The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-14

Paris, Nov. 14.-Stripped of textual
verbiage the formal counts upon
which the attorneys of the Countess
De Castellane asked for a divorce were
as follows:
Soon after his marriage Count
de Castellane began the purchase of
furniture at ridiculously exorbitant
prices and Immediately resold it.
When the plaintiff protested the count
abused her in the presence of ser
wants.
Upon the slightest pretexts
Count de CasteIlane created scenes
going to the extent of striking the
plaintiff In the course of one Of
these scenes at Rochecotte, during the
brutally pinched by her husband and
the next day while she was still suf-
fering from his violence, she revealed
the fact TO an American friend, who
was guest at the chateau.
3-During the summer of 1898,
and notably during a pleasure trip
which The Count de Castellane took
the count was Intimate with a mar
ried woman. Nine. A.
4-The count maintained a CORE
spondence with Nine. A." fixing the
dates for rendezvous through the in
termediary of '.Mre. X" and M. N"
in the Rue D'Mabeuge.
During the summer of 1905,
Count de Castellane had intimate
relations with Nine. B. He had
many meetings with her, principally at
the PAVILION OF st. James.
6-Durlng June, 1905, lady en-
tered the Count de Castelane's auto
mobile, dined with him at Vile
D'Avray and both later went to the
Pavilion of ST. James, where they
spent two hours.
During the same year, 1905.
Count de Castellane was intimate with
a woman who lived in furnished
room house in the Rue Castiglione.
SIN 1905. the Count de Castellane
iyaf To Nfv,nA n 11h
involved indiscretions. repeated rem
devious and automobile excursions.
objects forgotten in an autom bile and
found by the domestics making al
most public scandals Count de Cas-
tellane went frequently with this wO-
man to an apartment which he main
tanned at Neuilly-
9-In June, 1905, at the end of a
big reception at the mansion on the
Avenue MakloT, Count de Castellane
and Nine c." were found an hour
after alone in the garden and the
count was compelled to summon aid
wants who responded recognized
Mime. c. who left the mansion hur-
riedly-
9 (a)-In the absence of her nus
journey of IN. c. Mime. g." re-
ceived Count de Castellane every day
at her residence and upon his arrival
gave orders to the servants to turn
Castellane going one day to the resi-
dence of Nine. G." was told by the
servants that Mime. c." was not at
home, although at that time the
count was on the premises.
(b)-While m. c." was at Paris
two maids of Nine c." who were
mounting guard to permit Count de
Castellane to emerge by the back stair
way in case of the arrival of the hus-
band. did in reality see him SO de-
scend.
Q (c)-The servants of Mime. c."
were not ignorant that their mistress
met Count de Castellane and one of
them frequently, sometimes three times
a day, carried her letters to the count.
There were frequent scenes between
M O." and mime c." on the subject
of the Count de Castellane.
10=While the Countess de Castel-
lane was absent in America. Count de
Castellane was intimate with Nine.
D.. He dined with her in a private
room at the Cafe Anglais and ordered
orchids for the decoration of the table,
lion May IL, 1903. While the
Countess de Castellane was absent,
Count de Castellane took Nine. d. to
the Chateau Des Marais, where he
passed the afternoon with her
12-FOr several years Count de Cas-
tellane rented in Paris a number of
places for his rendezvous, in particular
NO. &c Rue La ROchefoucould, where
he was known under the name OF
Pascal No. 16 Rue De General-FOy,
the pavilion of St James. and No
Rue Cave, at Neuilly- At these ad-
dresses he received, to the knowledge
of several of his servants ana cnauI-
feurs the women with whom he was
intimate belonging to the monde and
the demi monde classes.
Here follows a long list Of dates ex-
tending from the years 1901 to 1905.
The text of the decree does not 90 into
the details of the countess bill of par
ticulars. ''inasmuch as Madame De
Castellane submitted letters and docu-
ments. several of which We're from the
count himself, establishing sufficiently
that since their marriage, notably In
1898. 1902 and 1905. he had relations
and correspondence with various wom-
en- of easy virtue, which was most or
fensive to a wife, thus rendering him
self guilty of acts justifying a divorce
and as he had failed to establish
reconciliation. the petition OF Madame
de Castellane is granted
The counts demand for an "alimen-
tary allowance of $4,000 annually
was denied on the ground that the
guilty party in divorce loses all the
ADVANTAGE accorded either by mar
rage contract or the course OF mar
ried life and consequently the court
refused to allow not only the counts
original claim for $4,000 per annum,
hut the $4,000 which the countess
offered and which it now seems the
count claimed to have accepted Octo-
Der Is.
The court also took precauIon
4 against any unreasonable attitude Of
the count toward allowing his wife TO
take her children out of France by
providinR that in case of his refusal
judicial authorization could be granted
The decree orders the countess to
send the children on Thursdays and
Sundays to their grandmother, the
Marouise de Castellane, and their sur
render to their father for a week at
New Years and Easter and for
month in the summer.
Was a Winfield Pioneer.
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