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Show I -t ROOSEVELT LIBEL if ' CASE IS ALLURING , Thousands of Visitors Will ,f Crowd Into Marquette, Mich., for the Trial I . MARQUETTE, Mich., May 23. Thousands of visitors will crowd into . i this city next Monday to attend the ( trial of tho libel suit brought by for-mor for-mor Prosidcnt Theodoro Roosovolt against George A. Ncwctt, an Jslipom-Inp Jslipom-Inp publisher. It is certain, tho court houso will not hold thoso who -wish to bo present when Colonel Itoosovolt will attempt io" show thai Nowott was in ' ' error when ho published last October, in his weekly paper. Iron Oro, tho statement that "Roosevelt jots drunk and that not infrequently and all his intimates know it.1" Tho nnit brought by the fomior pres. idonl asks damages of $10,000 for libel. It ia estimated that the trial will con-t-umo two weeks, although tho largo number of depositions which will bo ' read and tbo nrrny of witnesses which will be examined make tho duration of tho trial uncertain. ILocnl attornoys estimate that a jury ma' bo secured in four days aB "tho ' case has not been tried in the news paper." When tho suit was filed Judge Flanuigan received pledges from both parties to tho suit to roirain from dis-, dis-, cussing tho case with nowspapor men, and to keep secret tho content of dep-, dep-, ositions and tho names of witnesses. The pledges havo been kept, and no outsider knows tho name ot a def enso witnefs except that of an Ohio newspaper news-paper man who was said to have pub-liiwed pub-liiwed his testiraonj'. It is thought that because of theso facts twelve impartial juror3 may bo immediately obtained. The former president is expected "hero Monday. Ho will bo the guest of a friend, Goorgo Shiras, famous as a photographor of wild animals. His attorneys are .T. Pound of Detroit. Mich., and W. S.Hill 1 of Marquette. Mr. Newott will be rep resented in court b' William P, Bel-den Bel-den of Ishpeming, and Horace Andrews An-drews of Cleveland, 0. Mr. Nowctt will claim that publication publica-tion of tho article was privileged as comment on a public character running for public office, and as a secondary t line of resistance he will attempt to prove that tho editorial spoke the truth. The defendant is a man of middle age, ion gray hair, a cropped mustache and what local description calls a "fighting" face. Ho is comfortably equipped with tho goods of tho world, although not rich. He has declined all contributions of money to assist in his defense, according to a statement made by his son today. |