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wiywwi SB " paper man?" asked Newett's attor neys on cross-examination. "Since March," blushingly answer ed the witness. Thompson, a reporter for the New York Times, a paper unfavorable to the Colonel, told of the trip through Ohio, and denied Roosevelt had ever been intoxicated. Thompson also de nied the ex-president was intoxicated at the Gridiron Club dinner in Wash ington, which is one of the points on which Newett's charge is based. Thompson concluded his testimony with the statement that the Colonel aever uses profanity, and that "no man would ever dare to use an ob scene word In his presence." Andrew Abele, of Ironton, O., who was once a coal miner, and later a railroad man, testified he met the Colonel at a convention of the rafl oad brotherhood In Chattanooga, Tenh., in 1902. He also went with the Colonel on a short trip to several adjacent towns, where, receptions were held. Abele testified it was diffi cult to force a way through the crowd and that the Colonel had to be pushed. This was to contravert the expect ed testimony of the defense that It was necessary to hold the Colonel up because he was intoxicated. Abele produced a picture which showed the Colonel standing erect with his arm wrapped around a post. Witnesses declared the Colonel did not take a drink of any kind. This trip is expected to be one of the big features of the defense. Former Judge Blair aroused tre mendous Interest In the ''crowded courtroom. His wholesale barring of Adams county voters fro mthe right of suffrage for election bribery has made him as well known here as Roosevelt Blair told of his trip with Roose velt through Southern Ohio in the last campaign. "There was nothing to indicate the Colonel was intox icated of had been drinking,'? he said,-1 He was in good physical conditio and sober." Edwin Emerson, field secretary of Col. Roosevelt in Cuba, now a news paper man, testified to the Colonel's 'abstemiousness during the Cuban campaign. Emerson described the charge up San Juan Hill, though the defense made a strenuous effort to prevent it In a decision yesterday afternoon Judge Plannigan gave the defense the right to present practically all its evi dence bearing on Col. Roosevel's drinking habits. Only newspaper clippings, such as .Editor Newett's alleged libel, are barred. Newett's lawyers are -given the right to ask questions bearing on the Colonel's general reputation as to drink. The decision opens a broad avenue of defense to Newett Affidavits are not excluded. Roosevelt Is running his own trial. He seems to regret that he did not study law, so he could take an actual partjm the arguments, but he con sults his attorneys and gives them their orders before they turn on the oratory. The Colonel decides in what order the witnesses shall take the stand. The attorneys don't know whflrwill be next until they get a sign from T. R. He 1b mixing up newspaper men, politicians and doctors In send ing them to the stand. "That paper said all my intimates knew about my habits, and now I've got 'em here," said the Colonel dur ing recess. "But it's tough when a man gets shot up, has a wedding in his family and goes into a Uben suit, all in one year. "That bullet in Milwaukee cost me about $3,000, and. the wedding cost me about the same. I don't know how much I'm going to have to gay out on the score of this suit" There wfll be no court tomorrow, and the Colonel has been Invited to the penitentiary to see a ball game between the inmates. He has also