The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-05
Count Boni de CasteIIane Cables
His Cousin
That Reports of Family Dis
agreement Are Untrue.
STORY FROM PARIS.
Says Anna Gould Has Brought
Suit Against Her Husband
Charging Him With Being At
tentiYe to Another Woman.

New York. Feb. 5.-Count DeGon-
taut Biron. a cousin of Count Boni de
Casteilane, says that he has received
from Paris the following cablegram:
Say that it is not true.-Boni."
Assuming that the cablegram refer
red to the report that the Countess de
Castellane contemplated an action for
separation from her husband, the
Count De GontaUt Biron who is d fire.
quent visitor at the home of the couple
in Avenue Malakoff, Paris, declared
that denial confirmed his own opinion
regarding the report, that it is wholly
untrue.
George Gould has assured reporters
that newspaper cable from Paris was
the first intimation he had received of
the reported intention of his sister
Anna to sue her husband for a divorce.
Il have not heard of any trouble be-
1 tween my sister and her husband,
said Mr.. Gould. in fact, I am not in
a position to discuss their affairs. be-
cause I know little about them"
Former Judge John F. Dillon, who is
chief counsel for the Goulds, when
asked if in the event of a. separation of
the Castellanes the counts income
would be cut off, said:
Under the terms of her fathers will
Anna Gould gets only the income from
her share of her fathers estate. That
estate IS in this country and this is the
place where the income is paid. It is
paid only to her or her legal repre-
sentative for her and her children.
There is no power in the French courts
that could divert any part of it to the
Count de Castellane.''
It is understood that the members of
/ the Gould family viii carry out the
agreement to pay off the counts $4,
100000 of debts that he contra cted in
the years Immediately following the
wedding in 1895. The Goulds agreed
to let 100000 of the counts wife's in
come of 100000 a year go to the pay
ment of the counts back debts, leav-
ing the countess only 5000, 600 a, year
income in the meantime.
It is stated that a lot of persons who
have become creditors of the count
since those negotiations viii have to
look to him alone for their pay.
The Story From Paris.
Paris Feb. 5.-To hide a scandal which
would shake all Paris, the Countess de
CasteIlane, who was Anna Gould of New
York before her marriage, will not seek
a divorce from her husband, Count BOni
/ de Castellane.
She has, however retained Edmond
Kelly, an American lawyer, to secure
for her a judicial separation Mr.. Kelly
has instructed Maitre Cruppi to begin
! the proceedings.
A judicial separation win free the
countess from her husband without
making allegations against the count,
which would necessarily drag in the
/ name OF the woman Will WllOAll ne II
said to be entangled.
Fer there is a woman in the case, of
/ course. The particular woman in this
/ case is the wife of member of great
financial family of the highest repute.
Her family will move heaven and earth
/ to prevent her name from becoming
public. The newspapers have not men
toned her name, as action for libel
! certainly would follow at once.
Count Bonis attentions to the woman
have been so marked as to excite pub
/ lie attention. The countess, who could
not help learning of the affair, requested
( him to give up the WOman'S acquafnt-
| ance and several scenes .ensued.
Finally, however, the count agreed to
do as his wife asked. whereupOn the
woman furious at being discarded,
cunningly laid a trap into which the
/ count innocently fell.
The countess, forewarned that Count
/ Castellane would call upon her rival,
4 took steps to ascertain whether he did
so. On ascertaining that he had scalled,
she consulted friends, who advised a
! separation.
/ established a legal domicile at the Hotel
Bristol and called in her lawyers. Count
Boni, however, Immediately left the
/ Castellane palace in the Bots de Bou-
/ Iogne placing it entirely at her dis
! posal. She has, therefore, left the Hotel
/ Bristol and returned to her home. The
courts have granted her Professionally
/ the custody of her three sons, George,
Jay and Boni, and they are now with
/ her.
1t is learned from an excellent source
4 that every effort is being made to ar
range matters between Count and Coun-
! tess de Castellane without any further
publicity Failing in this, it is hoped
} the Castellanes will consent to allow
the case to go to court without bringing
in any third parties