The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-02-09
AREA Of SCANDAL
GROWING GREATER
COUNTESS CASTELLANE FINALLY
DETERMINES TO NO LONGER
TOLERATE iNTRIGuES.
NO REGARD FOR TITLE
Love for Children Alone Prompts Her
to Seek Separation Rather Than ~
Divoree.-Rejeets All =
OVertures.

Paris, Feb. s. The area of the Cas-,
| telane scandal is widening. 1t was
/ learned tonight on the highest au-
thority that the Countess has finally
| determined 10 reject all of Count
Boni's oyertures for a reconciliation
and press her suit for legal separa-
tion, but not complete divorce, no
matter how many regulations of
women in the highest circles Of
French soc ETY. may be shattered.
II is only love for her children that
deters the Countess from seeking a
divorce. The fact that under the
French law Divorces cannot retain
their husbands titles has not in
fluenced the Countess in seeking a
separation rather than an absolute di-
voyce.
Countess de Castellane has procured
by means known only to her legal ad-
visers, absolute proof of her husbands
turpitude. This proof, a friend of the
Countess told the Associated Press rep
resentative tonight, is so abundant
and unshakable that the Count will
not dare to oppose the Countess legal
demand for a separation.
Three Women Involved.
The Countess has, her friends de-
clare tonight. proof sufficient to con-
vct no less than three correspondents
instead of the one titled woman whose
name Partisan gossips have most per-
sistently coupled with that of the
Count
Oddly enough another of the three
Is an untitled woman who belongs to
world-famous French family, not,
however, of haute finance, Ike the
Duchess, but prominent haute in dus-
trie. The third woman. while a mem
Der of high society, is not Of promi-
nent family.
Countess de Castellane's evidence
Ii Is positively asserted, is 50 perfect
that the Count cannot offer the slight.
est defense, whether the number Of
correspondents named be one or three.
The Countess initiated the neces'
sary preliminary legal proceedings for
a separation on February I. On that
day the official referee, after vainly
suggesting the desirability of recon.
in accordance with the GUS
tom, referred the Countess to Judge
Diete, president of the first division of
the civil court. as required by law.
Countess is Determined.
Thereupon the court advised the
Countess to take advantage of the
twenty days the law allows between |
the filing of a petition for separation
and the preliminary hearing to recon-
slider her determination.
1t is the existence Of this interreg- |
mum of twenty days that causes the
Counts friends and family to hope |
that reconciliation may be effected. |
They say the Countess demand for a
separation is due TO a determination
born of sudden fit of anger or pas.
sion. The Countess advisers tonight
say the interregnum will not change
her present determination to procure
a separation.
These advisers said. furthermore,
the Countess initiated the legal pro-
,eedings, not through sudden burst
Of anger but after long and mature |
that the Countess is
not given 10 fits of passion, but real
izes that the end has come. and that
an irrevocable separation Is necessary |
10 her future happiness and the best
welfare Of her children. Her legal pro
ceedings were begun, not on the Inn
pulse of the moment. but after long
with her lawyers.
the Gould family in New
York were consulted before the court
was cannot be learned
On February 20 she must again face
Judge Diete. Friends Of the Countess
DECLARE tonight that in the interim the
Count must realize his position and
bow TO the inevitable. The Counts
friends make much Of the fact that
he Countess sends the children daily
% see their father, but that Is merely
4 concession dictated by law. One Of
he Countess chief advisers said to-
night: I'VE now see no prospect of re-
despite all that the
Counts friends tell you. The breach
between the couple is widening. If
lnything"
ANOTHER REPRIEvE.