The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-05
StornnyM MarriedLife
 OfC0untess Barbara
and such. The wreck of a $40, ,000, ,000 marriage had to wait.
 Court Under Orders
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and such. The wreck of $40, ,000, ,000 marriage had to wait.
 Court Under Orders
 The count remained under an undertaking to make no attempt to communicate with his wife.
 Haugwitz-Reventlow, 1t was as- serted, threatened to put his wife Ion the spot; threatened to seize Lance, their 2-year -old son; threat ened to kill himself, threatened to give the countess three years hell with headlines"
 Of the unnamed man promi- nent in London society, 1t was said who was brought into the case, Haugwitz-Reventlow, was quoted as saying:
 "Duelling is too good for that .: I'll go straight to London and shoot him like dog and put the countess on the spot"
 Guarded reference was made to a letter which the count had taken from his wife one she had re- ceived from an unnamed person.
 Settlement fOStpOneu
 It was disclosed that the countess had considered settling $l,250,00 on the count but later decided it might be better to make his an outright gift of $250,OOO.
 After all the charges, outlined first by Sir Patrick Hastings, the coun- tess's chief counsel, in an opening statement, and then by William M. Mitchell, her regular lawyer, in tes- timony, Mitchell admitted under cross ss-examination that the count said:
 Despite everything still love her and always will
 But at the same time he said words to another effect, too," added Mitchell.
 Did he say he had never looked at another woman and had always been sweet on his own Wife?" asked Norman Birkett, for the count.
 "Yes," admitted Mitchell.
 You agree that there were abso- lutely no grounds whatever for di- vorce?"
 Absolutely none," said Mitchell.
 Letter Broke Couple
 Sir Patrick Hastings, for the countess, read the letter, written June IT, in which the countess broke with her husband. It was:
 Dear Count:
 Your attitude during the last year, and especially the last few weeks, has made it impossible for me to go on living with you .. I want to say I hope you are well and that I want you to have a happy life, just as I want one for myself. Together this is impossible, as realize now. do not want you to have hard feelings about me and I have not got any about you. One thing l want to ask you: Please do no ask or try to see me again. I shall be reasonable and I know you will also. With all my best wishes,
 Always affectionately,
 "BARBARA".
 Count Scribbles Notes
 Countess Barbara, clad in a black suit and wearing dark gray furs, sat just behind the dock in which Haugwitz Reventlow, handsome Danish nobleman who is her second husband, sat-(by special permission defendants ordinarily stand and scribbled notes of the testimony against him.
 It was perhaps the first time that $40 100000 was represented in the musty little court room where drunk and-disorderly cases provide the greater part of the normal days budget
 HaugWitz-Reventlow was charged with using threats towards the complainant whereby she appre- hends that she goes in danger of her life or of some bodily harm that he will do or cause to be done to her"
 Case Is Outlined
 Hastings. former attorney gen. eral and regarded as perhaps the country's leading trial lawyer, out lined to Sir Rollo F. Graham Camp bell, chief magistrate, the case in which the countess charged that she had been threatened by her count.
 AS usual, Hastings, his eyes blaz- ing under his shaggy brows, was merciless.
 He opened with the statement that by June last it was found that family life was becoming prac- tically impossible between the count and countess and that a separation was discussed.
 The defendant is very peculiar man according to the evidence you will hear he continued. He has a violent and ungovernable temper and is most emotional. It will be said in evidence that the count said he would put his wife on the spot" . HaugWitz Reventlow boasted, Hastings charged. that he could shoot revolver through his pocket before man could raise hand against him.
 First the count agreed to a separation. then changed his mind, Hastings said and continued:
 Threats to Shoot "On June 18 he threatened not only to shoot other people but him. self he behaved altogether in a most irrational way | told him in Paris and his wife was terrified of him and would not consent to his coming back. The count raved bit and I gentleman was named whom I | shall not mention. The count said ]