The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-05-30
DAMAGE CASE is
DRAWING TO END
oUsIN OF Ex-PResIDENT AID.
RS THAT HE HAS GENTLE
MANS WINE CELLAR.
OTHER WITNESSES ON STAND
Fhinston Newspaper Corresponds
Says He Never Detected odor
Liquor on Teddy's Breath Nor
~ Him intoxicated.

'
m1nesses for Col Roosevelt, including
relative. a former member OF the
Rough Rider regiment a former loco
motive fireman, newspaper man. a
Former judge, testified today in Col
hoosevelt's suit for libel against Geo
4 Newett. the Ishpeming newspaper
owner
) Each OF the witnesses asserted the
colonel was only moderate user Of
intoxicants.
The substance of the testimony Civ
en- by Philip Roosevelt a young man.
son Of the colonel's cousin; Charles
Wills Thompson, a New York news.
paper man; Andrew w. Abele. for
Iaer locomotive fireman: Edwin Em
erson, a Cuban Rough Rider cam
paigner. and A. n. Blair, a former
] common pleas Judge Of Ohio, was:
That during his political campaigns
lth the Rough Riders, Col Roosevelt
ank only Pack coffee or water, and
SSaeger liquor Of any kind.
That during hi spolitical campaigns
the colonel drank champagne only
occasionally and never to excess.
That while Col Roosevelt kept a
large and varied supply OF wines at
his home, he never INDUCED in them
irnmoderately.
He kept a regular gentleman's
cellar" Philip Roosevelt said.
Col. Roosevelt. as usual since the
beginning OF the hearing, listened
sith the keenest interest to the wit
sses denial that he frequently got
Junk" as charged in the editorial
published by the defendant.
Additional witnesses for the plain
tiff will be heard today. Tomorrow
memorial day) win be observed as
q holiday. Col Roosevelt has under
consideration a pressing invitation to
address the veterans.
Thompson on Stand.
Chas w. Thompson, Of New York,
for nine years a Washington cores.
pondent and since 1908 a political
writer for New York newspaper,
testified next
AS Washington correspondent"
he said, 4 used to go to the White
House to see Mr.. Roosevelt. / saw
him usually alone. sometimes in the
morning and sometimes in the after
noon. usually at his office. but some.
times when. in order to lose not
minute from his work, he received
visitors while lying in the barber
chair. ! never detected the ordor OF
liquor on his breath. never saw him
In the slightest degree under the in
fluence of liquor, and never saw his
manner in any way changed from its
ordinary one"
Ever go on any trips with him?p
4 was with him on his 11,000-mile
swing around the cigcIe last year
which lasted month.
With Him When Shot.
Il afterward Joined him at Mercy
hospital, Chicago, when he was shot,
stayed there until he went to Oyster
Bay, went there with him and stayed
until election. Two weeks after he
was shot in Milwaukee he went to
New York on two occasions to adj
dress large mass meetings, and
went with him and reported them"
On these trips did you see much
Of him?"
4 saw him constantly hours
OF the day and highland never saw
him take a drink or be affected by
liquor. Whenever he left the car
followed him"
Did you ever see him take a
drink9"
only at dinnerss of the Gridiron
club, when he had glass of cham
pagne in front of him. He would oc-
.easionaliy take sip from it, Nearly
al the.time. though, he was too busy
talking or itching the stunts per
formed by tM Gridironers.
Abele on the Satnd.