MR ROOSEVELT'S LIBEL SUIT.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13735, 29 May 1913, Page 5

MR ROOSEVELT'S LIBEL SUIT.

EX-PRESIDENT GIVES EVIDENCE,

A VIRTUAL ABSTAINER

(Received May 28, 8 p.m.)

New York, May 28,

Ai Marquette, Michigan, Mr Roosevelt, giving evidence in his libel snit against Mr George Newott, a publisher, declared that he never touched liquor unless after great exposure during hunting expeditions, or on his physician's advice. He never drank a cocktail or a "highball" during his Kfe.

A huge crowd of visitors is thronging the city in order to hear the case. Mr Roosevelt sketched his career, and1 told of his hunting expeditions.

Medical witnesses asserted that it would be impossible for Mr Roosevelt to live his strenuous life if he dranlh It was likely that he would have died as the result of the attempted assassination if he had been a drinker.