The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-08

PAkIN. WV - uV CARBOHYDRATE
sss. which to-day was again up for hear
Nc IN the Tribunal of the Seine. Judge
Di,te presiding, may drag on for some time
4 a demand made by Count Castellans's
LAWYER. IS granted by the Court.
So rar he case has been merely presenta-
Mons by counsel on both sides, which in
his country may re sufficient for an award
q Judgment il the Court so wills. but to-day
Count Castelllne's counsel, MGitre Bonnet,
denounced the representations of counsel
'or the Countess as most himsy evidence
and demanded that the Court order an
INQUIRY. II this is done all the persons
named by both sides will be summoned
before the Court and examined as witnesses
IN private. Subsequently their testimony
vii he read in open court.
Natrr CuIrTi, counsel FOR Countess
Casttllane, to-day corTleted his Trelir /
nary TUsrntafion OF the case and Matt re
Bonnet o"ened for the defend ant. A some
what sensational turn was given to the
'ral by NJ. Bonnet, who CHARGED hat the
case u the Countess was wholly the work
Of Edmond Kelly, whom he referred to
With some asperity as not only provoking
me liti0ation but as purchasing evidence.
Mr.. Kelly is counsel for the American EN-
bassy. and is consequently a conspicuous
iglre in the American colony. Mr.. Kelly
has not yet replied to these CHAIR es. nor
did NJ. Cruppi to-day make answer for him,
but il is safe to say that the last OF this
sspect Of the case has not been heard.
In opening NJ. Cruppi said that last Janu-
ary, when the Countess toe up her resi-
dence at the Hotel Bristol, her husband
,risd to force his way to her. The CON
-ierge was ordered to Lrevept this. A date
vas fixed for a reconciliation, but the effort
allied. The Count wrote 10 his wife
that he had learned she had consented to
help his political campaign, and he thanked
her, adding:
Il hope / may die soon, but I shall at
east have the recollection Of my love for
YOU. Another will perhaps take my
place and you will say to him what you
used to say to me-
In another letter the Count wrote: IF
Ihsve committed a fault 1 beg your pardon.
II / have caused you pain l repent. 1 wish
to die because I can nc longer live with
You.'
To this letter he added a postscript,
saying: Il cherish the remembrance Of the
Kiss you gave me on January 27 AT 3 o'clock"
In March, after the suit for separation
Rad been changed to one for divorce, the
Count wrote that he was not guilty OF three
quarters of the offences attributed to him.
In March the Countess wrote f~orbidding
any moro letters from her husband. In
Ibis letter she said: Il have lost all feeling
FOR you. / find you infect.'
The Count again wrote complaining that
the Countess passed him without recog-
nizing him, like the milky way passing
scross the sky He said he was in misery
worse than death. He was living in the
MIDST Of second class Englishmen. He
concluded Il embrace you with passion"
To this letter the Countess replied saying
that a self-respecting woman would not
receive the attentions Of a Ibertine like
MIN and closing with: Receive the OK
preston Of my profound contempt
NJ. Cruppi in approaching the conclusion
II his speech said the case was known in
social circles as the Panama of Society"
Turning to NJ. Bonnet he said;
You ave asked for money for N of
two reasons, either for your clients credi-
tors, in which case l will argue the point
With the creditors attorney, OF as alimony,
IN which case I will tell you that va will
not pay now hat the action Is not for q
separation. but for a divorce.P
Cruppi recited the terms offered by the
Countess last July. namely, Isl, 900 francs
a year and 1000 900 francs In cash for the
payment of his indivi dual debts, she to
pay the household debts. This offer the
Count refused, as he preferred not to receive
the 200, 900 francs and to wait to see whether
she could not be made 10 pay all his debts,
which proved to amount to 1000, 900 francs.
The Countess later repeated her offer,
with an increase OF the Counts annual
income when her estate should have been
cleared.
There was laughter in the court room
WIEN Cruppi read a telegram b Countess
sent to the Counts constituents Of Basses-
Apes, who had congratulated her on his
reelection TO the Chamber. In the tele-
gram she expressed regret that h had
married a rove instead Of an honest man.
One OF the Counts flowers Of speech in a
letter written to the Countess after her
brusque note already referred to. was this:
My heart is opening like a flower in the
sun
In opening for the defence NJ. Bonnet
.aid that, however violent the Countess's
stacks might be. the Count would never
fail to respect the wife who bears his name,
and he had no words to say that would
wound her. Counsel added hat he would
not deny the Counts extravaganza, but
the Countess in marrying him and coming
TO Paris could not expect to play the part
Of a society queen rDc the cost Of middle
class life. In Sgdree years the Countess
would not be- poorer, but richer by the
sale Of her palace in the Champs Ulysses,
rhe Chateau Marais and her art treasures.
de denled that the Count had limited her
to 300 francs a month. Since 1901 she had
bought 10000 francs worth OF jewelry.
When her husband deserted her in 1900
rt was because he protested against the
MANY OF the Gould family demanding
that he sell the palaces and treasures TO pay
his debts.
VI. Bonnet 6enied that the Count had
struck bis wife. When he was supposed
70 be brutalizing her she wrote him from
New York saying she was going to linger
there amid her own people. IL he wanted
to see Ler he could come to America. She
adde :.
i will not return at Ell unless you can
promise that the Marquise dc Castellane
1.-THE Count q mntherN will not come TO nv