Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-10
BoN| DENOUNCED
In Redhot Terms by Former
Wife's Counsel
For Besmirching Her Name For
Sole Reason Of Revenge.
Asks For Children But Really Wants
Their S60,000 Income.

| Paris, Dec. 9.-French society crowd
| ed the court room in the Palace of JUS
| tice to-day to hear M. Julemeir, speak
| ing in the name of the Princess De
SaSan, oppose the suit entered by the
| Count Boni ne Castellane in which he
petitions that the custody of his three
| children lie given to his mother, the
Marquise De Castellane.
If NJ. Bonnet. speaking for the court
did net spare Prince De Sagan a fort
| night ago, NJ. Julemier was no less de-
mandatory and bitter in his character
izatiOn on this occasion or the count
Castellane's sole motive IN entering
this suit, he charged, was hatred OF
Sagar: the very thought of the prince
occupying place in the affections of
ms lorlner wife and living in the su-
perb mansion on the Avenue Malakotf
soaled De Castellane to fury. The
count did everything possible to him
der the marriage of his former wife to
De Sagan and having failed in this he
was now seeking by every means in
his power to bring discredit upon the
De Sagan household.
Amid some suppressed merriment on the
part of the auditors the lawyer sketched
a glowing picture of the prince. M. Dc
Sasan is as elegant and brilliant a man
as is NJ. De Castellane. NJ. De Sagan is
true gentleman, and the children of NJ
De Castelane can only be improved from
contact with him." said NJ. Julemier. I'll
the prince did not fight duel with the
count after their fistic encounter in
Paris it vas rot because he lacked
courage. That the prince has courage is
evidenced by his duel with Prince
HourdZa, for which he was congratulated
by De Castellane.
Continuing. NJ. Julemer declared that
De Sagar never had been expelled from
any club and that while in Buenos Ayres
he did not lead the adventurous life ac-
credited to him. These and other accu-
sations We're base calumnies concoctcd by
the man who had squandcred the fortune
of Miss Gould and left her with debts
amounting to 81 100000 to settle.
IN. De Castelane has reproa ched NJ.
De Sagan for living humbly in hired
"oOms," continued the lawyer. Why di,1
he not offer him asylum i'm one of the
seven homes he continually frequents?"
NJ. Julemier then accused the count of
furnishing mendacious information to the
Gould family in the hope Of tive rting
his rival. In conclusion the lawyer said:
THE jealousy of NJ. De Castelane re-
suits from the thought that each day
ranllles mere and more that NJ. De Sagan
is enjoying the great happiness which to
him is lost forever"
NJ Julenicr was followed by NJ Rous-
set. who appeared on behalf of George
Gould. a brother of the Princess De Sa-
gan He is a party in the defence in his
rs trustee of the Gould estate. |
NJ Rousset characterized as abominable
attempt to besmirch the reputation of the
mother Of his children merely for the |
purpose Of venting his hatred. The only |
way in which the princess could dave |
avoided this suit would have been to sub |
nit to extorticn and threats but this she |
would not do because she had nothing to |
reproach herself with and nothing to |
fear"
NJ. Rousset then said that the count |
ng UP his children and that he therefore
desired that they be placed in the custody |
Of his mother. '"rhe count, however,"
he said, would take into his own hands |
he yearly income of 100000 belonging to |
the children. This money would melt |
ike wax before a fire: the children never |
would receive cent of it,"
NJ. Rousset' concluded his plea by be-
seeching the court not to separate the
-hree De Castellane children from their
ender and loving mother.