The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-15
ANNA GOULD
 GETS DECREE Absolute Divorce Grant
 cd Countess. HAS CUSTODY OF CHILDREN Father May Have Them During
 One Month of Year.
Under French Law They May Not Be Taken Frosn Country Without ROmi'a CoRsemt-~Alfowances
 Asked fer Refused.

Paris. Nov. 14--The Tribune of First Instance of the Seine. Judge Ditte pre- siding. at noon today granted a di- vorce to the Countess de Castellane formerly Anna Gould, of New fork1 and gave her the custody Of her chit- dren. who, however, will not pc allowed to be taken from France without the consent of their father. Count BonA oe Casteilane.
 The end of the famous case came suddenIy The court brushed aside the demand of the Counts lawyers For an examination of witnesses. and. as an
 ticipated the public prosecutor dld not even ask to be beard. As soon as the court assembled Judge Ditte handed down the judgment, which his a sweeping victory for the Countess. 1 In granting her petition for divorce, l the court gave the Countess the GUS | tody of her children. the Count oelns allowed only the usual rights 10 see | them and share In the control Of their i education. which was not contested. The Count is given the right to see ms l children at stated periods at the home ! of their grandmother. and keep them | a month annually during the holidays
 The Counts demands for an allow
 ance of S50.000 annually was pronounc- i ed by the court to be without founda. | tIon in law and was rejected The only Dojnt decided in the counts fa- Vor was the imposition of the tnhtbf- I ton on the Countess to take the chii-
 dren out of France without the Counts consent.
 Auditors Disappointed.
 The court appointed the Prekident of
 the Chamber of Notaries to- liquidate l the affairs of the husband and wife. | The judgment was given with costs l against tho Count. The decree, the | reading of which hardly consumed five l hNg tNa HUe ] In voice so low as to be practically l inaudtble to the eager crowd filling the court room. Many women climbed the l chairs in vain efforts to hear the de- cision. and wben they were aware that divorce was granted, they seemed
 actually to resent the loss of q public
 tria, at which people iu high society fw0u16 -Be e0fupefled to testify.
 stripped Of textual verbiage, the for
 nal counts upon which the attorneys of
 the countesss de Casteiiane asked for
 divorce.
 Here followsy q number of charges
 extending from the years 1895 toI 1906
 of escapades with various women. The l text of the decree does not go into de-
 tails of the Countess's bill of particu-
 lars. 'inasmuch as Madame de Castel- i lane submitted letters and documents,
 several of which were from the Count himself establishing sufficiently that
  | 1902 and 1905. he had relations and cor l respondence with various women of
 easy virtue, which was most offensive 1 to wife. thus rendering himself gull | ty of acts justifying a divorce and as
 he had failed to establish a reconcilia- 1 tiOn, the petition of Madame de Cas- | tcllane Is granted"
 The Counts demand for an "alimen- 1 tary allowance of $50,000 annually
 was denied on tho ground that the | guilty party in divorce loses all the
 advantage accorded by marriage con- | tract or the course of married life, and
 consequently the court refused to ale 1 low not only the Counts original claim 4
 for $50, 900 per annum, but that $30.00O
 which the Countess offered, and which | it now seems the Count claimed to have | accepted October 25.
 Children Remain in France. j The court also took a precaution l against any unreasonable attitude on l the part of the Count toward allowing i his wife to take her children out of France by providing that in case of l his refusal. judicial authorization l could be granted.
 l The decree orders the Countess to
 send the children on Thursday and | Sundays to their grandmother, the
 Marquis de Castellane, and their sur
 render to their father for a week at ! New Years and Easter and for a month l in the summer.
 Madame Gould. as the former Coun- 1 tess De- -CastelIane, will hereafter be
 known, her title having been ceased with the granting of the divorce, ex- pressed the greatest satisfaction when she received the news at her residence on the Avenue Malakoff. Miss Helen Gould. who will remain here until after Christmas. was withe her at the time. Madame Gould has no present inten- ton of leaving Paris The court hay ing denied the counts application for an annuity. there Is the best ground for the statement that Madame Gould will not make a liberal allowance to the father of her children. Further, 1t is again stated, that so far as the creditors are concerned, the countess will settle all the legitimate bills for household expenses, but she will con tinue to resist to the utmost the pay ment of money owed to usurers, under whatever disguise and borrowed by the count for hls own purposes and with out her consent.
 Story of DOnIeAtic Troubles. Anna Gould, the youngest daughter of the late Jay Could, was married | to Count Ernest Bonlface de Castel- | lane, the eldest son ot the Marquis de i Castellanc. at the Ne York home of | her brother, George J. Gould. March 4. 1 1895. the late Archbishop Corrigan Of- hciating Miss Goulds dowry was un- derstood to have been S1S,OO0. .0OO. and 1t was further stated that her income
 was s60O.00O year Immediately after the marriage the ] coul,Ie left the United States for | France. where the eXtravagant manner | in which they lived. attracted cOnsld- ! erable attention. About five years af- ! ter the marriage the count and COun- i teas de Castollane were reported to be ! financially embarrassed, it being al- i Ieged that the count mad already spent about S7.0OO.O O0O of his wife's money | An adjustment o' the affairs of the count and countess ocean" necessary, and considerable litigation followed, 1 with thc result that the Gould family ! iutorvpued and the income of the coun- l tess was cut down to S2oO. .O00.
 i On February of t'v present year,
 the Countess dc Custodian" crt"r"l l l pIeit for a divorce, tue hearing of | which hogan before Judge Ditte