Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-31

the vigilance exercised by the secret
service men. The next witness was
James Sloan, a secret service man.
Sloan said he was now detailed to
the White House to look after the
personal safety of President Wilson,
just as he had been assigned to Colo
mel Roosevelt. At banquets away
from the White House, Sloan said he
always knew in advance what was to
be served for drinking. At Oyster
Bay in the summer he said he re-
NAMED outdoors at the dining-room
window when the President was at
dinner.
"Of your intimate observations of
what Mr.. ROOSEVELT ate and drank,
what would you say as to his sobriety
was he sober or drunk?"
Always sober"
Witness said because of the near
sightedness of the President he often
took his arm in walking.
WAS there any intemperance that
caused you to take his arm and as
sist him."
There was not"
Sloan said he accompanied the Pres
| ident to Mr.. Cannon's SEVENTEEN
birthday anniversary banquet, and on
that occasion the colonel drank moth
ing other than one glass of wine.
witness was given only brief cross
examination.
William P. Shauffele, a railroad Of
flcial testified, that in May, 1912, he
started from New York on a cam
paign trip with Col. Roosevelt.
How was your car stocked with
! liquors.
There was no liquor on the car"
Witness then told in detail various
stops Col. Roosevelt made while tour
ing Ohio. Throughout that trip he
said he never saw the Colonel drink
beer, wine or whiskey.
I'm all of Mr.. Roosevelt's speeches.
what can you say as to whether they
were incoherent or PECULIAR"
His speeches were those Of a sober
man."
/ The witness said when cross-eXas
amined he made the trip because of
his railroad knowledge of Ohio. He
then was excused.
Attorney Won Benschoten, for the
plaintiff. next read the deposition of
Albert Shaw, editor of the American
Revew Of Reviews. at New York.
| Mr.. Shaw became acquainted with
Colonel Roosevelt while the latter
was police commissioner of New
York. Witness told of freuent meet
ings with the plaintiff throughout his
career.
Deponent's observation was that
Colonel Roosevelt was a man of ex-
ceedingly temperate habits
The deposition was sprinkled with
objections, but Mr.. Andrews waived
most of these as Mr.. Benschoten
came to them Mr.. Shaw described
Colonel Roosevelt as a man of great
vitality of great industry and a
sound scheme of life. Mr. Shaw OBJ
served Colonel Roosevelt drinking tea
when stronger drinks were being
served to others present.
The next deposition was that of
George B. Cortelyou, who was secre-
tary of Commerce and Labor in the
Roosevelt administration and later
secretary of the Treasury. When
Mckinley was assassinated, Mr.. Cor
telyou became secretary to Mr..
Roosevelt. At all times, he said, he
was in close touch with the Presi-
dent on some campaign trips He
swore that the colonel was man of
abstemious habits.
The next deposition was that OF
Lawrence H. Graham, a newspaper
man. who testified to having known
Colonel Roosevelt at Montauk Point
after the war in Cuba, and later al
the White House and Oyster Bay
Like the others, Mr.. Graham consid-
cred the plaintiff a man of very alb.
stemious habits.
George H. Roosevelt, son of a cou-
sin to Colonel Roosevelt, testified hi
had been on riding. driving, walking
swimming and rowing trips with the
\ plaintiff On these trips Colone
Roosevelt invariably refused to take
liquor when offered by hosts, the wit
ness said.
81 have sometimes seen Colone
Roosevelt take light wine. but only OF
rare occasions. He never dranl
, whiskey," said the witness.
George M. Roosevelt's deposition
was ended when court adjourned unit
Events here prove that Theodor,
Roosevelt has lost none of his powe
as a drawing card. United State
Marshal Tyree, of West Virginia, ant
Jimmy Sloan have swung easily ant
naturally into their old jobs as secre
service men at Roosevelt's elbow
4 The town turns out every time tn
former President appears, and Tyre
and Sloan have to keep the way clea
for him. If they didn't he couldn'
go about at all. The colonel enjoys il
The mystery surrounding a compac
group of women who sat in the cour
4 balcony Thursday and Wednesda.
busily flashing crochet hooks am
a knitting needles has been solved.
They are members of the Busy BE
n Society of a Presbyterian ehurc
Il some ten miles back in the countr
4 and are mixing instruction with wor
q by driving into town with thei
Y crochet outfits every morning to hea
Il the trial and prepare for a churc
4 fair simultaneously
\ The entire visiting delegation. wit