The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-26
GOULDS UNLUCKY IN
 THEIR MARRIAGES Three Out of Five Shipwrecked on the Matrimonial Sea DIAMONDS REMAIN DEAR Threatened Split In the Trust Has Been Patched Up-The "Ambu-
 lance Chaser" a Cry
 ing Evil.
 
DIAMONDS REMAIN DEAR
BY SEWElL HAGGARD.

BY SEWELL HAGGARD.
 New York, April Especial )-out of five marriages made by children of the late Jay Gould three have been failures; this record is unequalled in this country, at least in any family of social prom thence.
 Anna Gould, after a tempestuous voyage on the matrimonial sea, divorced Count Boni de Castellane, and now, according to report, she is to wed another noble man, Prince Helie de Sagan. Howard Gould has separated from his wife, who was Katherine Clemmons, the actress, and their differences are about to be aired in the courts. The latest member of the family to get into trouble is young Frank Gould, whose wife is suing him for d separation.
 George and Edwin Gould have found married life successful George married an actress Edith Kingdom, but from all accounts they have been very happy
 Anna Gould has had a spectacular career Before her marriage to Bonie de Castellane she was reported engaged to an actor and it was said that sne tilted him at the command of her family. Few htQullSS SOlGtilliACd III lllS NouhNAe AiNNS ' been as magnificent as hers. She and Count Bcni were married at the home of Mir and Mrs. George Gould, No. S57 Fifth avenue, on March 1, 1895.
 Count Boni, impoverished son of an aristocratic family, had met Miss Anna in Europe. Afterward he came here to court, indeed, it was reported that his expedition was financed by certain of lis friends. He came with enough trunks f-., .4, H his pink and white complexion and yellow hair had gained him the sobriquet of the powder puff in Paris. But he was an athlete and a sportsman, perfect ill dress and manners, most imperfect in morals as it proved.
 Miss Anna Gould was then only 21 years old, slight, dark, reserved girl ol medium height She had big, soft, brown eyes and a mass of raven hair.
 Count Bcni assured his friends that he received a settlement of s2000,000 from his wife on their wedding day. 1t was an- nounced, too, that the brides fortune was ST, ,00G, ,000-or certainly the interest on that sum, which had been settled on her with the proviso that it should revert to her in case of divorce or legal separation.
 The Count and Countess returned to Paris Using his wifes money, tine
 
 They built on the Rue Malikoff a palace like the Petit Trianon at Versailles and their entertainments surprised even Paris.
 In the fourth year of their union it was repeatedly asserted both ina this country and in France that the Counts financial affairs were in bad condition. and although he always emphatically denied he was being pressed by creditors. the announce ment came from Paris, in 1900, that his xyff rlappd tbe French courts under the trusteeship of her brother, George J. Gould. It was stated at the time that this measure was taken at the request of the Gould family, which had been alarmed by the prodigal extravaganza of the Castellanes, who In four years spent $3,000,000 were involved in debt to the extent of s4,4000OO, while the annual income from the dowry of the Countess had dwndled to $600,000.
 The stories of the cruelties, the indigni- ties she suffered is too recent to have been forgotten. We need only recall the speech of her lawyer Maitre Cruppi. set ting forth what he would prove and did prove. He said the Countess came upon the first proof of her husbands unfatihful- ness in 1898, when she found a madrigal her husband had written to one of his women friends. He slapped her for having read it. One incident effectively related by Maitre Cruppf put the court room on the qui vive. He said that one evening when suspicion stirred her anguished heart Countess Anna was reassured by learning that her husband had gone to bed She went to his bedroom, where she found not her husband, but a dummy figure in the bed. Again in 1898 the Countess put her jewels in a casket to which she and her husband had keys She found there correspondence from Mime. A., whose hand writing she knew Madam had written to Count Boni that they would soon be in their own home again, adding:
 q kiss thee in the neck, in the soft spot, my beloved.''
 Countess Anna seized the letters and sought lawyer. The letters were put in evidence
 Much more scandal was brought out and then came the divorce decree.
 Howard Gould, the third son of the great railroad promoter and Wall street speculator was married to Katherine Clemmons on October 13, 1898, against the wishes of the family. Miss Clemmons and young Gould met first in 1893 in London when she was under the fatherly guid. ance of Colonel Cody (Buffalo Bib, who spent many thousands yearly in booming the shows she starred in.
 | is a granddaughter of Col Thomas Fitz patrick, who was killed at the battle oi Shiloh. Her real name was Viola Dayan but in San Francisco she appeared in z musical comedy as Katherine Clemmons Howard Gould is 34 years old and his wife is a year or so younger. They have moi lived together since July, 1906.
 The complaint on which Mrs Howard Gould based her suit for a separation em- braced all four of the grounds on which application may be made to the supreme court of the state for a divorce from bed and board, better known as perma- nent separation. Mrs. Gould also asked for permanent alimony and estimated ner husbands income at not less than 1,000,- GOO year on a principal which she figures at about $20,000000.
 Mrs Gould declared that her husband abandoned and deserted her in July, 1906, and that since September of that year he