The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-11-15
Countess de casteIlane Gets Di-
vorce and Counts Demand
For Cash Is Rejected.
CHILDREN GO TO MOTHER.
She Is Not Permitted to Take Them
From France Without Their Fathers
Consent, but Court May Give Pern1is-
sion--Mne. Gould New Title of For
naer New York Girl.

lane, formerly Miss Anna Gould of
New York, was granted an absolute
divorce from her spendthrlft husband,
Count Boni de Castellane
By decree of the tribunal of the
Seine she lis awarded the custody of
her children, but will not be allowed
to take them from France without the
consent of their father.
Liberty and life of ease and lux
ury for the daughter of Jay Gould and
poverty and the loss Of all social and
political honors for the scion Of the
house Of CRstellane is what the decree
of the court means.
The end of the famous case came
suddenly. The court brushed aside the
demand of the counts lawyers for an
examination Of the witnesses, and, as
anticipated, the public prosecutor did
not even ask to be heard
The counts demand for an 'salimen-
tary allowance of $4,000 annually"
was pronounced by the court to be
without foundation in law and was
rejected
Must Ksep Children In France.
The only point decided in the counts
favor was the imposition Of an in
hibitlon on the countess to take the
children, George, Boni and Jay de Cas-
tellane, out of France without their
fathers consent
In its decree the court states that it
is not necessary to hear witnesses.
"inasmuch as Nine de CasteiIane sub
mitted letters and doauments, several
OF which were from the count himself,
their marriage he had relations and
correspondence with various women
of easy virtue which was most Of
fensive to a WIFE thus rendering HIM
self guilty of acts justifying divorce,
ard as he had failed to establish a rec
onciliation the petition of Nine. do
Castellane Is granted"
The counts demand for an "alimen-
tary allowance of $4,000 nually'
was denied on the ground that the
guilty party in divorce loses all the
advantages accorded either by mar
riage contract or the course Of mar
ried life and consequently the court
refused to allow not only the counts
original claim for $500 900 per annum,
but the $4,000 which the countess Of
fered and which it now seems the
count say he accepted Oct. %.
Count's Demand Denied.
The court also took pfecautien
against any unreasonable attitude Oh
the part of the count against allowing
his wife to take her children out of
France by providing that in case of
his refusal judicial authorization could
be granted.
Under the decree the countess is to
send the children on Thursdays and
Sundays to their grandmother, the
Marquise de Casteilane. and let thSlS
father have them for week Mt New
Years and Easter and for month IN
the summer.
Mime GeIild, as the former Countess
de Castellane will hereafter be known,
her title having ceased with the gram
ing OF the divorce. expressed the greet
est satisfaction when she received the
news at her residence on Avenue Mala-
koff
Helm Gould With Sister.
Helen Gould, who will remain here
until after Christmas. vas with the
countess ut the time. Nine. Gould has
no present intention Of leaving Paris.
Although the court denied the counts
application for an annuity, there is
ground for the statement that Nine.
Gould. in pursuance of her generous
conduct throughout, Will make @ lib
eral allowance to the father of her chill
dren. 1t is also believed that SO far as
the creditors are concerned the count
ess will settle all the legitimate bills
for household expenses, but she will
continue to resist to the utmost the
payment of money owed to usurers
under whatever disguise and borrowed
by the count for his own purposes and
Without her consent.
The decree brings an end to an un-
happy married lifs the American girl
noble French family, practically tax
ing him from the hall bedroom of the
house of an obscure French dress
maker in New York and giving him ac-
cess to the. Gould millions.
Squanaered Eight Millions.
OF these he squandered more than
SS,000.O00 on women, gambling and all
sorts of e2cesses, and today he has
more than 100000 OF debts.
Eventually, after a series of separa-
tions, which were patched up By the
counts father through the good offices
Of the Gould family. Boni's liaisons be-
came SO fagrant as to cause the count
ess to turn from him with loathlng.
Then the proceedings for absolute dl-
vorce were Instituted.
Anna Gould and the Count de Cas-
tellane we're hapHied in Ney York on
March I. 1854 TWO ceremonies were
performed One was 81 supreme Court
Justice Aaaraws aud the other BY
Archbishop CerriRan
Boni came to this country in the
spring OF 1894. He was looking for a
fich wife. Runner had him engaged to
rginia Fair, now Mrs. w. X. Van
sspilt. r.. asia 10 cunsuelp Wander
+ now tae saaschess 81 Marlborough.