Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-03
COUNT BONI IS
KEENLY SCORED
PRINCESS De SAGAN Is DE-
TENDED BY ATTORNEY
CHARACTER OF FORMER HUs-
BAND DENOUNCED
Hundreds of Women Fight for Admis=
sion TO Court 2oom-Object of
Plaintiff Declared to
BE Revenge
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Be Revenge
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these documents shown to Madame
Gould at her country residence.
De Sagan, while not directly accus-
ing the count of forgery, offered to
prove by experts that those documents
were forged "by the same hand"
Then taking up his argument again,
M. Clemenceau said he did not like to
follow his adversary into the realm of
tliNsy affirmation; he preferred to con-
fine himself to facts that could be
established.
Nevertheless, affirmations must be
met, notably Madame Gould's alleged
remark that ii would have been better
If she had not been divorced, but had
lived as she pleased, though married.
What She Said
What Nine. Gould actually said, M.
Clemenceau declared, was, 81 am treat
ed just as if l had a lot of lovers"
Counsel for the princess contended
that the testimony of the chauffeur
discharged from the service of De Sa-
gan and the evidence of private detec-
tives was utterly unworthy of credence,
and he raked the count fore and aft
when he reached the subject of the
fashion in which he had dissipated his
wife's fortune, spending at the rate
of 81, 100000 a year for eleven years.
80 long as this money was forth
coming" NJ. Clemenceau said, 1.-The
count considered his wife upright and
honorable"
When Miss Gould was married to De
Castellane she had a yearly income
of $700.000 During her married life,
IL,
countless follies," the sum of $10000,-
900 had been spent. When she got her
divorce from the count there existed
debts amounting to $34OO,OOO in addl-
ton to the sum of $95, 900 that had been
given to the Marquis and Marquise
de Castellane.
"This is the man." cried M. Clemen-
ceau, "who wants his children edu-
Gated like a De Castellane A man
without a profession. who married for
money and then devoted himself to
betraying his wife with his wife's fe-
male friends"
Settlement Revealed
Continuing, M. Clemenceau revealed
the exact terms of the settlement his
client offered to make at the time Of
her divorce. These the count refused
on the ground that they were insult
ficient, and in so doing. said counsel,
he proved himself eligible for an in
sane asylum.
These terms were $4,000 in cash and
an income of $4,000 a year, the income
to be increased when the estate of his
former wife was out of the hands Of
the trustees. she to take over all the
debts then pending.
M. Clemenceau then rallied at the
count for reproaching De Sagan with
having two mistresses.
1.-The count" he said, chad more than
two when he married Miss Gould"
The count also accused De Sagan
with ingratitude because he (the count)
had once loaned him $12 900.
Where does the money come FROM"
asked the lawyer. "Why, from Anna
Sagan."
Reverting to the divorce proceedings,
M. Clemenceau charged that the words
of the decree obtained by the countess,
that "the husband had entertained re-
lations with women of easy morals, -
did not constitute the worst charge
against the count. AS a proof that the
suit was not brought because of the
counts solicitude for his children and
that the Marquise de Castellane did
not desire their custody. M. Clemen-
Cedu tdlleQ attention u the ldCt lildL
the Marquise de Castellane had not
come forward as a party to the action.
Accusations Reviewed
M. Clemenceau took up one by one
the accusations made against the
princess by the count regarding her
travels in Italy with De Sagan before
their marriage. 1t should be remem-
bered the lawyer declared, that the
princess was not a young girl travelling
with her fiance, but a divorced woman
in the company of the man she was
going to marry. Furthermore, she is
an American, NJ. Clemenceau said.
Conduct that would appear to be
out of the ordinary in France" he
said. 'is perfectly proper on the other
side of the ocean,"
Diminishing the charges brought
against the prince and Nine. Gould
while they were in New York, M.
Clemenceau came to the more serious
charges of misconduct at Versailles.
He admitted that De Sagan had stepped
out of Nine Gould's window in the
Hotel des Reserverar at II o'clock in
the morning, but he pointed out that
this was not the window of her bed
room, but of her salon, and as the
salon was situated on the ground floor
of the hotel it was quite natural for
the prince to emerge into the garden
by way of the tall window that in
French houses often serves as a door.
He called attention to the fact that
counsel for the count had insinuated
that De Sagan had conducted himself
improperly at Versailles. Such an in
timation was UNANIMOUSLY false, and Il
was likewise untrue that De Sagan had
occupied room in the Chateau Marais
on the same floor as that of Nine.
Goulds servants.
1t is true De Sagan had rented a
villa at Bellevue under an assumed
name, but this was something he had
a perfect right to do, said M. Clemen-
ceau.
In conclusion M. Clemenceau gave
many instances of the tender, motherly
solicitude of the princess. instancing
the fact that she had arranged to re-
ceive four kilograms a day about her
children when she went to London to
be married to the prince.
When NJ Clemenceau had finished 1t
was announced the case would go over
to December 8, when M. Jumier will
speak for De Sagan and M. Rouse for
George Gould, who as trustee of his
sisters estate, is a party to the suit.
PRINCESS DE BRoGLIE SEEKS
DIV0RCE. SINGS IN CAFES