Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-02
HATRED INSPIRES BON|
So Says Counsel for Princess
de Sagan.
HAS FULFILLED HER DUTY
Declares She Has Not Come Between
Father and Children.
HUSBAND DOES NOT INTERFERE
Will Not Oppose de Castellane's s
Legal Rights-Asks That Court
Dismiss Suit.

PARIS, December 1.-The suit brought
by Count Boni de Castellane 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.
Counsel for the count declared that the
moral atmosphere Of the de Sagan house.
hold was harmful to the children and
that therefore they should be placed In
the custody of the MarQuise de Castel-
lane, the counts mother.
The courtroom today was more crowded j
than last week. VI. Clemenceau. in pre-
senting the princess side of the case. en-
phasZed the fact that the courts of
France always had decided that "A second
| marriage did not affect the rights of
parents with regard to their children.
even in cases where this second mar
riage was with the alleged accomplice of
adultery.
Contentious of Defense.
NJ. 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 to
prove were irrelevant. Even if they We're
established they had no bearing upon the
| education Of the children. Furthermore.
these allegations were denied by the
princess.
The count was inspired less by the
solicitude for the welfare of his children
than by personal hatred and financial con-
siderationS.
THE princess. since her marriage to her
present husband. has fulfilled in every
way her duty toward her children. She
had not sought to ALLEVIATE their affections
from their father.
Objectionable Letters Cited.
ION the other hand, the count had CON-
mitted the unpardona BILE fault Of bringing
out the present scandal to the detriment
of the children; he had used language
which 'humiliated' their tutor and in let
tiers to them he had called de Sagan a
bandit"
t.44AA>- 4.lenseneeau then denied that de Sa.
gan since his marriage, had in any way
interfered with the education of the chill
dren. Consequently he asked the court
| taking into consideration the princess ex-
pressed declaration that she never had op-
posed. and would not oppose in the future
the exercise of the counts legal rights
over the education of the children. provid-
ed only that he did not attempt to poison
their minds-to dismiss the suit
! Continuing. NJ. Clemenceau announced
hat the Princess formally Joined with
| ~
the count numbered from 1 to 20. in
elusive. These deal W tn de Sagan's
charges that the count. in order to pre-
vent the marriage of Nine Gould with
the Prince de Sagan, caused forged let
tiers and documents, purporting to have
been signed by de Sagan, to be sent to
Nine. Gould.
These papers consisted of usurers'
notes. payable the day the prince was
married to Mime. Gould and three let
ters alleged to have been written by de
Sagan to his mistress. in which he ridi-
culed Nine. Gould and spoke in sour
rilous terms of her. The count claimed
that these documents had been left
anonymously at his residence during the
month of September. 1907.
De Sagan offered to prove with the CO.
operation of his wife. that the count had
arranged through two women called Ma
dame C. and Madame r." to have
these documents shown to N,idame Gould
at her country residence. De Sagan. while
not directly accusing the count of forgery.
offered to prove by experts that these
documents We're forged by the same
hand
Then. taking up his arguments again,
NJ Clemenceau said he did not like to
follow his adversary into the realm of
tiimsy affirmation. He preferred to con-
fine himself to facts that could he es-
ia bliShed.
Nevertheless. certain affrmatons must
be met, notably Nine Gould'S alleged
she had not been divorced. but had lived
as she pleased. though married
What Nine. Gould actually said, NJ.
Clemenceau declared. was:
II am treated just as If | had lot
OF lovers