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Show mm mm is mmum mm mmvm count ' . i ... a , , n t Extravagant Husband fails to Get Stipend Sti-pend of $50,000 a Year, but Wife May Not Take Children from France; His-tory His-tory of the famous Case. PARIS, Nov. 14. The Tribunal of First Instance of -the Seine, Judge Ditte presiding, at noon today granted -a divorce to the Countess De Castellane (fonnerly Annaj Gould of New York), and gave her the custody of hen children, who, however, will not be allowed to be taken from France without the consent of their father, Countj Boni De Castellane. PARIS, Nov. 14. Prince Amede De Broglie, fathefl of Prince Robert De Broglie, has filed in the Paris courts a demand for the annulment of his son's marriage to Misg Estelle Alexander of California. PARIS, Nov. 11. The end of the famous fa-mous Castellane divorce case came sur-denly. sur-denly. The court brushed aside the demand de-mand of the Count's lawj-ers for an examination of witnesses, and as anticipated, antici-pated, the public prosecutor did not even ask to be heard. As soon as court assembled Judge Ditte handed down the judgment, which is a sweeping .victory for the Countess. In granting her petition .for divorce the court gave the Countess the custody of her children, the Count being be-ing allowed only the usual rights to see t hem. anllahara in. the control of their education, which was not contested. The Count, is.giyen the right to see the. children at .stated periods at the homo of their grandmother and keep them a month annually during the holidays. holi-days. Boni Gets No Money. denied on the ground that the guilty party in a divorce loses all the advantages advan-tages accorded either bv a marriage contract or the course of married life, and consequently the court refused to allow not onlr the Count's original claim for 450,000 per annum, but the $30,000 which the Countess offered and which it now seems the Count claimed to have accepted .October 25. Car of the Children. The court also took . a precaution against any unreasonable attitude Of the Count toward allowing his wife to take her children out of France by providing pro-viding that in ease ef fcir refusal jadi ciaJ authorization could, be granted. The decree orders the Countess to send the children oa Thursdays and Sundays to their grandmother, tie .Marquise .Mar-quise de Castellane, and their surrender to their father for a week at New Years and Easter and for a month in. the summer. The Count's demand for an alimentary alimen-tary allowance of $50,000 annually was Fronounced by the court to be without onndation in law and was rejected. The only point decided in the Count 's favor was the imposition of the inhibition inhibi-tion on the Countess not to tske the children out of France without their father's consent. The court appointed the president of the. Chamber of Deputies to liquidate the affairs of the husband and wife.. The judgment was given with costs against the Count. Public Is Chagrined. The decree, the aVading of whieh hardly consumed five minutes, was delivered de-livered by the Judge in a voice so low as to be" practically inaudible to the eager crowd filling the courtroom. Many women climbed the chairs in vain efforts to hear the decision and when they were aware that a divorce was granted they seemed actually to resent the loss of a public trial at which people peo-ple in high society would be compelled to testify. Extravagance and Cruelty. . There are twelve connts upon which the attorneys of the Countess De Castellane Cas-tellane asked for a divorce. In the first two it is stated: "Soon after his marriage Count De Castellane began the purchase of furniture furni-ture at ridiculously exorbitant prices and immediately resold it. When the plaintiff protested the fount abused her in the presence of servants. "Upon the slightest pretext Count De Castellane created scenes, going to the extent of striking plaintiff. In the course of one of these scenes at Roche-cotte, Roche-cotte, during the autumn of 1895, the Countess was brutally pinched by her husband, ami the next day while she was still suffering from his violence, she revealed the fact to an American friend who was a guest at the chateau." Intimacy With Women. The other counts refer to Count De Castellane 's intimacy with various women, wo-men, designated in the bill as "Mme. A.." ".Mme. B.." "iimo. etc. In the twelfth and last count it is claimed that, "for several years Count De Castellane rented in Paris a number of places for his rendezvous, in particular particu-lar No. 26 Rue La Rochefoucould, where he was known under the name of 'Pascal': 'Pas-cal': No. 16 Rue De General Foy, the Pavilion of St. James, and No. 5 Rue Dave, at Nejuill.v. At these addresses he received, to the knowledge of several of his servants and chauffeurs, the women wo-men with whom he was intimate belonging belong-ing to the monde and the demi-monde classes." Here follows a long list of dates extending ex-tending from the year 1901 to 1906. Count's Own Admission. The text of the decree does not go in- to the details of the Countess' bill of particulars, "inasmuch as Mme. De Castellane Cas-tellane submitted letters and documents, several of which were from the Count himself, establishing sufficiently that since their marriage, notably in 1898, 1902 and 1905, he had relations and correspondence cor-respondence with various women of easy virtue, whifth was most offensive to a wife, thns rendering himself guilty of acts justifying a divorce, and as he had failed to establish a reconciliation, the petition of Mme. De Castellane is granted. " Loses His Income. The Count's demand for an "alimentary "alimen-tary allowance of $50,000 annually' was |