The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-11-24
This Is Answer of the
Police to CaruSO'S De-
ciSion to Appeal
the Case.
SAY AUTO WAS SCENE
OF AN INSULTING ACT
Singer Is Given Sympathetic
Comment in Editorials
in London News
papers.

NEW YORK, Nov. Give have
thirty women whom we viii pro-
duce in court and prove were in
suited by Caruso If he appeals this
case. The farther he goes, the
worse it win be for him"
This startling statement of host
OF other charges against the Metro
politan Opera House tenor vas made
today by Deputy Police Commits
sioner Aiathot when ne was inform
ed that Caruso had determined TO
appeal his case To the court of spe-
cial sessions.
II developed also today that there
is a strong probability of Caruso's
not singing at his scheduled first
performance next Wednesday night.
IT is feared that public sentiment
VIII be too strongly against him.
His voice. moreover, because of the
nervous excitement during and fol-
lowing his trial. Is declared TO be
temporarily impaired.
This Shameful Case"
.Caruso. under the law. of course. mas
a right TO appeal from the decision OF
the ina agisrate." said Commissioner
Mathot today. But the deeper he goes
into tails shameful case. the more fully
viii the police department of New York
probe into his conduct.
Regarding the automobile incident, in
which this man insUited a woman. can
say this. that If Mr.. Caruso or his Law
Yer, or his friend or any one else inter
ested in his welfare desires To combat
the evidence that I have. the singers
path will not be srreVn with flowers.
II have the name of this woman that
he insulted- She is woman OF prom
inence, and she came forward and re-
vesled the nature of this mans insult.
but it was told TO me in strict conf
dence. I cannot tell YOU her name, but
she is ready and willing, should the oc-
casion arise. to do everything in her
power to aid the police
Mrs. Graham Not Produced.
Deputy Commissioner Mathot was
however, unable to lift the veil OF mys-
terry that still clings 10 The identity and
whereabouts OF AEs Hannah X era
nam. the woman who caused Carusos
q +SSL Al tlAc AilD&ht5 mouse. NDT could
the deputy commissioner give any as
surance that this woman would be urO-
duced In the court OF special sessions
should the CarUso case go TO appeal
Former Judge Dittenhoefer, Caruso's
chief counsel. said today that he would
90 before one OF the judges of general
sessions on Monday with a. atfdavft
setting forth the error Magistrate Baker
Is considered by him to have made, and
ask FOR reconsideration Of the case
by the higher court
The London newspapers TODAY COM
ment sympathetically with Caruso IN
his police court trial. IL being the gen
eral expression that he could not have
been convicted in the British courts on
the evidence submitted by the police.
This is what the Daily Express says:
Upholds ConTied.
The decision VIII satisfy no one. Mr..
Conried in asserting that II Caruso WAS
guilty he should have been more severe
ly punished, but that otherwise he
should have been acquitted, has said
precisely what most people will think
or both sides of the Atlantic.
las il Is. il VIII be felt that the mag
istrate has hedged. Much of the testl-
mony which was rendered would have
been ruled out OF evidence IN any Eng
lish court. Mrs. Graham, whose evil
dence from the British legal point OF