The Cairo bulletin., 1905-10-19
PHILIP ASKING
FOR A DIVORCE.
DissOIute Husband OF Princess
Louise Wants Separation
MONEY FOR FREEDOM
CHALLENGE JURISDICTION
OF THE SAKE CoeuRG
COURT, ADJ0URNs.

G5tha, Duchy of SAKE Coburg-
Gotha, Oct 18.-Prince Philip of Co
Durgs suit for divorce from his wife,
Princess Louise, daughter Of the King
of the Belgians began here today
He also seeks to adjust the joint
property interests of the parties
The suit is being tried in the divorce
court, Prince Philip having declined
10 exercise the royal privilege of hay
ng it heard by special tribunal.
Neither F'"ince nor Princess was
present Their attorneys offered no
objection TO the proceedings being
public Capt Count Keglevitch Mat
achich's with whom the Princess
eloped, was present.
The President proposed to the law
yers that the two parties seek recon
ciliation, explaining that this did not
mean 10 urge the Prince and Princess
20 live together again. but to agree to
an amicable separation and a satlsfac-
ory agreement concerning property
During a recess the lawyers reached
an agreement on this basis.
The Prince to continue 10 pay the
Princess a yearly allowance of SIS 900
and lump sum of $4,000 provided
che abandon all further claims aga nst
he Prince and that afer the divorce
she adopt the name and title Of
Lenise, Princess. Of Belg um.
After these terms were laid before
-he court another recess was taken
that the Princess might be tele-
graphed for her consent to the ar
rangement
Later the Princess's lawyers at
lacked the competence of the court to
decide the case at all. The court then
adjourned 10 Oct. so to study the
question of its competence, to get an
answer from Princess Louise and to
settle the applicability of the Austrian
iaw 70 Prince Philips agreement that
The court avoid ra sing the question
as 10 which party is guilty.
The Princes bill of complaint re-
cites his wifes elopment with Count
Mattachich in 1897 The complaint
charges the Princess with extrava-
gance, stating that although she had
aad received an allowance of $24 900 !
yearly she had contracted debts which |
N 1895 amounted to $4,000, of which |
he Prince has paid $21S.000 As an |
instance of her extravaganza the com
plant cited that in her wardrobe |
We're found seventy-fve pairs of silk |
shoes, 100 pairs of other shoes, sixty |
parasols and about one hundred hats |
1t is not known yet how far the
Princess's answer will describe her |
married life. It has been m serable.
beautiful girl she was handed |
over to Prince Philip as dissolute as
avar.cious and brutal She encount.
cred Mattachich at Abazzea and ran
away Tith him.
Deprived of means by her royal
father and princely husband, know
ng nothing of financial methods, she
raised money by her note of hand,
Her debts mounted rapidly; the crash
came in 1898 when a financier caused
Count Mattachich's arrest for forgery.
fhe money lender noticed that the
signature of Princess Stephanie,
Acuises sister. on a photograph diff
Fifu mum thti liuoi sung IIiHteHS
-youises note
Mattachich remained silent and
asked that Princess Louise be called
as a W tness at his trial But she
was immured at sanitarium Mat
achich. who has since protested that
The charge of forgery was trumped up
against him. was sent to prison.
Ha L l.
Dudlingui sanitarium in 1899 the Prin-
cess was removed TO DR.. Persons
Asylum. near Dresden, where she
hssed five weary years.
In August 1894. DIR. Parscn took her
TO Bad Elster. a little watering place
n Saxony, where she was actually
: prisoner. The devoted Mattachich
having been released from prison, res
cued. abducted" her.
medical commission in Paris in
May declared the Princess to be sane
and two days later il was announced
mat Prince Philip would begin pro
eeedings for divorce. which, should he
win. would relieve him from paying the
Princess the yearly allowance upon
which she had been living in Paris
Extravaganza has often been
quoted against Princess Louise. but
she knew nothing of the value of
money She has said: Everything
was brought to me and when I re-
used them doutbless those i'm my ser
vice retained them"
Fabulous prices were charged her.
Prince Philip shrewdly offered to
pay half her debts if King Leopold
would pay the other half
My daughter is dead to me-" said
hat dissOlute and miserly monarch
You should have told him that one
pays one chiIdreh's debts. after they
are dead" said Emperor Francis
Joseph to the envoy who had vainly