,h OF
travels and the secluslOn OF his pri-
vate life scarcey without break.
Sharp Cross-cXamination.
Cross examination today was alert
to test the memory of witnesses and
particularly to make them show that
there were real grounds for their
declarations of the colonels sobriety.
The newspaper men were searched
t. show how intimate they had been
with the plaintiff: the rough rider
and the naturalist were asked now
close their sleeping tents were to that
Of the colonel, the lawyers trying to
discover If there had not been peri
ods when witnesses could not have
known whether the plaintiff was
drinking.
Clifford Pinchot. former chief for
ester; Jas. X. Gerfield, former cabi-
net member, and young Philip Roose-
Welt, familiar with the democratic
habits Of the plaintiff, were the wit
nesses of greatest interest today
Philip Roosevelt said he was Il and
a newspaper rlan.
\ Gentlcman's supply.
Asked how long he had known
Colonel Roosevelt, he replied
We'll, he's known me all my ife."
In the midst of the litter which went
around the room, he correctct his
answer and said he had known the
colonel ever since he could remem-
Der. on cross examination. Attorney
Andrews inquired as TO the stock OF
liquors and wines kept at the Roose-
welt home.
"Champagne?" insinuated the law
yer.
don't know but suppose So"
Brandy"
Il don't know; I suppose So"
Andrews continued to name over
various kinds of wines and liquors,
to which Roosevelt returned the same
answer concluding with Eyes, Rhine
wine; everything YOU would find in
a gentleman's cellar"
Pinchot was anxious to explain
lust why he considered himself an
authority on the coloners habits. Tho
former chief forester then explained