The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-23
OTHER WOMEN IN
CARUS0 SCANDAL
Attempt Made to Show That
Great Singer Was Guilty
Two Years Ago.
COMPLAINING WITNESS
HAS NOT YET APPEARED
Great ThrOng Crowds Court,
room, and Testimony Fur
nishes Sensations.

NEW YORK, Nov. 22-Hannah Gra-
ham, the woman who caused the arrest
! of Enrlco Caruso on charge OF an
moving aud mIstreating her III the Non
key-house in Central park last Friday,
| may appear in police court tomorrow
TO press the charge against him, Just
before court adjourned tonight at the
cnd of the second day s hearing OF the
charge against the singer, Deputy ro-
nee Commissioner Mathot. who is con-
ductng the prosecution. said that Ia,
| had little more evidence TO offer. There
! was only one witness for the prose-
cutlon yet to be heard. he said, and
When that witness appeared he would
require less than ten minutes to com
plete his ease
Despite the efforts of the police, it
had been found impossible to- present
the witnesses today, but be felt safe
IN assuring the court that the person
TO whom he referred would he in court
tomorrow. y report that the witness
Tererred TO was the missing Hannah
! Graham spread
Hannah Graham dropped out of sipht
when she left the police station fyo
minutes after she had preferred the
| charge against Caruso last FRIDAY af-
| ternoon, and witnesses for the prosecu-
tlon testified that the utmost endeavors
mad been made to find her, but without
aNali. should she appear she would
Iurnlsh a sensation far greater than
any which have marked the two davs'
nearing In the Yorkvillc police court.
Day Furnishes Sensations.
Today was not without sensations
when court adjourned last night Ca
ruso was on the stand, and his exam
lnaIlon was resumed when the case was
taken up today. Deputy Police Com
missioner Mathot questioned. the de.
fendant closely concerning the four
years when he has appeared In this
country under the direction of Helm
t,ch .n tonred. Caruso acknowledged
| tnat he was IN New York in 1904. and
that on February 4 of that wear he
sang IN . Parsifal' at the Metropoli-
! tan opera house. 1t was al this point
that the real sensation of the dav
came. The wide doors directly behind
| the magistrate s bench swung open,
| ana woman IN white and with a
white veil drawn closely over her face
/ stepped into the room
',Caruso, look upon this woman. },
sald tbe deputy police commissioners, as
! the woman raised the veil and revealed
| before 2H
The defendant moved uneasily, hesi-
tated. and then replied:
~ NAVE never seen her.
Did YOU not, on the afternoon OF
February 4. 1909. during the second act
or farsltal, stand behind this woman
In the Metropolitan opera house and
subject her 10 exactly the same indig-
mites 10 which it is charged Hannah
Graham was subjected ut the Central
Fark monkey houscl''
u did not. - replied the witness hot
~, ~ never saw the woman before.
so far as | can remewber."
Brings in Other Women,
is IT not true that on that after
noon not only this woman, but other
women were the victims of such inae-
ceht actlon upon your part?' persist
ed Mr.. Mathot
CaruSo s counsel broke in with Il viu
orous objection, which was sustained.
III was reported in the courtroom that
the woman IN white was member of
the chorus of the Metropolitan Opera
company.
One of the diverting features of the
day was the appearance for the defense
of DR., Adolph Dcnsiger. former Amcri.
can Consul at Madrid Dr. pensig.r
tes5lned thai he went in the monkey
house at Central park during Caruso's
VISIT there Friday. aud that he
observed no improper action on the
singer S part, He declared that he had
N"luHldrIN come forward 10 testify IN
the singer S behalf because he knew
him personally. knew him TO be
gentleman the greatest tenor of this
or any other time Being a benefactor
of humanity, he desired To protect
Caruso. not for himself alone, bnt for
his great career
Volunteered Assistance
81 volunteered 10 assist Mr. Caruso
in exactly the same way that | vomn-
teered 10 assist President Roosevelt
TO become President of the United
States, said DR.. Dcnsiger, He Swore
that from his observation it would have
been a physical impossibllity for Caruso
to have acted toward any woman in the
monkey-house in the manner described
BY Detective Cain Yesterday. He stood
within ten feet of Caruso AT the time
he was in the building.
Heinrich Conreid, director of the
Metropolitan opera house, described
Caruso 5 mannerisms much rs did DR..
DeDsiger,
''To be brief. he is pompous. is he
not2' asked Mr. Mathot
cit would be more kind to speak of
ii as habit, replied Mr. Conreid.
Several other witnesses testified as
TO Caruso's 5 inability 10 speak English,
and the hearing was then adjourned un-
til Monday
The police courtroom again housed
,nlo on1 bun1 rods