The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-04-22

Marital Troubles

bad condition, and although he al
ways emphatically denied he was be
ing pressed by creditors. the an.
nouucement came from Paris in 1900
that his wife s fortune had been placed
! by the FrencE courts under the trus.
heeA ilp. pf her brother. Geurge j..
j Gould. II was stated at the time
that this measure was taken at the
request OF the Gould family. which
had been alarmed by the prodigal ex-
ltravagance of tie Cas;ellanes. who
IN four years spent s3.000,0O0 were
involved in debt to the extent OF
I S4.400 900. while the annual income
from the dowty of the COantes had
dwindled to S6O0.0 900
In these legal proceedings it de-
lveloped that the Indebtedness CON
sisted of S740000 on real estate, ST.
lSi7.052 on mortgages in connection
with the Bazaar de Ia Charlie and
hotel in the Rue Malikoff loans.
notes in hand. tradesmen's bills. etc.
lSS5S G3l and bills due sixtynvs art
and bric-abac dealers to she sum OF
81 i,S20,000 Que of these alone having
a claim OF 100000
Boni Slapped His Countess
The story of the cruelties, the in
Idignities. she suffered is too recent
Ito have been forgotten We need
only recall the speech Of her lawyer
Haitre CruppL setting forth what he
would prove and what he did prove
He said the Countess came upon the
irst proof of her husbands unfaith-
lmlness in 1898, when she found a
madrigal her husband had written 10
lue OF his woman friends lie slap
ped her for having read it, One in
eident effectively related by Maiire
lCruppi put the court room on the
laui viye. lie said that one evening
when suspicion stirred her anguished
lemt Countess Aana was reassured
10y learning that her husband had
yone to bed She went to his bed
com where she found. not her hlis
band, but a dummy figure in tke bed
Again in 1898 the Countess put hei
Jewels in casket to which she and
,er husband had keys She foun,
there correspondence from Nine. A.
whose handwriting she knew Mad
,me had written 10 Count Boni that
hey would soon De in their own
home again. adding
Il kiss thee in the neck In the soft
poi my beloved"
Countess Anna seized the letters
and sought q lawyer.
Count Boni had apartments in the
Rue Hoissere, Rue General Fol, Rue
Rouchefoucauld, the Place dlena ant
at Nemlly uder the name of Pascal
or the name of one of his seere
taries.
With her absolute divorce the Coun
less gained the custody of her three
Ons; their estimable father can visi
them occasionally.
Both SideG Make Charges.
Howard Gould's troubles still re
main unsettled phe most recent de
'alopment was when he charged hii
wife with undue intimacy with Dus
lin Farnum, an actor Charges am
counter charges OF a most astonish
ng nature have been flung about
When the third son of Jay Gouul,
vas married TO Vio-a Katherine Glen
mons. on Oct. T3, 1898. there wat
not cloud in their sky. as far a
anybody could see I'm those days. TIL
CEREMONY was performed ~ the Hol
land House by the Rev Dr. Wilton II
smith. then pastor of the Contra
Presbyterian church The wedding
was an elaborate affair and the SUI
per afterward took place on Nj
Gould's yacht, the Niagara, on whicl
the couple spent their honey moon.
There was considerable opposition
on the part OF Mr. Gould's relatives {
+ the marriage, and It was reported a
the time that the trustees OF hi'
'athers estate would cut down hi
Inheritance by several millions If IL
persisted
Miss Clemmons and young Goul
: met first in 1893 IN London when sh
was under the fatherly guidance q
Col Cody. who spent many thousand
Z yeasly in booming the shows sh
! starred in
8 Miss Clemmons was born in Ill
nois and g granddaughter Of Co
Thomas Fitzpatrick, who was lkille
at the battle Of shiloh Her rea
E aame was Viol3 Dayon, but in sa
Franclsco she appeared in a musici
: comedy as Katherine Clemmons. Sh
rad previously studied in Boston an
Z abroad
K Her Debut a Failure.
e Her star appearance was in -
3 Lady OF Venice al me Fifth Avenu
I theatre In 1894. The show was
failure and Col Cody dropped abo,
I $50. 600 IL was said
: Howard Gould Is thivtyfonr yeai
r Did. and his wife is year or 8
4 younger. They have not lived togeth'
since July, 1906.
e Tha complaint on which Mrs HOY
e ard Could based her suit for sepa
4 alton embraced four Of the ground
e ln which application may be mad
] O. the supreme court in the stat
Tor divorce from bed aud board, be
Ter known as permanent separation
e Mrs Gould also asisud for permanei
o alimony aud estimated her husband
: income at not less than $1,000, ,000
Is year on "a principal which she figure
y af about S2c ,000 GOO
a Mrs Gould declared that her hu
) band abandoned and deserted her
n July. 1896, ana taai since Septemb'
Of that year he did not contribui
4 anything 10 her support These al
e two Of the grounds for her suit
5 There Is also a general allesatic