Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-12-27 | Page 4 | Decline to Annul Boni's Marriage

DECIINET0A1UE BONI'SJMRIE ROME, Dec. 2C Tho Vatican has declined to grant Count BonI de Cas-tellane Cas-tellane an annullment of his marriage with Anna Gould, who Is now tho duchess of Talleyrand and Sagan. Tho Countess do Castellane was granted a divorce from her husband and given the custody of their three children on November 14, 190G. Count Boni applied to the Vatican about a year ago for annullment of the marriage. For several months the congregation congrega-tion of the council has had under nd-visement nd-visement the process received from tho archbishopric of Paris concerning concern-ing the case. When Mgr. Amotto, archbishop of Paris, came to Rome recently to receive the Ted hat, ho gave the pope and Cardinal Gennari, prefect of the congregation of tho council, all tho details In hlg possession posses-sion concerning the case. Count BonI camo to Romo on De- ; member 20 for the purposo of using all possible Influences to obtain his oB-jecU oB-jecU In this he vns not oppose 1)7 the duchess of Talleyrand. The decision de-cision of tho congregation of the council, coun-cil, however, which was communicated to him j'estoHa'v, rejected his petition for the annullment The ground on which tho application was dented was summarized as follows: A marriage celebrated and consummated, consum-mated, if performed according to the law of tho church, ns It was in tho caso of the Cnstellane-Gould marriage, mar-riage, Is Indissoluble Thero are certain cer-tain Impediments which, If existing before the marriage, can prevent its celebration, or Sfcelebrated in Ignorance Ignor-ance of them, render the marriage in valid in which case the church can proclaim that the union of the partie-never partie-never existed In renlltY But In tho arguments brought forward by de Castollnne no such impodlments have been shown." Count BonI departed tonight for Paris. He will return to Rome about tho middle of January. It is thought that he "will bring forward now points on which to base another application for annullment