The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-14
CASTELLANE DIVORCE
 CASE PROCEEDINGS
COUNT DECLARES HE DOES NOT INTEND TO FILE CROSS
 BILL.

Feels Badly Over Affair and Expresses
 Continued Regard and Affection for
 the Countess--Lawyers at Work Ar
 ranging Financial Details--If These
 Are Satisfactorily Adjusted the Bill
 of Complaint is Likely to be Ma
 terialIy Modified.
 Paris, Feb. 13.-Count Boni de Cas- tellane had long conference to-day with the lawyers of the countess, his Wife. This was one of the several n eetings at which the two parties con cerned have carefully gone over the financial features of the case with the view of determining the exact form of the future procedure and ultimate de- cree. In the meantime the countess bill of complaint is being prepared, but has not yet been filed, as the form will depend upon the pending conferences over financial affairs. If these are sat- isfactorily adjusted the countess bill of complaint is likely to be materially modified so as to contain only incom- patibility and other grounds within tde statute but avoiding allegations of a scandalous nature.
 However the conferences are not for the purpose of reconciliation as all con- cerned, including the count and countess and their lawyers, appear to recognize the futility of any further at- tempt to re-unlte the family.
 The present indications, therefore are that after the parties reach tinan- cial understanding the bill will be mod flied and a decree entered by mutual consent. This decree probably will be for separation as the French law permits such decree being extended to complete divorce after three years. Thus far, however, the countess has not decided whether the bill shall ask for a complete annulment of her mar riage. Her friends are rather inclined to restrict the decree to a separation as this would prevent the remarriage of either party within three years, thus putting an end to the rumor that the countess intends to marry again, which her friends characterize as absurd Until the bill is finally framed and filed the courts will not possess a document explicitly setting forth the grounds of the action.
 The preliminary plea did not enter in- to the merits of the case, but was a formality under the French law where- by the wife must ask the courts per mission to begin an action against her husband. In order to sustain this plea the countess presented papers estab- fishing a prima facie right to begin an action against her husband, These prima facie papers did not specify the names of tile correspondents but recit- ed incidents in which the count is al- legged to be implicated The present ne- gotlations tend to further eliminate these names from appearing during the official proceedings. As a result of the countess prima facie showing the court has awarded her the temporary care of her children and separatee domicile at the Castellane mansion on the Avenue DeBois de Boulogne. The effect of this interlocutory order Is to exclude the count from the mansion as the law considers 1t to be incompatible for two separate domiciles to exist un- der the same roof The countess re- mains there with the children and she expects to be joined soon by members of the Gould family.
 Count Boni expresses to friends his deep desolation over the affair and as- serts his continued affection for hls wife and children. He pays the fullest tribute to the wifely loyalty of the countess and does not intend to file cross bill.