Show DONIS fl PITIFUL PLEA EFFECT EfFECTIVE j i 11 I Court Co rt Holds the French Count Committed No Crime in As Assaulting Assaulting Assaulting De Paris Feb 4 The case came up in the correctional court today having been adjourned from Irom January 14 Count Boni and Count i Jean de Castellane his brother brother are charged with assault by Prince De Sa SaSan gan San early In January Answering a question put by the I court Count Boni declared that he could explain clearly clear the motives of II hi hir animosity towards Prince de tie Sa gan gati by certain documents which he Intended to hand over to the court ourt but I that the Intimate character ch of these I papers prevented their th lr being made pub public lie lic At this statement Prince de tie interrupted the proceedings by crying in a loud voice yolee Those documents are forgeries forg rles Count Boni admitted that he had spat in the princes face and explained that he had not bent seconds to his hi cousin tox arrange a duel as he knew prince could not find anybody who would be le willing to represent him himon himon himon on the field of honor Name N me Dragge In Counsel for the count declared that If his client had accepted the he Judgment of divorce from Madame Gould It was because he he had recognized wronged I Ithe the wife whom he still sUil respected In spite of tie the U fact that they were separated by b la law Count Boni had not been able to restrain his indignation I and anger when he heard that the Prince De was waa going to become the husband of the mother of his the counts children He considered also the interests of his children and was Convinced that Prince De could not be even a good father tather to them 0 After hearing the testimony of ot sev sey several Ie eral witnesses Count Boni was dis discharged discharged discharged charged Judgment In the case of Count Jean will be handed down later |