The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-11-08
AMERICAN WIVES
GAIN SYMPATHY.
Marlborough and Castellane Cases Not
Believed to Have Bean Half
Told as Yet

NEW YORK, Nov. 5.---Cable dis
patches today tell of the troubles of the
Marlboroughs and CGstellanes, the all
absorbing topic. Special interest il
them is contained in the facts of how
the Castellane scandal got out
One day, only a few months after her
marriage eleven years ago, the countess
approached her husband, who was writ
ing. Leaning affectionately on his shout
der she glanced down at his desk and
read:
Thou alone are lacking to my happiness
BONi.
Realizing that she had seen the con-
Gliding words of his love missive, the
count sprang to his feet and in tower
ing rage struck lis wife in the face. Nor
was his anger checked by any lingering
shame because of servants presence.
Finds Dummy in Bed
Maitre Cruppi told. too, of the coun-
tess going to her husbands bedroom one
morning She called him; no answer.
HE sleeps soundly," she thought and
approached the bed, where a motionless
figure was stretched. 1t was a dummy.
AS the countess left the bed chamber
she met her husband coming from the
room of one of their guests, married
woman, who bears a noble and historic
name, whom lHe lawyer tulItu 'HlS
MADAME A He read Il letter signed
by this woman; the countess found 1t,
soon after the episode of the lay figure,
in an unlocked writing desk in the Cas-
tellane chateau.
Begged for $500; Got Slap
The lawyer declared that one day the
countess begged her husband for an adj
dtional 5000 for her own purposes. lie
struck her in the face as rebuke TO her
extravaganza. While he has been squan-
dering $SOO0,0O0 she has had only $40
600, besides her pin money, with which
to maintain her position.
In August. 1900. Count Boni, to
avenge himself on her brother, George
Gould, determined to abandon his wife
and did. in fact, leave their residence.
He left a letter saying he had only TO-
600 francs on which to live until he
could earn his bread by the sweat of his
brow. The letter is only a silly appeal
to Il woman's feelings; in it he calls the
countess Poor Puss" and Little
Friend" and tells her he is going to
China.
London Full of Talk.
Not in years has London society
supped so tull of scandal as over the
quarrel between the American Duchess
of Marlborough and her noble husband.
1t is the absorbing topic of conversation
in Mayfair. Every one, particularly the
dukes friends. has new information"
concerning it which the auditors greed
lily swallow, while they roll their eyes i'll
pious horror.
Meantime the duchess maintains her
accustomed womanly pose; her sweet
dignity is unrutiied; she seems deaf to
the din of gossip.
The deed of separation has not been
agreed upon ye'. For the present the
three children are in the care of their
grandmother. the Marchinoess of Bland
ford, at Rlenhem.
Hints on Dukes Side.
The duke has engaged Sir George
Lewis the famous and fashionable law
yer, to maintain his cause. The calm
duchess has placed her interests in the
no less capable hands of the Hon.
Charles Russell. son of the late lord
chief justice.
His friends now venture to hint that
charges tar more serious and compro-
missing than incompatibiity are made
by both sides. The most daring of them
whisper that the duchess made to her
husband n defiant confession of astound-
ing character. and that the duke is de-
termined to get a divorce
A week ago yesterday the duchess
telegraphed to Woodstock ordering that
all her belongings be removed from Blen-
helm palace to Sunderland house, the
town residence, where she is living in
quiet.
Takes Famous Necklace.
Among the duchess possessions re-
moved from Benheim are the famous
pearls, her fathers present, besides the
necklace of black pearls she had as a
bridal gift.
The duke is making arrangements al
ready to let Blenheim. which he cannot
possibly afford to maintain without
American money. For example. it is
said to cost $1,000 a year to keep clean
the hundreds of windows in the palace.
He will live probably in one of the
small houses on his estate, as Wood
stock, the principal dover house, is let