Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1909 — ROOT AND KNOX WITNESSES [ARTICLE]

ROOT AND KNOX WITNESSES

Testify Today In Regard to Alleged Libel In Canal Articles. Washington. Jan. 22. —Secretary of State Root. Senator Knox and Assistant Attorney General Charles W. Russel will appear today before the federal grand jury investigating the alleged libelous articles in the New York World and the Indianapolis News, connecting the names of Charles P. Taft, Douglas Robinson and William Nelson Cromwell. Attorney-General Bonaparte conferred with President Roosevelt in regard to the statement which Bonaparte has announced he will issue regarding the case. This statement, it is now stated, wiH not be made until next week.