Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-02-17
BONI OUT IN Cold;
WIFE HAS CASTLE.
COURT ORDERS THAT WIFE
PULL IN LATCH STRING AND
TIE A BIG KNOT IN IT. -
COUNT WILL NOT FILE
Asserts He Is Almost Is
Over Affair 0maq
COUNT WILL NOT FILEs

Advise sepak
Paris, Febru Count Boni
de Castellaine nj d home He
is disconsola( HE loss of the
Gould milI6l has told his
friends thu most heart bro
Ken ,51 proceedings. He
lle and children. He
..yl 4qlless tribute to the wifely
OF The Countess and does not
]lnedd to file a cross bill.
'nAs result of the Countess prima
facie showing, the court has awarded
her the temporary care of her chill
dren and separate domicile at the
Castellaine mansion on the Avenue
Du Bots de Boulogne. The effect of
this lnterlocutory order is to exclude
the Count from the mansion, as the
law considers it to be incompatible
for two separate domicies to exist
under the same roof. The Countess
remains there with the children and
she expects to be joined soon by
members of Howard Gould's family.
The Count has had a long confer
ence with the lawyers Of the Coun-
tess, his wife. This was one of sew
eral meetings at which the two par
ties concerned have carefully gone
over the financial features Of the case
with the view of determining the ex-
act form of the future procedure and
ultimate decree.
In the meantime the Countess bill
of complaint is being prepared, but
not yet been filed, as the form will
depend upon the pending conferences
over financial affairs. If these are
satisfactorily adjusted the Countess
bill of complaint is likely to be ma
terially modified so as to contain only
incompatibility or other grounds
within the statute, but avoiding allie
cations of a scandalous nature
| for the purpose of reconciliation, as
all concerned, including the Count
and Countess and their lawyers, APP
pear to recognize the futility of any
further attempt to reunite the fam
lily. The present indications, there
fore, are, that after the parties reach
a financial understanding the bill will
ne modified and a decree entered by
mutual consent. This decree prob
ably will be for separation, as the
French law permits such a decree be-
ing extended to complete divorce aft
err three years.
Thus far, however, the Countess
has not decided whether the bill sail
ask for complete annulment of her
marriage. Her friends are rather in
clined to restrict the decree to sep
aration as this would prevent the re-
marriage of either party within three
years, thus putting an end to the ru-
NOR that the Countess intended to
marry again, which her friends char
acterize as absurd.
Until the bill is finally framed and
filed the courts will not formally
possess the document explicitly set
ting forth the grounds of the action
The preliminary plea did not enter
into the merits of the case, but was
formality under the French law
whereby the wife must ask the
courts permission to begin an action
against her husband.
In order to sustain this plea the
Countess presented papers establish.
ing a prima facia right to begin an
action against her husband. These
prima facie papers did not specify
the names of the women in the case
but recited incidents in which the
count is said to be implicated. The
present negotiations tend to further
eliminate these names from appear
ing during the official proceedings.