Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-03
BON. IS
.KEENLY SCORED
BY CLEMENCEAU
PRINCESS DE SAGAN is DE-
Tended BY ATTORNEY
OF FORMER HUS-
BAND DENOUNCED
Hundreds of Women Fight for Admis-
sion to Court Room-object of
Plaintiff Declared to
Be Revenge
IBy Associated Press.l

nARIS, Dec. 2.-The Princess de
Sagan, formerly Miss Anna Gould
Il of New York, scored several in
nings in court today in the hearing of
the case brought by her former hus-
band, Count Boni de Castellane, to have
the three children of the union placed
in the custody of his mother, the Mar
quise de Castellane
The first hearing took place last week,
and M. Bonnet, counsel for the count,
set forth by statement, allegations and
insinuation that the atmosphere of the
De Sagan household was detrimental
to the proper bringing up of the three
Castellane boys.
During the afternoon hundreds of
women, including some of the most
prominent members of French society,
and the American and English colonies
in Paris, literally fought in the corri-
doris of the Palace of Justice to gain ad-
mission to the crowded courtroom,
where the side of the princess was pre-
sented by M. Clemenceau.
Without essaying the impassloned
oratorical role played by M. Bonner
last week, M. Clemenceau coolly anu
calmly, but with cutting irony and
keen ridicule, met the accusations
brought against Princess de Sagan,
whose character he insisted was blame
less.
He mercilessly scored the record and
character of Count de Castellane, ana
said he was wholly unfit to nave the
custody of his children.
He charged that the real purpose or
the count was to raise money and sat
isfy his vengeance on the Prince and
Princess de Sagan, even at the expense
of the interests of his children, whose
minds he had continuously tried TO
poison.
Neither Prince De Sagan nor the
count was present.
Contentious Summed Up
M. Clemenceau summed up the con-
tentions of the princess as follows;
THE count had formally declared that
he would withdraw the suit If the
princess separated from her husband
The facts that the count had offered to
prove were irrelevant, and even If they
were established they had no bearing
upon the disposition of the children
Furthermore, these allegations were
denied by the princess. The count was
inspired less by solicitude for the wei
fare of his children than by personal
hatred and financial considerations.
The princess, since her marriage to her
present husband, has fulfilled in every
WAY ner QuIy IOWdEo DGI IlAAAdlpiis SAiS
had not sought to ALLEVIATE their af-
fections from their father. On the
other hand, the count had committed
the unpardonable fault of bringing out
the present scandal to the detriment of
the children, he had used language
which "huuiliated" their tutor, and in
letters to them he had called De Sagan
a bandit.
M. Clemenceau denied that De Sagan,
hi ,-Ia ha6 i'm In
terfered with the education of the chill
dren. Consequently he asked the court.
taking into consideration the princess
expressed declaration that she never
had opposed and would not oppose in
the future the exercise of the count s
legal rights over the education of the
children, provided only that he did not
attempt to poison their minds, TO dis
miss the suit.
Joint Allegations
Continuing, M. Clemenceau announced
that the princess formally Joined with
her husband in the allegations against
the count numbered from to 20 in
elusive. These deal with De Sagan's
that the count, in order to prevent tho
marriage of Madame Gould with the
Prince de Sagan, caused forged letters
and documents purporting to have been
signed by De Sagan to be sent to
Madame Gould.
These papers consisted of usurer's
notes, payable the day the prince was
married to Madame Gould and three
letters alleged to have been written by
De Sagan to his mistress, in which he
ridiculed Madame Gould and spoke in
scurrillous terms of her,
The count claimed these documents
had been left anonymously at his resi-
dence during September 1907. De Sagan
offered to prove, with the cooperation
of his wife, that the count had ar
ranged through two women, called Ma
dame &c" and Madame "R," to have
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