New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-06
Crowds Fill Court to Hear
Testimony in Singers
Divorce.
MADAME WORRIED BY
BAYREUTH CONTRACT
Witnesses Tell of Conjugal En-.
dearments Between Rapp and
the "Other Woman"
[By Telegraph TO The Tribune J

Chicago, June 5.-A sensation seek
ing audience crowded both sessions Of
the Schumann- Heink divorce trial to-
day and were disappointed repeatedly
by the abrupt ending of depositions
just as they gave promise of becoming
interesting. They changed as fire.
quently as reels in the nickel movie"
houses
Persons who held their places on the
benches from early morning until ad-
journment in the afternoon were re-
warded by a view Of madame's primly
tailored back. turned uncompromisingly
toward them, and with the canned tes-
timony Of the New York detectives she
had engaged to shadow her husband
William Rapp. jr., and Mrs. Catherine
Dean, the other woman"
Every hour of every day for many
months each movement made by Rapp
was jotted down in the notebook of one
of madame's three sleuths. But they
had stopped short of peeping through
keyholes or putting photographs into
the apartments where Rapp and Mrs.
Dean had lived In the whole mass Of
testimony there was only a single in
cident tending 10 show that the rela-
tiOns between the two were anything
but formal. In that instance one of
the detectives. Eugene Rosse, testified
he had heard Mrs. Dean say to Rapp
as she left him at the door Of butcher
shop:
Wait a minute, dear, until l get
something for Tomorrow"
Though madame gave no outward
evidence of agitation as her lawyers
waded through the depositions, she was
inwardly much disturbed. She is under
contract 10 sing in the Wagnerian fes-
tival at Bayreuth on June -. and time
for her is precious. Mentally she was
weighing the value of each deposition
10 her case against the value OF the
time consumed in reading them. She
has announced through her lawyers
ntT lIlltHtlOil VI SAd ing ln tulNdSO iii
her case is decided.
In another deposition John Berger, a
j.nitor testified that Mrs. Dean and
Rapp occupied the same apartment, at
SSl Central Park West, New York.
Berger also said he had seen Mark
Harrison. an actor. whose name had
been mentioned by Naples, in the
apartment.
The deposition OF Rosse was taken
up in the afternoon.
Il first saw Mr.. Rapp on December
II, 1872" Rosse testified. Il went TO
his Office, at No. West 34th St, New
York, and covered the buiIdlng-that
is, / watched the entrance until he
came out at 6 o'clock in the evening.
"Hr. Rapp walked TO Fourth av. and
23d at He met lady there and rode
uptown with her on subway train.
When they got off the train | was fol-
loving them. They entered an apart
ment house at 937 Holmes st. togeth-
er"
The incident in which Mrs. Dean ad-
dressed Rapp as dear" occurred the
following Sunday. Rosse testified.
Neither ne nor any OF the other de-
ponents whose depositiOns thus far
have been read into the record ever
heard Rapp and the other woman"
call one another anything but Mr..
Rapp" or Mrs. Dean
Rosse testified further that on the
morning Of February > he, with "Mr.
orr" the head OF the detective agency.
engaged by Nine. Schumann- Heink.
Elias Mayer. one OF madame's law
vers. and Detectives Wells and Naples,
watched Rapp and the woman come out
OF the house. Rapp. he said. was car
rying his suitcase.