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Show BOOT'S EXTRAVAGANCE CAUSE OF TROUBLE Anna Gould, the youngest daughter of the late Jay Gould, was married to Count Ernest Boniface-de Castellane. the eldest son of the Marquis de Castellane, at the New York home of her brother, George J. Gould. March 4. 1895. the late Archbishop Cerrigan officiating. -Miss Gould 's dowrv "was understood to have been $1.000.000 and it was -further state that her income , was $600,000 a yea r. . Immediately after the marriage the ' couple left the United States for Francs where the extravagant manner in which they lived attracted considerable attention. atten-tion. About five years after the marriage mar-riage the Count and Countess de Castellane Cas-tellane were reported to be financially embarrassed, it being alleged that the Count had already spend about $7,000, 000 of his wife's money. An adjustment of the affairs of the Count and Countess became necessarr and considerable' litigation followed, with the result that the Gould family intervened and the income of the Countess Coun-tess was cut down to $200,000. On February 5 of the present year, the Countess "de Castellane entered a Elea for divorce, the hearing of which egan before Judge Ditte, Maitre Cruppi appearing for the Countess, and Maitre Bonnet for the Count.- Evidence in the shape of correspondence betweeu the Count and women was presented and the case was adjourned to November Novem-ber 7, when the final pleas were made and the suit adjourned until November 14. On the following dav, November S, the case of the Count's creditors wa F resented to the court and adjourned or two weeks. The three children of the Castellanef are George, Boni and Jay, the youngest being the namesake of his mother 'J father, the late Jay Gould. v |