The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-11-22
Anna Gould Divorced.

AT Paris, Nov. II. the tribunal
of first instance of the Seine,
Judge Ditto presiding, granted
a divorce to the Countess de Cas-
tellane, formerly Anna Gould, of
New York, and gave her the Gus
tody, of her children, who, how
ever, will not be allowed to be
taken from France without the
consent of their father, Count
Boni de Castellane.
The text of the decree does not
go into the details of the coun-
tess's bill of particulars, saying
t"Inasmuch as Madame De Cas-
tellane submitted letters and doc
uments, several of which were
from the count himself, establish
ing sufficiently that since their
marriage, notably in 1898, 1902
and 1905, he had relations and
correspondence with various
women of easy virtue, which was
most offensive to his wife, thus
rendering himself guilty of acts
justifying a divorce, and as he
had failed to establish reconcil-
iation, the petition of Madame
De, Castellane is granted"
The counts demands for an
"alimentary allowance of $50, 900
annually" was denied on the
ground that the guilty party in
a divorce loses all the advan-
tages accorded by marriage con-
tract or the course of married
life, and consequently the court
refused to allow not only the
counts original claim for $4,000
per annum, but the $4,000 which
| the countess offered and which it
now seems the count claimed to
have accepted October 25.
The decree orders the coun-
tess TO send the children on
Thursday and Sundays to their
grandmother, the Marquis de
Castellane, and their surrender, to
their father for a week at New
Years and Easter and for Z
month in the summer.
Anna Gould, the youngest
daughter of the late Jay Gould,
was married to Count Ernest
Boniface de Castellane. at the
New York home of her brother,
George ]. Could, March A, 1895,
the late Archbishop Corrigan Of
fciating. Miss Gould's dowry, it
was said, was $1s, 100000, and it
was further stated that her in
come was 100000 year. I'm
mediately after the marriage the
couple left the United States for
France, where the extravagant
manner in which they lived at
ltracted considerable attention.
About five years after the mar
riage it was reported that the
Count and Countess de Castel-
lane were financially embarrass-
ed, it being alleged that the
count had already spent about
81 100000 of his wife's money. An
adjustment of the affairs of tie
count and countess became nee
essary and considerable litigation
followed, with the result that the
Gould family interviewed and the
income of the countess was cut
down to 100000
On February 5, of the present
ear, the Countess De Castellane
entered a plea for divorce, the
hearing of which began before
Judge Ditto, Maitrc Cruppi ap-
pearing for the countess and
Maitre Bonnet for the count. Evil
dence in the shape of correspon-
dence between the count and
women was presented and the
case was adjourned to November
IL, when the final pleas were
made and the suit adjourned un-
til November II. On the follow
ing day, November 8, the case of
the counts creditors was present
de to the court and adjourned for
two weeks.
The three children of the Cas-
tellanes are George. Boni and Jay
the Youngest being the namesake
of his mothers father, the late
Jay Gould.