CARUSO WEEPS IN COURT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3655, 16 October 1912, Page 8

CARUSO WEEPS IN COURT.

PROSECUTION OF FAMOUS CONTRALTO FOR ALLECED CALUMNY.

CHAUFFEUR AS HIS RIVAL.

Signor Caruso, tile world-famed tenor, attended at the Milan Criminal Court recently to prosecute Signora Ada. Giachetti, the contralto opera singer, for alleged calumny and defamation of character. There are three other defendants —• Caruso’s ex-chauffeur, Romati, who is alleged to have fled to the Riviera with Giachetti in Caruso’s motor-car, and a New York theatrical agent named Achille Loria, both of whom are charged with complicity in the plot against Caruso and with bribing a false witness from Naples called Micalizzi Turco, who is the fourth defendant.

Caruso, stylishly dressed, and wearing a conspicuous fancy waistcoat, drove to the court in his magnificent autocar, accompanied by a beautiful lady, Signorina Carignani, who is associating herself with him as prosecutrix.

•When the presiding judge had taken his seat Giachetti’s lawyer presented a cablegram from his client at Buenos Ayres, alleging that it was impossible for her to' appear, because all the out-going steamers had their berths engaged until the end of October.

The whole of the morning was occupied in a debate as to whether Sig’liora Giachetti should be tried *in default. The judge finally decided that the case should be tried at the winter assizes.

Caruso wept impressively whilst his three lawyers explained to the court toe poignant suffering he had undergone through this unhappy love affair and the cruel revenge that followed. He is anxious to narrate the full story in public. When the ease eventually comes on it is expected that it will last a fortnight.