New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-17
CARUSO IN COURT
sBsRKEY BESIDE HIM
is BodNguard' CARGO Nc
San No. No" Replies Friend.

-.,.. ms study in contrasts IN 'n'
-, -,-oc, police court IN brooAis"
-. .f,ernoon Enrico Caruso VS.
,.,,Ycss chair. Tom Sharkey N"s
,.- ~. complaint clerk about some
XIV DAT sVipod me nla'i''i'' '''
al Sheelsaead BAY .,.a
-, lanes q Tighe soemeo
- 49,, l,c could offer two such stars
,r one afternoon. The parked -,
-. ,nnreriatiye The only persons
ala NOT appear 20 Do excited "ei' -.
.....,tta and Antonio MissianL the '"o
alleged Black Handlers Nho a. 60 -,
,i.r having tried 20 eNioft So -
81 ,eror They VIII he held o-e"s iO
he strand iurf. -.
,-.~rsa. cook lareuii. elegah' ln $50
sprira Dis patent feathers VIII "'s
.e,,,h., cane or pressing us
.cairst his fat chin. seeineu
sod an tue former heaNs
,.r-er trrr IN his two felo" country men
I. -rs lsr b,st neither BY l"oA nor ny N"ro
"a srsrke, show any appreciation ~ arr
a. represented by Cafuso
son however gaped "hen' as EAhiot
- . rnurderous iookins double haireiieo
.,,o,r,,n saved OF in the middle. la
,s,.c- Hand and q revolver which seemed
,,,, ~ = small cannon we're set out. ca
.,..o eved the weapons IS he sat I'm the
witness chair
VIM his bodyguard ~ detectives and
ssuou singers Caruso reached Brooklyn
ION, fhe Knickerhocker Hotel in Manhat-
,sr by a subway train Somebody sug-
.-..-s5 flaf the singer had added the fighter
81 ms force ~ protectors. hut "Carus'. ne
~, ma. no,' explained an interpreter. with
,.,,,ressfpe gestures The party proceeded
s-5r, tie Borough HAN station OF the sub
usr la a circGitous route 10 the court. For
u. IN, minutes Caruso lolled on a lounge in
49, MAGISTRATES private office Then came
= ran uv court officer. and all IN the
,-,rrroom hobbed MP and Grained their
rsks Carusos entrance was Well staged.
81 vas The last Ia take seat. though the
s-s, to leaAe ths chamber.
called % che witness stand. Csruso gave
Dis rsue and address. described when and
n,p- DE- had received the so-callod Black
psrd letters. and then waited while De
,e-tvcs Smouetti and Meali told how they
srs other officers had watched the prison
a. on Tho uicAt of March 4 approach the
stoop of a factory m Nan Brunt and Sack
o. streets. Brooklyn. where Caruso had
been directed IN The letters 90 place SIS go.
Former state Senator Julius r. Whit
'ogk objected To- the putting in evidence OF
ile letters and the weapons on the ground
thar uo connection had been proved he
tween them and tho men charged with eX-
igrton. Assistant District Attorney Leroy
a. Ross declared that Missiani an his flight
f-0m Are detectives on the night named
lad dropped the shotgun. and that there
was SUFFICIENT evidence 81 threat Tor legal
purposes in one of the letters which said
fHst something would happen - tho tenor
didn't part himself from sl5@a.
Magistrate TiEhc consented. after the
PRISONERS had waived examination. To con-
.r1c the present hail Of S5.@O each until
i.-lsy. when no viii hold them Tor the
Ersud jury.
Flsukod by HIS bodyEuard and debonair
a. ever. Caruso. following tho Testimony
o. the detectives. walked 40 HE Borough
HaI and took a subway Train FOR his hotel
81 Manhattan.