The age-herald., 1899-06-06
QiQlOO III VluUIIl1tG ANNA GOULD NOT GUILTY Countess Denies Having Been
 in the Mob WHICH INSULTED M. L0U8ET Action of the Government in Suppress ing Demonstration to Marchand, it is Claimed, Incited the
 Disgraceful Scenes.
WHICH INSULTED M. L0UBET

Paris, June 5.-The municipal this after noon discussed the Auteuil affair and M. Blanc, prefect of police. announced that fifty of those under arrest would be pros ecuted for insulting the president.
 He animadverted severely upon the cow ardice of Count Christian, who now pre- tends that he struck the president by ac- cident in his attempt to escape from the melee.
 The council unanimously adopted a reso- lution expressing its adherence to the in- sulting demonstrations and it's respectful sympathy with M. Loubet.
 Anna Gould Not Guilty
 Count Boni de Castellane has written a letter to the Echo de Paris denying the statements of newspapers that the countess Qormerly Anna Gould, of New York;, placed herself at the head of the Jeunnese royaists at the Auteuil demonstration yesterday The count declares his wife does not belong to the clubs and that she did not even hear of 1t. She did not know what was occurring.
 Comte and Comtesse Boni de Castellano assure the correspondent of the Associated Press that there is no truth in the state ment that the Comtesse was mixed up in the rioting in the Auteuil race course yes terday. The Comtesse was disagreeably surprised to see her name connected with the affair. The story originally appeared in Le Presse, of this city, which said 1t had received the information from source usually reliable.
 Midnight-M. Le Mercier, the examining magistrate, tonight began the interrogation of those under arrest for participating in yesterdays rioting. Ten, including M. De Panissey, have been released. About fif- teen will be prosecuted on the charge or rebellion, for which the maximum punish ment is five years imprisonment.
 The charge against Comte Christiani Is of assaulting magistrate while in the exercise of his functions, an offense pun ishable by imprisonment for from two to five years.
 Made Him More Popular
 The scenes at Auteul on Sunday and in the chamber of deputies on yesterday, have only increased the popularity of President Loubet and of strengthening the hands of the government. The promptitude of the premier, M. Dupuy, in carrying out his promise to take measures to insure jus tice as soon as the court of cessation has pronounced judgment is regarded as prov ing that he himself can show clean bill and though he was premier at the time, General Mercier kept him ignorant of the measures adopted against Dreyfus
 Interviews with various high personages who witnessed the incident at Auteuil are published this morning, all testifyng to the savagery of the demonstration.
 It is asserted that although the price of admission to the paddock was twenty francs, the place was full of coachmen, footmen and valets. evidently sent there to create a disturbance. Countess Tornielli, wife of the Italian ambassador to France. was sitting On M. Ioubets left during the attack and he asked her whether she in- tended to stay She replied: Certainly, Monsieur le President. Am I not in the place of honor?'