The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-05-29
Iurist Who DISTINGUISHED So
Many Voters Smelt No
Liquor on Teddy.
OTHERS ARE CERTAIN
That They Never Saw the Dis
tinguished Plaintiff the
Least Bit Drunk.


MARQUETTE Mich. May %
Charles willis Thompson, of New
York, for nine years Washington
correspondent and since 1908 po-
litical writer for a New York news
paper, testified this morning in the
Roosevelt suit.
'4As washington correspondent,
he said, II used TO go to the White
House to see MIR. Roosevelt. saw
him usually alone. Sometimes IN
the morning and sometimes in the
afternoon, usually in his office, but
sometimes when in order to lose not
a minute of his work he received Wis
dtors while in the barber chair.
never detected the odor of liquor on
his breath, never saw him in the
slightest degree under the influence
OF liquor and never saw his manner
in any way change from Its ordinary
one. was with him on his 11,OOo
mile swing around the circle last
year. afterward met him in Mercy
hospital in Chicago and stayed there
until he went to Oyster Bay; went
there with him and stayed there I'M
til election. j saw him constantly
all hours of the day and night ana
never saw him take a drink or be al
fected by liquor. Whenever he lelt
the car followed him"
Andrew wv. Adele, of Ironton, o.
a former coal miner and lateuRa To-
connective fireman, described trip
he made with Col. Roosevelt up
lookout Mountain in October, lSoiz.
The witness said he became &C
ouainted with the colonel at CON
yentIon of the brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen at Chattanooga.
Later he met him at Huntington
w Va.
Glow was it you came to go up
the mountain?"
The colonel was starting up ana
"a We were talking with him he SAID
boys. come along"
You walked about to the top OF
the mountain with him?"
Yes"
.'Did you observe whether or not
he had been drinking liquor?"
II knew he had not been drink
ing"
Adele said the colonel addressed
the locomotive diremen's convention
at Huntington and was not under the
influence of liquor. The witness said
that as a member of a reception
committee he accompanied the col
onel's train from Ironton, to Ports
mouth. o., and was in the colonefs
car from s a. m. to p. m. con
stantly.
1.what did the colonel drink in the
way Of liquor?"
Not drop"
"Did you personally hear every
speech the colonel made on that
day?''
YES
"Ddd he appear intoxicated at any
timer"
Absolutely not
A. z. Blair, OF Portsmouth, o.
former Judge of the common pleas
court who two years ago disfran-
chised several hundred voters in Al
ANS county for illegal voting, testi-
aed he first met Col. Roosevelt at
1ronton, O., last May. He accom-
panied the colonel to Portsmouth
on the special train on which the
colonel was travelling. At Ports
mouth and dronton, Mr.. Blair said
Col. Roosevelt spoke about thirty
minutes.
..How close to the colonel were
Won when you was on the train with
him?"
= was sitting at the breakfast ia
BILE with him talking"
From your personal contact Win
him, from his breath, from his &C.
tions, what do you say as to ColoneI
Roosevelt,s sobriety or ineoriety
There was nothing to indicate
that he had been drinking or that Ms
was in any condition other than 50
ber."
what was his physical condition
mean as to drinking, whether ne
was sober or drunk"
He was sober
When the witness was turned ove'
TO the defense Attorney Belden con
tented himself with showing tina
Judge Blair was not in the hal
where Roosevelt talked.
Phillip Roosevelt, son of w. r
roosevelt, who IS a first cousin .
the former president, having bee
sworn. said he was newspaper mai
OF New York City. He was on tn