CARUSO VINDICATED.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6488, 7 April 1908, Page 2

CARUSO VINDICATED.

Mm Hannah. Stanhope, who caused the arrest of Signer Eurico Caruso, of tk* Metropolitan Opera-Hewe, on a charge of tnaoTiaf her in the New Turk man-k*y-hou»e last year, vw (says the ewrwrporsdent nf the "Daily Telegraph" on February 10) to-day fined one cent. fer intoxication and disorderly conduct, and her haif-eisrfcer, Mr« Mary Graham, with whom she lire®, was fined tho nne«moxmt on the same charge. When Mr* Stanhop* complained ta Folioemwi Kan* that Signor Carats had annoyed her ia the monkey-hooto, she gay® the naasta of Hannah Graham. She never appeared in court against tho tenor, but, on tho testimony of Kane, Signor Camw was fined J>2. Policeman John Rooney to-day found Mrs Stanhope , find Mrs Graham engaged in a battle, in which hair-pulling and vituperation predominated. Rooney tried to get the women to go home, but he said Mrs Stanhope began to -abuse him, and he arrested her. Then Mr® Graham attacked him. and Rooney locked her up too.' trate* Walsh acted Mrs Stanhope if eke was th© woman who made a complaint against Signor Caruso P "Caruso, t>h» replied, ‘‘get my name into tho papers, but I never appeared in the courts against him/' When Signor Caruso was informed this afternoon that his old enemy had been fined as stated above, he seemed very jubilant, nnc! said. “Now rry vindication is complete before the world. I am a happier inan to-day than I have been for a long time,"