New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-03
WITNESSES WHO SAW ~sAPHo."
THE TAKING OF TESTIMONY IN THE CASE
FINISHED YESTERDAY.

Miss Olga Nethersole was not In court yesterday
morning. when the "Sspho' hearing resumed
by Magistrate Mott. in his private room at the
Centre-st court. All the others interested were.
A H. Hummel. Miss Nethersole's counsel. said that
the actress slightly ndisposed. and that she
had not left her hotel He declared she would not
be absent from the court all day. but that she
would present herself at about IL O'Clock.
1t was $40 O'Clock when Messrs. Hummel Ham
ilton Revelle. Marcus Mayer. Theodore Moss. Louis
Nethersole and the rest Of the party appeared In
court Magistrate Mott at once closed the case he
had before him and entered his examination room
10 begin the hearing. Sewell Collins the first
witness called
Miss Nethersole appeared few minutes before
II o'clock. She was accompanied by Miss Clayton.
her private secretary. and Mrs Thorne.
Mr. Collins described the first act 'riotous
and noisy carnival. fancy dress party. typically
Partisan. and the guests there. from what they
say and the way they act. not the most re-
spectacle people in the world They crowd
of artists Bohemians. people of very loose morals
singing and dancing and drinking. I did not try
remember many OF the lines. bat great many
of them very suggestive
Mr. Collins did not go into detail In his descrtp-
ton. He went through the play. describing the
different scenes. and corroborated the former wit
nesses. Following his testimony, Assistant Dis
trict Attorney O'Reily announced that the prose-
cution would its
The fist witness called for the defence
Theodore Moss. the proprietor OF Wallack's Thea
tire. On being asked the usual preliminary ques-
tions, he said he lived No. 54S Madison-ave
and that he was married, having wife and about
fourteen children and ten grandchildren" Mr. Moss
told of many affairs that he had had charge OF in
the last thirty-five years, including the balls to
the Prince of Wales and Grand Duke Constantine
and twenty-five years of Charity balls. Mr.. Hum
mel asked him If there anything in "Sapho"
that he would take his wife and children to see
and he said that they had all been to see the par
formance and wished to go again
Are they church members
Il presume so"
People OF good morals?"
Yes. They live with me-"
Mr. Moss said that there was nothing suggestive
in Miss Nethersole's costumes, and that he had
heard any OF the audience complaining about
the immortality OF the play.
Nethersole Miss Nethersole's brother and man
aser. He told OF Miss Nethersole acting "Sapho in
the leading houses in the United States. and said
reached New-York He then through the
play, and told OF the different scenes There
not thing. he asserted in any scene. that could
ed people without prejudice.
Arthur Weld, critic and composer from Mil
waukee. followed. He was not permitted to testify
to the character OF the play as he had not seen
it here in New-York though 1t had previously been
testified that the production here was the
that given In Milwaukee
CLAY NJ Green playwright followed and tes.i-
fled briefly. John NJ. Stephenson. Mrs E L. Fer
nandez and Inspector Thompson were the other
that there was nothing immoral about the play
and asserted that IL was such play could be
seen without moral danger by a sixteen-year-od
boy girl He refused to answer, however. when
asked II he would take his wife and family to see
the play.
At $50 p. m. the hearing was adjourned. the de-
until 10 o'clock Monday. when District Attor-
ney Gardiner will sum up for the State.