The Washington herald., 1910-12-23
FORGOT TO BUY WINE
D'Aulby Also Held On to the
Countess Money.
WANTED $4,000 FRANCS WORTH
Trial of Pseudo NObIeman on Elk
tortIon Charge Is Marked by Ere
oueDt determinations by AdVO-
Gates and Court Room Becomes Up
roarfous-On stand All Day.

Tours. Dec. E-The pseudo Count
! d AuIby de Catchy, who IS on trial for
an attempt to extort $9Oo.o0o from Mrs.
Charles Hamilton Paine. now the Count
ess de Choiseul Praslin, resumed the
stand at the opening OF court this morn
I ing. He was asked a number Of Ques-
! tions as to why he had not returned
/ 1e 600 francs which Mrs. Paine sent him
/ last December with which TO purchase
wine for her. D'Aulby admitted that he
had never sent the wine: neither had he
returned the money.
| At this point d'Aulby was excused for
/ the time and the Countess" Aulby,
/ formerly Miss LInt. Of Boston. took the
stand at the request Of Maitre Sturel, Of
counsel for Ouch ass de ChOiseul PTaslin.
The countess" was even more volubie
and emphatic than during her examina-
ton Yesterday IN reply to questions she
said she had considered her children
English. because of the nationality OF
her husband, but Is now determined that
1 they shall become Americans. She
scorned the suggestion that she had
agreed 20 divorce d'Aulby and allow him
10 marry Mrs. Paine before the latter
married the Duke de Choiseui Praslin.
Wine Bill padded"
The Interrogation of the count was
then resumed. The first question taken
IN was that of the furniture which
d'AuIby bought for the Paines. Accord
ing to d'Aulby. Mr.. Paine paid him
M00o francs for this furniture, but ex-
merits say the sum was 10000 francs. The
question Of the purchase OF wines by
d'AuIby for the Paines was again brought
up. The count" supplied champagne TO
the Chateau dAulby at 10 francs which
COST him 81 francs other wines marked
Chateau Yquem" and Chateau Ia
Rose" for which dAuIby paid IL francs,
were charged to the Paines at francs.
The next witness was the complainant.
the Duchess de Choiseul Pras,in. She
was frequently interrupted by Count"
d'Aulby. who declared that she was not
speaking the truth. At one time he
shouted: Nothing the duchess says is
true: il is a romance she has made up,
as l am ready TO prove later" This was
greeted with cheers by the crowd in the
court room.
The duchess protested that she was not
there To be insuted. The interruptions
became so frequent and noisy that Presi-
dent Robert was compelled to stop the
ordinations and determinations between
the advocates.
Reads Gushing Epistle-
Maitre Bernard, attorney for the
count" read a letter from Mrs. Paine
TO d'Aulby containing such phrases as
Il love you and my love is an in
candescent flame.
The countess denied point plank Aul-
by's story about her influencing Mr.. Paine
in dAu,by's favor after the latter had
accused her of leaving him for the Duke
de Choiseul D'Aulby repeated the story
with minute details
As evidencing NJ Demands relentless
ness he asked the duchess her opinion
of the wines d'Aulhy supplied her with.
The duchess declared she was no judge
of wines. NJ. Bernard's mfTnicry of I'M
believing establishment showed so clearly
what he was seeking to insinuate that the
| audience laughed jeeringly.