The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-18
CARUSO I'LL, NOT IN COURT.
WOMAN. VINO GAVE FALSE RESI-
DENCE. ALSO ABSENT.

Tenor Has sciatiOa Due.ts Exposure. HIs
Doctor Certincs policeman Cain Says
Tie Saw on ensive Act Starts on Hunt
FOR Mrs. Graham In The Bronx.
signor Enrioo Csruso. Mr.. Conried's tenor,
who was arrested by Policeman James J.
Cain in the monkey house OF the Central
Park zoo on Friday evening, on the COM
plant Of q woman who gave her name as
Mrs. Hannah X. Graham, is now 20 Iii that
he will be unable 70 leave his rooms In the
Hotel Savoy FOR several days. So says DR..
Ludwig Weiss Of a West Ninety-frst street,
who was summoned by Mr.. Conried to
attend Caruso after he had been bailed out
OF the East Sixty-seventh street station
house on Friday evening and who again
visited the tenor yesterday.
DR.. Weiss says that the singers case is a
peculiar one He Immediately diagnosed
the malady as sciatica, u to Q xposure,
when he attended Csruso on Friday night.
Yesterday afternoon DIR. Weiss said that the
affection was complicated by the extremely
nervous condition OF the patient, brought
on by the ~notoriety thrust on him by his
arrest.
Signor Caruso wal unable to leave his
apartments yesterday morning to appear
In the Yorkville police court. He was in
bed. He remained in bed all day. Signor
Caruso saw only his friend John Viafora,
an artist, Of "A Manhattan avenue, n his
lawyer, Frederick w. Sporting. The hotel
clerk said that the tenor was not receiving
other cards and that he was ill-not seriously
90, but enough under the weather to render
absolute quiet necessary.
When the case against Caruso was called
in the Yorkville court in the morning Mr..
Sporting submitted the certificate OF DR..
Weiss setting forth the fact that the singer
was unable to appear:
This is to certify that Mr.. Enrico Csruso
Is suffering from q painful attack of ~soiatica,
due to exposure. which prevents him from
being out. He has got to stay in bed for
q time and must not leave the house.
Dr.. LUDWIG WEISS.
az West Ninety-irst street.
Ex-Judge D~ittenhoefer, who was in court
as representative OF Mr.. Conried, ask ed
Magistrate Baker for An adjournment to
Wednesday. The Magistrate complied with
the request and set the hearing for 2 O'Clock
on that day.
A representative OF Mr.. Conried said
yesterday hat Caruso's sudden attack Of
s~ciatica was most unexpected. On Friday
he seemed to be In the best Of spirits and
was in good voice. He started out about
4 o'clock for a walk in the park intending
to visit his friend Mr.. viafora.
The woman who complained against
Caruso in the monkey house on Friday
evening and who said she was Mrs. Hannah
X. Graham OF 1879 Bath gate avenue, The
Bronx, did not appear in court yesterday
to prosecute. The police have learned that
the address she CAV was a fictitious one
and they suspect that the name was also
not her own. There is a Hannah X. Graham
who il secretary OF the Christian Temper
ance Society and lives in Bronxville, but
she is not the woman who complained to
Policeman Cain OF what she styled the
tenor's offensive attentions.
Unless Cain can find the woman before
Wednesday he alone will have to appear
as accuser. Cain says he saw all that
happened.
Il saw this man mo two young women
before he approached Mrs. Graham said
Cain yesterday. They moved away and
finally left the monkey house without max
ing any outcry or paying Caruso any direct
attention. Then he walked over and began
TO annoy this woman. who vas standing in
front of the marmosets' cage with a little
boy about six years old.
Il saw her move away once and the man
follow her. He had both hands in his over
coat pockets to all Appearances. and he
carried his cane with the head in one Of the
pockets and the stick pointing over his
shoulder. He would side up close to the
woman and, as far as l could see, nudge
her with his knee and pass his hands over
her through the pockets, which were slit
in front and would allow him to pass his
hands out apparently without removing
them from the inside of the coat. When
the woman turned around and angrily ex-
claimed that them nan in the overcoat was
insulting her I stepped in.'
Cain said hat the woman was dressed
in a brown suit and wore jewels. She
seemed to him to be a person of respecta-
bility. He started out yesterday on a
search for her through The Bronx. He
said that he would greatly prefer to have
her appear at the Yorkville, court on
Wednesday instead OF himself, but he real
lied that most women try to evade notoriety
in such cases.
The policeman added that after he had
put Caruso under arrest he recognized him
az a man he had ordered out Of the monkey
house last December for the same offence.
On that occasion, he says, the singer
had forced his attentions on two young
women. who FASTENED away before a CON-
plant could be secured from them.
Ma Conried has not altered his opinion
that the policeman made a mista Ike in ar
resting Caruso.
why. this whole thing is preposterous,'
said Mr.. Conried yesterday. Il think no
more Of this outrageous charge against
Signor Caruso than l do Of other blunders
which the police make every day. He will,
OF course, be freed by the court and he will
appear, a. scheduled, in Fedora on No
vember "a