The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-08
LAWYERS
 THE CAUSE fge of Count Boni' s
 Attorney. WANT TO GET GOULD MONEY Court Room in Paris Crowded to
 Doors.
Maisre Cruppi in His semming-UI Speech Declares That Freneh Nobleanam Wanted whole
 rortune or Nothing.

Paris. Nov. 1.-The court room tn the Palace of Justice occupied by the Tribunal Of First Instance of the Seine, Judge Ditte presiding, was again crowded to the doors this morning when the hearing of the divorce suit brought by the Countess de Castellane (former. ly Anna Gould) against her husband. Count Boni. was resumed.
 Maitre Cruppi of counsel for the Countess, in resuming the presentation of her case. briefly reviewed the points he had covered last week. referring to the leckless fashion in which the Count had spent millions of the. Countess's money. while allowing her only a nig- gardly few hundred francs monthly for pin money, on one occasion brutally refusing to increase her allowance to S20e a month.
 Counsel declared that the proof of the the Counts infldellty and cruelty cera- tained in the thirteen allegations made last week was sufficient to justify q divorce without summoning witnesses. As evidence of the Countess's gener- oslfy, counsel cited the agreement oz 1898, by which the Counts father and mother were guaranteed c life income of s5,s00 and $1,o0O. respectively .and again laid special stress on the Count ess's intention not to abandon the country of her adoption, but to rear her boys as Frenchmen.
 Maitre Cruppi then plunged directly into the Counts maneuvers since the divorce proceedings were instituted, so reconuuer his wife's affections.
 Bompa Campaign
 After the failure of the attempt at arranging a reconciliation, February i, when the countess was granted the temporary custody of her children Count Boni began a systematic cam@ paign, writing to the countess letters filled with avowals of sincere repen . tance. suppiications for pardon pas gionata words and professions of uF- dying love. The counts letters dc. scribed his life as being wrecked anfs said he was unable to live without her.
 'sYou5 have been my liEes he declar- ed in one of his letters; your ahsencs will be my death. Take me back oaes more I win siive only -ef you Lei me embrace you and once more Feel you in my arms" and so on. On February 25 the countess sent a cold reJoinder, informing the coun1 that she had suffered too much and had lost all affection fer him and con. fidence in his honor ar q veracity, COD cludIng with the statement that she found him "disgu IttnH !"
 The counts tone changed. The nexc day he sent to the countess letter in which he upbraided her for being "a mad woman, actuated by nate ana veaugefulness" and saying that thetr children would some day reproach her for her 'spitefulness.
 But the count soon resumed writing love letters to the countess begging to be allowed to see rer and predicting that he would soon die. The letters continued until the middle of Sep tember, when the count wrote that he would not long survive, pleading to see the countess and asking her to at least grant him q supremO favor, saying:
 If I am in danger, come. Do not let me die alone like an abandoned log. It was then, said Maitre Cruppi that the Countess, worn out with her husbands insincerity. wrote him three postal cards, one of which read:
 My response Is the refusal of a re- spectable woman to see such llber- tine"
 The wording of the other postal cards was equally emphatic, one reading:
 "Do not think I am so stupid as Mad anne X. imagines."
 With Profound SeOrn.
 The last postal card was signed With my profound scorn.
 Continuing Maitre Cruppi declared that the Counts paternal rights would be amply protected.
 The children will remain in France and their father would have opportun- fly to see them and share in the di- rection of their education.
 Counsel described the Countess's gen. erous offer to settle $30,000 a year on the Count for life, which the latter re- EN full settlement of his outstanding debts He was offered $s0.000 and S20O,OOO to pay his personal debts, but wanted $50,- 900 and the settlement of all his debts In making the offers Maitre Cruppi said the Cuntess gave way to an impulse to assure fitting existence for the father of her children. but she now stotod on her rights.
 There was fiutter of excitement just before counsel closed his summing up when he referred to a forgery in the possession of the other side, de- signed ito blacken the character" of a prominent attorney and a mon conspic- uous in public life But, Maitre Cruppi said, he would not pursue the matter unless compelled to do so and concluded with the claim that his case had been made out and a glowing appeal against calling witnesses. which, he said, would only bring disaster and ruin on others
 Maitre Gruppl made no concealment of the fact that the Countess aided her husband in his electoral campaign last May.
 After the court had taken a recess, Maitre Bennett, of counsel for Count Boni. began his reply by describing the dreams of luxury of a young Amer ican heiress when she married a French noblemsn. resulting in making the life Of extravaganza on which she entered quite natural to her.
 COuntesG's AEectiOnate Letters. Counsel then read affectionate letters written by the Countess to the court. excusing her inability to furnish funds | because her brother George would not supply them. TO show that the Count made sacrifices as we'll as his wife, Maitre Bennett said that he sold his share of the ancestral forest of Bueny ir order to make the first payment. S0,000, on the Malakof Avenue prop erty.
 The divorce proceedings, counsel said, were due to the evil counsel of mischief makers. and particularly to the machinations of Edmond Kelly, ] the American lawyer, whose object was 7 Go obtain big fee. Without adverse influences. counsel was sure the