The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1913-06-06
ANOTHER WEEK FOR
ROOSEVELT CASE
INDICATIONS ARE THAT 1T WILL
TAKE THAT TIME TO
FINISH.
"GENTLEMAN'S WINE CELLAR"
Young Relative Thus Describes Col
oneI's Stock Of Home Liquors
Evidence Almost Re
petition.

Marquette, Mich, May 31.-After
four days the court proceedings in the
libel suit of Theodore Roosevelt
against George A. Newett an Ishpem-
ing editor, who charged the plaintiff
with drunkenness, it is indicated that
another week would be consumed in
completing the case.
Court Has Holiday.
Court was adjourned over Memorial
day, the bailin, at the conclusion of
Thursdays session, announcing this.
The announcement fell gratefully on
the ears of lawyers, bailiffs, witnesses
and others who have been under con-
siderable strain.
Attorneys Pound and Van Benscho-
ten for the plaintiff and Belden and
Andrews for the defendant, followed
the colonels trail through nearly
every state of the Union, across the
Atlantic, through the Mediterranean
sea, the Suez canal to Africa; through
the wilds Of that continent back to
Khartoum, through some of the CAPT
Bay, in an investigation of his sobriety.
Repetition of Testimony.
Substantially, the testimony was a
repetition of that recorded at previous
sessions. The colonel does touch
liquor, but SO rarely and so lightly
that he is, in the eyes of the wit
nesses, virtually a teetotaler.
Those who testified were: Andrew
w. Adele, a former railroad fireman
of Ohio; former Judge A. T. Blair,
who disfranchized hundreds OF Ohio
voters for selling votes when he was
on the bench; Charles Willis Thomp-
son, a New York newspaper man,
James r. Garfield, Clifford Pinchot;
Lawrence Abbot, owner of the maga-
zine of which the plaintiff is one of
the editors Edward Heller, naturalist
of the African hunting expedition; O.
K. Davis, secretary Of the national
committee of the Progressive party;
Philip Roosevelt, whose father is a
first cousin to the former president,
and Edwin Emerson, newspaper
man, who was field clerk to the col
onel Of the Rough Riders regiment
Entire Life Covered.
Including witnesses already heard
and depositions and witnesses to
come. the plaintiffs testimony as to
his sobriety will cover his life from
young manhood to the present time.
M hn wi i'm 10
his conduct in public Offices all the
way up to the White House, his ap-
pearance on public occasions and on
travels aggregating many thousands of
miles, and the seclusion of his pri-
vate life, scarcely without a break.
Cross-examination tested the mem
ory of witnesses and tried to make
them show that there were real
grounds for their declarations of the
coloners sobriety. The newspaper
men were searched to show how in
innate they had been with the plain
tiff; the Rough Rider and the natural
list 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.
Roosevelt Wine Cellar.
Philip Roosevelt. the colonel's young
cousin, was cross-examined by Attor-
ney Andrews, who inquired as to the
stock of liquors and wines kept at the
Roosevelt home.
Champagne" insinuated the law
yer.
II don't know, but | suppose So"
Brandy"
II don't know; / suppose So"
RED wine?"
IL suppose So"
Andrews continued to name over the
various kinds of wines and liquors, to
which Roosevelt returned the same
answer, concluding with Yes. Rhine
wine. everything you would find in a
gentleman's cellar"
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