The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-17
OFCASTELLANES
FRENCH COURT HEARS MORE OF
 ANNA COULD.
OhAracters of B0ni and Helie Are Flouted By Lawyers In Con-
 test For the
 Children

Paris. Dec. 16.--The hearing of the suit brought by Count BonI de Castei- lane agaiIlst tlie Princess do sagan for giving the custody of his children to his mother, was continued today.
 M. Bonnet was heard in retolnder for the count. He read letter rom @ tha Count renouncing the petition Tor se0 900 annually for the maintenance of the children, but insisting more efn- phatiealIy than ever that the children he connded to the care of his mother.
 rhe relInouishinent of the financial demand came as surprise, m spite ot the fact that such course was maj cated at the close of the nrsr nearing of the case. of the modification of the petition or his client. Nj. Bonnet launched into a vigorous denunciation of his adver- saTv He charged that on many points the Attendants did not dare to meet the allegations of the Count citing particularly the allegation that the Princess de Sagan was reaoy 70 leaVe her present husband.
 "They did not dare challenge thls statement" the lawyer said. "because they knew that the proposed separa, tion has been formally communicated to De Castellane's attorneys.
 continuinK, M. Bonnet said that all of the offers of settlement made 5y the Princess de Sagan were conaitohed upon the Counts remuneration or DIS children. hut the Count refused to sell either himself or his children. The Princess had told Judge Ditte that If the children were taken from her she would disinherit them, thus proving that in her eyes everything was e question of money.
 Referring to the charges that De Castellane had dissipated his wires fortune. M. Bonnet insisted that the Countess was just as much responsible ak was he for the royal extrava- gances'' such as the Malakoff Palace. the Chateau Marais and the Chateau Bazaar which lone cost sS00.OOO.
 The lawyer particularly resented George Gouldrs share in the defense, saying that now that the question or money had been eliminated, MT. Gould was pIaying the mysterous role of "Crawford in the Humbert affair
 As A matter of fact Mir Gould had always opposed the marriage of his sister to the Prince de Sagan, and he only finally consented on condition that there should be separation of property.
 will get another divorce and make a more unfortunate third marriage?" asked M. Bonnet. No. can reas- sure him. The Princess can find mo- body worse than De Sagan."
 The lawyer then asked the court to order the taking of testimony on cer- tain points which the defense had de- clined to meet.
 Tn conclusion he appealed to the court to withdraw the three children from the custody of their mother. who had married a man renounced by one of the greatest families in France and who had spent a month in prison, and placa them in the care of the mother of~the Count. whose only pur- nose was to direct her grandchildren in the right path.
 The letter of the Count Is addressed to M. Bonnet and 1t Is couched in an eloquent phraseology of outraged manhood It begins:
 Indignant. at the peradious and ly- ing insinuations of the Princess and her family representing that my only desire is to obtain a big allowance, now ask for myself and my mother only the custody of the children; renounce with pleasure the request for an allowance"
 JContlnuinE, the Count calls M. Bon- net to witness with what outraged l feelings he rejected the pecuniary of fers of the Prince and Princess de Sagan and George Gould, the Princess brother.
 .'The new and. unexpected attitude of George Gould" de Castellane writes ''who regards this suit simply as a | vulgar affair of money and who be- lIeves that his golden authority can gild the marriage of his sister with a tarnished man, compels me more strongly than ever to insist on the withdrawal of the children from the house of which the Prince is the orna- ment and from surroundings Where hey will learn only one thing-that honor is nothing and money every thing. that money covers every base ness and that 1t will buy every con- \ science.
 , ''The decision ] have taken win