Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1906 — ANNA GOULD DIVORCED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ANNA GOULD DIVORCED.

Count Roni Loses, mul Wife and Fortune Are Gone Forever. Final separation from home and Income is the cruel fate' meted out by French justice to Count Boni de Castellano, tlie wife-beating spendthrift, who had won the affection and fortune., of Jay Gould's daughter and rapidly dissipated both. The decision, granting a divorce without even an “alimentary allowance,” handed down in Paris by the Tribune of the First Instance of the Seine, Judge Ditte presiding, gives Countess de Castellane the custody of her children, who, however, may not be taken from Fr.-tm-e without the consent of their father. The end of the’famous case" came suddenly. The court brushed aside the demand of the court’s lawyers for an examination of witnesses, and, as expected, the public prosecutor did not even ask to be heard. In granting the countess the custody of her children the court allowed, the count only the usual rights to see them and share in the control of their education, which was not contested. The count is given the right to see the Children at stated periods at the home of their grandmother, and to keep them a month annually during the holidays. Boni’s demand for an “alimentary allowance of $50,000 annually” was pronounced by the court to be without foundation in law and was rejected. The only point decided In the husband's

favor was the order that the countess may not take the children from Franco without their father’s consent. The count appointed the president of the chamber of notaries to liquidate the affairs of the husband and wife.- The Judgment was given with costs against the coll nt. Anna Gould, youngest daught& of ; the late Jay Gould, was married to Count Ernest Boniface de Castellane, eldest son of the Marquis de Castellane, at the New York home of her brother, G(s>rge J. Gould. March 4. 1595. the late Archbishop Corrigan officiating. Miss Gould’s dowry was understood to have been $18,000,000, and it was stated that her Income was SOOO,OOO a year. Immediately after the marriage the couple left the United States for France, where the extravagant manner In which they lived attracted attention. About five years after the marriage Count and Countess de Castellane were reported to be financially embarrassed. it being alleged that the count had spent about $7,000,000 of his wife’s money. An adjustment of tlie affairs of the couple became necessary and considerable litigation followed, with the result that the Gould family intervened and the Income of the countess was reduced to $200,000. Feb. sos the present year Countess de Castellane entered a plea for divorce. The three children of the Castellane* are George, Boni and Jay. the youngest being the namesake of bls mother’s father.

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER.

THE DIVORCED PAIR.