The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-26

committed a grave wrong in the past,
this had been fully expiated and that
he would not intervene now had the
princess married a man of reasonable
moral responsibility: but by her mar
riage to the prince she had forfeited her
right To her children.
NJ. Bonnet then entered upon an elap-
crate exposition of the grief of his
client He described, among other
things, the humiliation to which the
count on several different occasions had
been subjected. Once, when he brought
the children back to their home after
a visit with him til ants of the
| princess, on their m orders. re-
fused to allow him to pass the gate,
and after his election to the chamber
of deputies she replied to a telegram of
congratulation from one of his con-
stituents in the following words: IT an,
happy that you are content that you
have elected rogue instead of a
worthy man." This was before she Sc
cured her divorce from the count
Plight of the Prince.
Turning to the Prince de Sagan, NJ
Bonnet said that before his marriage
he was reduced to a pitiable plight.
He was bounded by his creditors and
renounced by his family; he had no
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company. After ridiculing De Sagan's
public profession of love for his future
wife, counsel for the count referred to
the princess alleged improper conduct
with De Sagan before their marriage.
He said she received him intimately in
her house on Avenue Malakoff, rode
and dined with him alone in Paris, and
that while in Italy they Travelled to-
4 gether and carefully concealed their
| IL
! ing II impossible for him to communi-
cate with his children. Furthermore.
NJ Bonnet went on, De Sagan last
summer, in the name of his chauffeur,
rented a $500. 900 villa at St. Cloud and
received his future wife there secretly
and at her country seat, the Chateau
Marais, the prince occupied a room on
the same corridor. While in New York
the membes of the Gould family de-
clined to receive De Sagan. hence the
clandestine departure of the prince and
the countess from New York on differ
ent steamers. At Rome they tried 10
secure the annullment of the marriage
of the count and countess by the pope
and failing in this. De Sagan became a
Protestant in order to make marriage
possible
NJ. Bonnet 6welt at length upon what
he termed the demoralizing influence of
De Sagan upon the princess. saying he
had dragged her into the Bohemian life
which he loved, to the complete neglect
/ of her children.
Scandalous Conduct.
The lawyer then declared that the con-
| duct of the couple at the Hotel Des Res
! eryoires at Versailles was so scandalous
that the other guests refused to allow
their children to play with the Castellane
! children. De Sagan spent his evenings in
| the apartments of Nine. Gould. After
/ he left Versailles for England under the
name of Thompson, one of the children
| fell Ill and the count had this child re-
moved by force. The countess thereupon
/ notified the physician that she would not
| be responsible for his bill. No relative
| of either the prince or Nine. Gould was
| present at their marriage in London on
! July Z, but De Sagan sent a telegram to
! Berlin requesting that Emperor William
| be notified of the ceremony
Since the marriage the children had
complained To their grandmother, the
Marquise de Castellane. that the conduct
| of the prince was distasteful to them.
giving examples and incidents.
Going back to the record of the prince
before his marriage. NJ. Bonnet reviewed
his escapades.
De Sagan UnfaithfuI. ~
OF recent years De Sagan's life has been
a Veritable vaudeville performance, II.
Bonnet said. He explained that De Cas-
tellane had been Informed of the princes
cOhOuct through chauffeur with whom
the prince had had a misunderstanding
He declared that the prince had called
upon his former mistresses since his mar
riase. Special mention was made of one
Jeanne Labouche. Since his marriage he
had lunched and dined with Mile La
bOuche. gone on trips with her and had
deposited 500 TO her credit. For this
money the prince took a receipt which
he hid in his stocking He subsequently
turned this paper over to his chauffeur.
who IN turn gave it to De Castellane. In
the same manner De CaStellane got pos
session of a receipt for sec which he gave
to another woman on July 10.
Laughter in Audience.
The lawyer then said that when the
princess chided her husband for these ac-
tons he confessed the fault and said that
if she would give him an allowance he
would enter a monastery for the rest of
his life. This remark was received with
laughter from the crowded courtroom
NJ Bonnet insisted that his client had
refused all money considerations for con-
sent to leave the children in the posses
sion of the De Sagans.
There was a lively tilt between the at
torneys following the Introduction of the
names Of De Sagan's mistresses.
NJ Clemenceau. who represents the
princess. gave warning that he would re-
taliate in kind when he discussed the ca
reer of De Castellane.
Soieitude of Boni.
To show the counts solicitude for his
children NJ Bonnet read some letters
written by the count to them while they
were in America, in which he asked them
to pray for him as he was praying for
them. After the marriage of the prince
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