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Show ROOSEVELT WINS SUIT AGAINST MICHiSM EDITOR Man Who Charged Colonel With Drunkenness Fined Six Cents After Making Retraction In Court. Marquette, Mich. Colonel Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt won bis libel suit against George A. Newell, who charged tho colonel with drunkenness, drunken-ness, and having waived damages after the defendant had uttered a retraction, re-traction, the jury awarded the nominal nomi-nal damages of t cents provided In such cases by the law of Michigan. luh party to the suit will have to pay bis own expenses. The trial ended Saturday. Judge Flannlgan Instructed the Jury to bring In a verdict for the plaintiff, which they did without leaving leav-ing their seats. The eoloie-l left for Chicago and the east at 6:20 o'clock Saturday evening, Iohs tbaji two hours after the conclusion of the case. After hearing Mr. Newett's retraction retrac-tion of his charge, Volonel Roosevelt made fhe following statement to the court: "Your honor, la view of the statement state-ment of the defendant, I ask the court to instruct the jury that I desire de-sire only nominal: damages, I did not go Into this case for money, I did not go Into It for any vindicative purpose. I went into it, and as the court said, I made my reputation an Issue, because I wished once for all during my lifetime, thoroughly and comprehensively, to deal with these slanders so that never again will It be possible for any man In " good faith to repeat them. .1 have accomplished accom-plished my purpose and I am content" |