Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1913 — BONI IN LIMELIGHT AGAIN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BONI IN LIMELIGHT AGAIN

Memories of 111-Starred Marriage of Anna Gould and Comte De Castellano Revived by Libel Sult. Naples.—Memories of the ill-starred marriage of Anna Gould, now the duchess de Talleyrand, and Compte Boni de Castellano were |g£nsationally revived here recently by a libel action brought by a Count Aguisollo against the Abbe Tedeschl, at one time the confidential adviser of the deposed queen of Naples, a Bavarian princess, who now lives in Paris. The quarrel between the count and the cleric hinges on their association some years ago in an attempt to establish a powerful newspaper which the abbe had persuaded the ex-queen of Naples to start in the Bourbon interest. It was proposed to make Naples the headquarters of this Bourbon organ, which was to have been backed by a lavish-, outlay of money, part ot which was to have been supplied by the ex-queen and the balance by Comte Boni de Castellane, who at that time was mainly occupied in spending the wealth, which his marriage with Anna Gould had put at his disposition. The Abbe Tedeschl, the moving spirit of the scheme, obtained Boni de Castellane's promise that he would finance the establishment of the newspaper jointly with the ex-queen, and then he made arrangements for Count Aguisollo to take charge of the whole proposition. The count took the matter in hand and set to work with energy. He spent large sums of money on the preliminaries, rented a magnificent building in which to house the •paper, engaged the staff, organized the correspondents and installed the printing plant. In fact, he brought matters to the point where nothing remained but to set the machinery to work and bring out the first issue of the paper. It was at this stage that it became necessary to call on Boni de Castellane for the first installment of the money he bad promised to put up, and Boni being then in Paris the Abbe Tedeschl set out to Interview him there.. Unfortunately for everyone concerned, and especially for Boni de •Castellane. Anna Gould had grown tired of her husband’s eccentricities and was just then preparing her suit tor divorce, at the same time drawing

tight her purse strings as far as the gay young count was concerned. The result was that Boni was unable to fulfill the promise he had given to back the Bourbon newspaper, and as the ex-queen either had not enough money or enough enthusiasm to see it

through alone the project fell through. After this misfortune there was apparently a general falling out. In the course of a quarrel between Abbe Tedeschi and Count Aguisollo the latter accused the abbe of diverting to his

own prorate purse sums which he had received to support the newspaper project from the ex-queen and other sources. Counter allegations were made, and so the unpleasant bickering went on.

Duchess De Talleyrand