The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-22
CARUSO CHEERED AND JEERED
CROWD HALLS HIM ENTERING
COURT TO DEFEND HIMSELF.
Tenor on stand Says Mrs. Graham Smiled
at Him. but That He Ignored Her
Fails TO Appear Policeman Gets An
other witness 90 Back Him. However.

other witness 90 Back Him, However.
Five charges Of improper conduct toward
women were made by Policeman James J.
Cain Of the Central Park squad against
Enrico Caruso; the Metropolitan Opera
House tenor. when the latter was arraigned
for a hearing yesterday afternoon before
Magistrate Baker in the Yorkville police
court. All these cases, II was alleged,
occurred before the eyes Of the policeman
IN the monkey house in the Central Park
ZOO on November 10. the day on which
csrso was arrested on a charge OF annoy
ing Mrs. Hannah X. Graham who gave
her address as 1855 Bsthgate avenue, The
Bronx.
The hearing was not completed and will
20 on again to-day. Caruso was on the
stand when the adjournment was taken.
There we're probably 800 persons standing
In front OF the court house when Csruso
drove up in an enclosed cab. A good many,
perhaps half OF the outside crowd. were
Italians. As the tenor stepped from his
cab of went the hats OF the Italians and
up went a chorus OF a Bravo, bravo, Ca
russo" A number Of others in the crow
sent up a cry of Monkey house. monkey
house, monkey house. Causo."
Mrs. Graham failed to appear at yester-
days hearing, and Policeman Cain was
obliged TO admit that so far as he knows
now the name may have been fictitious.
The complainant policeman did produce
a witness in the person OF Jeremiah
Mccarthy. a friend of his and an employee
at the American League baseball grounds.
who corroborated the police testimony in
regard to three OF the incidents which oo-
Cured in the monkey house on November
10. This was the most important develop
ment in the compliments case. although
another surprise was sprung on Caruso's
lawyers when it was sought to have the
Mrs. Graham incident regarded only as n
or several on which the charge against
the defendant was based. The defence
had expected to go into court to answer
only the Graham charge. In this they
we're disappointed. and Gains testimony
in regard to the other four cases was adj
mitted.
Ex-Judge A. j. Dittenhpefer and F. W.
Sporting. counsel for Caruso. tried TO show
that Mccarthy. IN acquaintance of the
complainant policeman. had no been in
PRODUCED into the case until after it was
known that Mrs. Graham" would not sp-
pear. Caruso's counsel declared again
and again that Mrs. Graham" was a myth.
and that the whole thing was a police
made case. Caruso's lawyers didn't at
tempt TO suggest what the object OF the
conspiracy might be.
Caruso himself was on the witness stand
for ~three-quarters OF an hour. He was
questioned through an interpreter. He
was a little nervous, but made a good inn
preston. He declared that he wasn't
in the monkey house more than five or
six minutes. He said that the woman
who called herself Mrs. Graham had smiled
at him, but that he ignored her and did not
ace her again until he had been arrested by
tain and led before the sergeant in the
Arsenal.
He decla red hat the policeman took
him into custody outside the monkey
house and that he didn't know why he had
neen arrested. The policeman swore that
he arrested Caruso inside the monkey
house after Mrs. Graham had struck him
with both hands. Witnesses who were
called from the Arsenal police station gave
conflicting testimony as to Mrs. Graham's
identity and as TO what occurred when
Carusp was arraigned before the police
sergeant.
Half an hour before ? O'Clock, the time
set for the calling of the case, the little
court room was packed, and the crowd
overfowed into the long hallway clear back
b. the street. Caruso came into court,
CrOwding through, in the company OF his
manager, Herr Conried. F. W. Sporting,
Herr Conried's brother-ih-law, and several
Of the tenor's closest friends, among Others
Richard Barthelemy, his private tutor;
Count NJ. Magnoni, Count Secconi, he
Waller del Pcppa and Mario Scott.
Carlso wore a long black oveTcoat, a
frock coat and high hat, a white waistcoat,
and a big black and white ascot tie, with a
large pearl sticlSpin in it. He carried a
light cane. He was nervous when he saw
the crowd, but a few slaps OF the back by
Herr Conried seemed to reassure him and
he stepped quickly up the court house
steps.
The crowd closed in behind him and for
several minutes tho ten extra policemen
who had been stationed at the building had
their hands full to check the rush.
There were probably a dozen women in
the court room when Caruso entered, and
they stuck it out during the entire hearing.
some Of them we're so eager to get a look at
the tenor that they climbed up on benches
in the rear Of the room, and one sat on a
wlndowsi!l during most Of the time that the
case was on The windows on the north
side Of the court room look out on Proctor's
Fifty-eighth street theatre. The theatre
fire escapes were crowded by the curious
others viewed the accused tenor from the
windows OF that building.
There was a delay OF about fifteen min
utes in getting the case under way. because
Judge Dittenhoefer, Carusois chief counsel,
had not put in an appearance. The tenor
was elbowed into the crowd over near one
OF the windows, where be fingered the cane
~nervously and mopped the beads OF per-
Epiration from his brow. Third Deputy
Police Commissions Mathot represented
the complainant policeman, who was the
first witness called.