Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-05-30
Trial Of Libel Suit Against
Michigan Editor Is Narration
Of CoIoneI's Habits for Many.
Years Past
WITNESSES SWEAR AS
TO ABSOLUTE S0BRlsFY
indications Are That Case
VIII Not Be Given 10 jury
fol at Least a Week md
Perhaps Longer,

isY Aorsins 4ouansl srteis1 etsstp niasi
Marquette. Mich. May .9.- After
four days of court proceedings in tn
fllei miR Of Theodore Roosevelt
AGAINST George A. Ncwett an ish-
penlng editor who charged the
plaintiff with drunkenness, "a was I'M
dicatcd tonight TINT another week
would be consumed In completing the
ease.
Tomorrow being Memorial day. me
banin mt the conclusion OF todaN's
$, .sion. announced that court stood
adjourned until O'clock saturday
mornms Attorneys Pound and l'en-
schoten. for The plaintiff, ANA bclden
and Andrews for the defendant, lodny
followed the coloncfs trail through
nourl, every state in the union, ucfuss
the Atlantic through The Meditrffn-
mean SOFA. the sucz cnnul To Africa,
through the vilds eff that continent
back 10 khartoum through some of
the capitals of Europe and hnck 90
oNster nay. figufatiNely smelling hir
NNNNAAN W. NiHhN 500 tf'N''f
substantially. the testimony was o.
repetition of that recorded nc previous
sessions. that the colonel does touch
liquor but So rarely and so lightly
that ho "a. iu the eyes of today's Wit
uo-sos. virtually tcetoler
rho.o who testified toduy wrr, An-
drew ". Nbelc. former rliltoad
fireman uf ohio. forucr Judge \. =.
blair. who disfranchlscd hundreds ot
ohio voters for selliuE votes when ne
was ON the bench Charles WINS
Thompson. i Ncw YORK neWspaper-
man. Jnmes H. Garfield Lyman
Albott owrer of the magazine OF
/ which the plaintiff is one of the edi-
tors. Edward Heller. naturalist Of the
African hunting expeditions o. *.
Davis. secretary Of the national eon-
mittco OF the progressive purity Phll-
IN Roosevelt. whose father - ilrht
cousin to the former president Ed
ward Emerson. newspaper nhn, who
was field clerk to tho colonel OF inc
Rough rider regiment. ana Hifford
Pinchot.
Including witnesses alrcody heard
ana dispositions and witnesses 70
come. the plaintiffs testimony as To
his sobrIotv will cover his iife from
,onna manhood to the present time
The record of the case viii inclldt
his conduct IN public office All the
wav up 10 the White House, his ap-
poaranee on public occasions and on
travels aggrcgating many thousands
Of miles, and the secusion Of MS prl-
vatc life. scarcely without a break.
Cross. examination today was alcr'
to test the memory Of witnesses ant
particularly 10 make them show thai
4 there were real grounds for their dee
lurationa of the coloncl's sobricty. The
newspaper men woro searched 20 show
z how intimate they had been with lh'
plaintiff: the rough rider and the nat.
uralst were asked how close thch
sleeping tents were 10 that OF thcll
chief, the lawyers trying to discover
IL there had not been periods when
witnesses could not have known
whether the plaintiff was drinking
An instance was the cross-eXnmina.
tion Of Heller. who had never seer
the colonel take % drink or show sisni
Of having takon any intoSicnnt Attor.
ney Andrews elected that Heller bad
been m in Africa. that the c0Ione
had gone on side trips after game OF
otherwise when the witness was moi
along. ana that The witness was vof'
busy taking care Of the skins Of ami
mails.
PinchOt, former chief forester Gar.
field former cabinet member ant
Young phHp Roosevelt familiar with
the domestic habits Of the plaintiff
were the witnesses Of greater interos
today.
Phiup Roosevelt was asked how ole
he was and replied, "2l'
"What business are YOU in2' inquir.
cd Mr.. pound
"rm newspaper man answered
the witness
"sincc whons'
Since last March.
Pinchot was anxious to explair
iGst why he considered himself AZ
itilnNtitA oh lH' 'Vlhh'l il"Nitaf "h'
Attorney Pound accordingly framed
tie proper questions The former
chief forester then explained that h'
was student Of efficiency, aud that
finding Colonel Roosevelt To be q
sample of that quality. studied hin
to discover whence II came. 70 thi'
purpose he observed the coionel's eat.
ing habits. what he drank, hOW and
what he read how he exercised, how
h transacted business in short eS.
ciy detail which might further tht
study. He felt qualified therefore, e
declare that the plaintiff was a mar
Of unusually abstemious habits.
Like Garfield and like the neWspa
per man Thompson, he declared thai
.t .s.t.,,nl gnuld upNrr have noi