The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-03
HEARS FROM ANNA
PRINCESS DE sAGAN ANSWERS
 FORMER HUSBAND.
She Denies Allegations of Cssteiisne and Shows French Count That she L Coming For the
 Chfldrem.

Children.
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 Paris, Dec. 3.-The suit brought by Count Boni de Casteilane against the Princess de Sagan, his former wife, for the custody of his three children was continued in this city. today. The Princess before her marriage to Count de castellane was Miss Anna Gould.
 The first hearing occurred last week and counsel for the count declared gan household was harmful to the children and that therefore they should be placed in the custody. of the Mar quis de Castellane. the counts mother.
 The court room today was more crowded than last week. M. clemen- ceau. in preKentIng the princess aide of the case. emphasized the fact that the courts of France always had de- cided that a second marrage did not affect the rights of parents with re- gard to their children. even in cases where this second marriage was with the alleged accomplice In adultery. M. Clemenceau then summed up the contentious 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 .toi prove were irrelevenk and even if they were established they had no bearing on the education of the chtl. dren. -9, ,Fiirthermore.-l these allegations were denied by the princess.
 ~The count was inspired less by so- lfcitude for the welfare of his chill -dren than by personal hatred and tif nanciaT conditions.
 seThe princess, since her marriage to her present husband, has fulfilled in every way her duty toward her children, She had not sought to allen ate their affections from their father. On the other hand the count had com mitted the unpardonable fault of bringing out the present scandal to the detriment of the children: he had used language which 'humiliated' their tutor and in letters to them he had called De sagan . bandit"
 M. Ciemenceau then denied that De SRgan, since his marriage had in any way .irterfereds with the- education of the children. 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 counts legal rights over the educa- ton of the children, provided only that he did not attempt to poison their minds, to dismiss the suit.
 | Continuing M Clemenceau an- nounced that the Princess formally joined with her husband in the aile- 1 gations against the Count, which were l numbered from four twenty inclusive. | The deal with the De Sagans charged that the Count sought to pre- | vent the marriage of Madame Gould | with the Prince and caused forged let- | ters and documents purporting to have been signed by De Sagan, to be sent | to Madame Gould i. ! The papers seenAlsteas of usurers ! notes payable the day the Prince was married to Madame Gould, and three | letters aiieged to. have been written | by De Saaan to his mistress, in which | he. ridiculed Madame Gould and spoke in seurriIous terms of her.
 The Count claimed that these docu- ments had been left anonymously at his residence during the month, of September, 1907. De sagan offered to prove, with the cooperation of his wife. that the count had arranged through two women, called Madame | ''G. and Madame ''R," to have these l documents shown to Madame Gould at \ her country residence. De Sagan, l while not directly accusing the Count of forgery, offered to prove by experts
 that these documents were forged by the same hand.
 Then. taking up his argument again.
 M. Clemenceau said he did not like
 to follow his adversary to the realm 1 of flirnsy afirmat ation; he preferred to l confre himself to facts that could be established. Nevertheless, certain af. firmations must be met, notably Mad anne Gould's alleged remark that 1t would have been better if she had not been divorced. but had lived as she pleased, though married. What Mad anne Gould actually said, MT. Clemen-
 seau declared, was:
 CT am treated just as if had a 1 lot of AIoVers' T .-- a*s
 Counssr for the Princess contended
 that the testimony of the chauffeur
 discharged from. the service of De
 Sagan and the evidence of private de-
 tectives was utterly unworthy of ere
 dence and he raked the Count fore
 and aft when he reached the subject
 of the fashion in which he had dissi- pated his wife's fortune. spending 1t at
 the rate of $1,00o.O0o year for eleven | years.
 "So long as this money was forth
 coming M. Clemenceau said. "the Count considered his wife upright and
 honorable"
 When Miss Gould was married to
 De castellane she had 8 yearly income
 of S7O0. 900. During her married life,
 with what counsel characterized as
 it's countless TfolIies, like the Malakoff
 palace, the sum of $1e,00O, ,o0e had been
 spent When she got her divorce from
 the Count there existed debts amount
 ing to $S, 100000 in addition to the
 sum of s95,0O0 that had been given
 to the Marquis and Marquise De Cas- l tellane.
 "This is the man" cried M. Clemen- ceau ''who wants his children edu- cated like a De Castellane. man | without a profession. who married for
 money and then devoted himself to be-
 traying his wife with his wife's female
 friends"
 Continuing. M. Clemenceau reviewed 1 the exact terms of settlement his ellen