Morning Oregonian., December 09, 1919, Page 9, Image 9

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DEFENDS PRACTICES
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DECEMBER 9, 1919.
Alzamon I. Lucas Center of
Interest in Court.
$50,000 DAMAGES SOUGHT
Trial of Suit Against Evening Tele
gram for Alleged Libel ow On
Before Judge Tucker.
For an entire day, under a fire of
cross-examination which will be re
sumed this morning. Alzamon I.
Lucas, self-styled healer, psychologist
and trouble specialist, was the cen
ter of interest in the courtroom of
Circuit Judge Tucker yesterday to a
crowd which filled all available seats
and blocked the entrances. The duel
of wit was between Cassius R. Peck
and Harrison Allen, attorneys for the
Portland Evening Telegram, and the
witness, who asks $50,000 damages
for alleged libelous articles published
concerning him and his practices.
The telegram played one of its
trump cards when it called the atten
tion of Lucafl to a small blue pam
phlet with the three titles, "Love,"
"Health" and "A Limitless Life On
Karth" on its cover, published by
"Alzamon Ira Lucas, master servant."
It was printed in 1907. One of the
chief contentions of Lucas in his libel
suit and on the witness stand is that
the Telegram referred to him as a
negro, when in fact he said he was
not.
"I know what my color is I am
Hindu, Cherokee Indian, Holland and
French," he declared yesterday after
the question of his race had first been
broached.
Five Nationalities Radiant.
One line in this pamphlet read,
' "Tour founder, inheriting negro, In
dian and Caucasian blood, and ra
diant with five nationalities." Asked
if he could identify the pamphlet,
Lucas said that he could not, but
admitted he had published one sim
ilar. Requested to tell what differ
ence, if any. there was between the
one produced and the one he remem
bered printing, Lucas declared:
" 'Ethiopian was the word used in
stead of 'negro' in the one I pub
lished." "Then this has been copied, or made
Over?"
"Well, I think there were some
struck off with the word 'negro.'
Somebody slipped it in; 1 never wrote
it."
"Have you a copy of this pamphlet?"
"No. 1 have always kept two copies
of everything I write, but I have
looked for this and been unable to
find it."
"Just what is the distinction be
tween Ethiopian and negro?"
"As I understand it, Ethiopia was
the bginniug of all mixed, darker
racew."
"What races?"
"it includes all dark races."
"Tell me what other race does
Ethiopian properly apply to except
the negro race."
"Well, the Abyssinian, the Afghan,
and "
"Are not those negro races?"
Malay Hardly Ethiopian.
"Vos, sir, I think they come . under
the black negro jraces."- . .
. "All right, what other races?"
'The Malay "
"is not that a yellow race? Do you
mean, to class the yellow man as an
Ltliiopian?"
"At that time my information was
that all mixed races came from Ethi
opia." "1 can't beat that, Mr. Lucas," com
mented Attorney Peck, surrendering
that line of examination.
Later in the examination Lucas ex
plained his blief in more detail.
"I believe that all nationalties come
from one race," he declared.
"Then every man in this courtroom
has Ethiopian blood in him?"
"Every person in the world has ev
ery kind of blood in him in essence."
l.lvlns by Vi( Denied.
Lucas denied that he had attempted
to "live by his wits." saying that
when he left his position as bell boy
in San Francisco he "conceived the
idea of starting out to do good to hu
manity." "If 1 lived by my wits. I would be
a millionaire today," he announced.
He told of success in healing by the
laying on of hands and prayer, but of
many financial reverses, ending up
the atory of numerous ventures by
the comment that he "went broke"
and took up barbering or the role of
itinerant entertainer to recuperate
funds.
"1 could always get enough patients,
but they wouldn't pay," he com
plained. The witness said that he had not
taught that a person could live in
definitely. "But 1 do say that a person could
live 900 years, a thousand years or
more, and we should not limit our
life to three score years and ten,"
he explained. He had many disciples
for his "limitless life" theory, which
he still teaches, he said. He de
clared it was rather difficult to
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realize "the truth" in this life, but
that limitless life would be possible
in generations to come, as it was in
the time of Methuselah. The secret
is in the re-creating of all parts of
the body every nine months, he ex
plained. Legal Education Limited.
