MADAME GOULD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 96, 11 April 1908, Page 4

MADAME GOULD.

ik'spitc family objections, and the fact that- under .lay (iould's will he:' action will deprive her ol a million and a half .sterling, Anna (iould has decid" I to'marry Prince de tfagan, said a cable message from Aew York last week. . -Madame Anna (.lould married Couni-. 13oni de Castellane, and divorced him. Early in January h'- had a violent encounter with Prince de ftagan in i'aris. 1 he motive, it is alleged, was jealousy, due to .Madame (.iould becoming engaged to j'rince de Sagan. The Daily Mails Paris correspondent writes:-—Outside the Catholic Church of »St. Pierre de Chaillot. Count Honi de Castellane, Deputy for the district of the 13asses-Alps, and divorced husband ol .Madame Anna Could, violently as-

saulted his cousin. Count Elie de Talley-rau.d-Perigord, Prince de .Sagan. *ihe Prince staggered and Jell into the gutter, but immediately got up and rushed at the Count, whom he beat with his stick. Several persons tried to separate the combatants, among them being Count Jioni's brother, dean de Castellane. The .Prince sustained a severe bruise on the foreJiead before two policemen seized both men and took them to the oiliee of the District Police Commissary, At the ollice Count Jioiii de Castellane staled his name and quality, giving his age as 08; while the Prince de Sagan gave his as 48. Uotli, however, absolutely refused to make any statement as to the reason for the assault.

In an interivew the Count said: "Let me say at once that t went to tho memorial Mass for my deceased relative this morning without any intention whatever of picking a quarrel with the Prinw de Sagan. To tell the truth, i was surprised to see him in the church, for he has for years been on bad terms with all the familv.

" When the Mass was at an end, Sagan passed me in the church, and, as h(> did so, brushed up against me and deliberately put on his tall hat in church, tapping the crown of it as a provocation to myself.

"J. followed him out of the church, for I saw the intended slight, and when we were quite out of the church t wen!., up to him and said,. 'Here are the Mew lear presents 1 owe you,' and spat fu'l in his face. Sagan raised his walkingstick to strike me, aud I parried the blow with my cane. As I did so the point of my cane touched his forehead, causing him to bleed profusely and knocking oil' his hat. lie started back, aud in doing so, fell into the gutter, from which he ought never to have got up." " Do you think,'' the Couut was asked, "that the Prince will seiut his seconds to you r' "i do not know." answered the Count.

As to the cause of the quarrel, the Count said: " It is an entirely private matter, of which I dosire that nothing at all shall lw printed." Prince do Sagan, who was seen later, said: " 1 had no intention whatever oi provoking Castellane, but I liave been told that for several weeks past he has been seeking to pick a quarrel with me whenever he should meet, me in the street. Therefore, when 1 went up the aisle of the church, and saw Castellane in one of the rows, looking straight at me, 1 was taken aback, and, expecting some sudden onslaught, I. instinctively put on my hat. I had no intention whatever of giving oll'ence or being rude.

"Castellane's attack on niu outside the church was unprovoked and brutal. 11(i deliberately sought me out and spat at me. I. raised my stick to give him a thrashing, and .he lunged at me with his cam-, the point of which wounded my forehead and caused hemorrhage. 1 intend to liirn for assault." Asked if he would light the Count, the Prince said he would take, the advice of his friends, and be guided by them.