ALLEGED INSULTING BEHAVIOUR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8291, 20 November 1906, Page 5

ALLEGED INSULTING BEHAVIOUR.

A WELL-KNOWN TENOR ARRESTED, SCENE IN NEW YORK! Received November 19, 8.30 a.m. NEW YORK, Nov. 18. Signor Caruso, the well-known tenor, has boen arrested in New York at the instance uf a woman, who charged him withy insulting her. it requited the services of two policemen to take Signor Caruso, who was half mad with excitement and anger, to the cells. He was afterwards bailed out. The woman who prefeired the charge against him gave a false address, and has since disappeared. Signor Caruso was subsequently taken before the Court, and remanded till the 21st inst. The detective who was t responsible for the singer's arrest alleged that there are a number of similar offences against'him. (Enrico Caruso, who is said to be the greatest living tenor, is Neapolitan by birth, and is thirtythree years of uge. His father was a humble mechanician, and wished that his sdn should be the same, but the singer took his fate in bis hands and l«ft home. After sorving in the army, Caruso returned home, and it was as a churoh singer that his fame as a vocalist spread, and he was engaged for the opera in Milan. Immediately he attracted attention, and advanced with wonderful rapidity, until now he oooupies the premier operatic tenor position in the world. In South Amerioa he has reoeived as much as £2OO per night).