Much time was spent by the de
fense attempting to catch Lucas in
contradictions between his present
testimony and that given several
months ago in a deposition. In the
deposition, for instance, he had ad
mitted that the other bell-boys in the
Baldwin hotel. San Francisco, where
he worked when 18 years old, were
all colored. Yesterday he testified
that they were of mixed races, some
being white.
While clerk of a small court in
California at a salary of J40 a month.
Lucas said he ' tried 17 cases as at
torney before the court, winning them
all. He admitted this was the basis
of his claim to being a lawyer. He
never took a bar examination or went
to law school, he asserted, but studied
law while employed in this court.
For 18 months Lucas had been a
patient and later a helper at a county
hospital. The defense attempted to
show that this was the sole basis
of his contention that he was a stu
dent and teacher of anatomy and
physiology, to which Lucas replied
that "the results prove themselves."
Prnvrr Trouble Recalled.
Lucas testified to an unpleasant
experience in Denver, where a man
named Alalone threatened to kill him
or "smash his face" if he passed out
any of his literature to a daughter.
Lucas was handing out pamphlets at
the entrance of a Denver high school,
calling attention to a series of lec
tures, purporting to give advice on
marriage preparations, conduct of a
honeymoon, etc. One of the pamph
lets was placed in evidence. The wit
ness maintained that they were not
obscene and that he did not offer
them to the high school girls, tnougn
they could have received them if they
asked him for them.
Because he was dark-skinned he
did not care to offer them to the girls,
he explained.
"1 found that people are mostly
demons of prejudice, not Christians,
in dealing with the dark race," he
said.
Lucas told of an interview in which
he- rebuked Telegram editors two
days after the first article concern
ing his practices had appeared.
"Were you mad?" inquired Attor
ney Peck.
"I never get mad," replied the wit
ness in dignified reproof.
"Just what did you do?"
Telefrram Merely Rebuked.
"I rebuked the Telegram. I told
them they would have to repent or
suffer."
"This was in the nature of an ad
monition in a spiritual attitude.
was it?"
"No. sir! It was in a commanding
attitude."
The witness said he was ousted
from his offices in the Morgan build
ing and refused offices in the North
western Bank, Plttock. Piatt and
Bush & Lane buildings and that his
clients dropped from 50 a day to five
a day as the result of published ar
tides.
Diplomas were held by Lucas in th
Amenican Naturopathic association
and the Bryn Mawr, Wash.. College of
Mental Science. In the latter he was
held qualified to instruct in "ob
iective unfoldment through study of
the individual self." The diplomas
and degrees were received through
examinations, not attendance, he said.
The -witness was not certain
whether his father's name was Au
gusta I. Lucas or Augustus L Lucas.
He could tell nothing of his father's
life or whether or not he was still
alive. His childish memories of his
father "were poignant, he said. He
had. been steward on the steamer
Orizaba.
"Poor Dad, Always Drunk."
"He was once in a while at home
to my regret, always drunk. Poor
dad. Always drunk." declared Lucas.
The defense produced a letter pre
sumably written to the chief of police
at Denver from a newspaper editor in
another city, asking for information
concerning "that black devil Lucas,"
which Lucas admitted dictating for
the purpose" of fipding out what the
real, opinion of himself was in
Denver.
H. A. Lindsley, former district at
torney of Denver, was in the court
room yesterday as a witness for the
defense, but was not called to- the
stand. Lucas denied that Lindslej
ever drove him out of Denver. Ht
told of a conversation with Lindsley,
but could not identify him in the
courtroom.
Oldest Xatlve Is 81.
ALBANY, Or.. Dec. 8. (Special.)
Cyrus Hamlin Walker, the oldest liv
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Rocky mountains, celebrated his 81st
birthday at his home near this city
yesterday. He enjoys good health,
despite his advanced age, and went
to church as usual.
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perintendent of properties, to another
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Bids on Gyratory Rock Crusher
Turned Over to Roadmaster
for Recommendations.
Although 15 workers were all that
were asked, when 20 ex-soldiers ap
peared In the office of Roadmaster
Eatchel yesterday seeking temporary
employment in the erection of a
stockade at Kelly Butte rocKpile, the
roadmaster did not have the heart to
turn any away and all were put to
work. There is about 15 days' em
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Bids on a new gyratory rock crush
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The city of Portland Is liable for
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3. 1919, election expenses, according
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election, in an opinion rendered by
District Attorney Evans at the, re
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The original lighting system In
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