New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-12

LsS tina; s,Iesetn which ~ss geCssasry 10 s9ssaln
- n.yveYs Of vrii,v ee~beTe. tie bec$ne Nsis"
a. The house OF Mr. Seklss. Toe seqaan,aoc- os1s
90 (,r bach believe as III ys.rs tlues M o,cSss
il suan II pbbfc e be j. .Onpsl-d TO ros. 10 'aS
prrity Of bic wife; ne s obliged efier sn1 iT cor
sders be intervals % be away from bis fanny nso,
siou ard 10 leave his siie - the gnsrd'aoSmp snd
r,cf. ction f per own chastity. M hey goes Ehder
the Aprssrercs o! feEd end be e1blD.ts tn9s7 al
tebtoIs Which gsnsury Is ordinarily supposed 70
prompt bet Nnieh IN hs case wac tue Iouo1a1oh oh
ahch the sdulterer sought 70 rear MS destructive
power. We all shoS you that - early - ne @ot0
a March 1853 Il wss reported that tcis BIZ. he VS.
dishOronng bim; Mr.. Sexes sends Tor b'mj
be Key stsIds upon bis honor 81 A4ni
he o~pies the truth Of the impeschreot; re osmands
the author srd from one 70 another re slnds and
pss4es notes, and Shsn he ia unsbe 70 dhcover the
author Of what he represents 20 be caumry he tnen
addresses Dir. Sckles, speaking OF II Ss f.dlcao1s
ard oisgus'ing ca umny, and yet wilma rev usys
s er this very note which BE- sett 70 NJ. Scke'-ln
witch he s0ught 10 restore Mr. Sickl-ss cophdenee--
We will be able ~ show you that If tos i6tlnacy ala
not exist a. the time OF the pOte at 81 events, II oc
cured within few dzvs after. Nos, gente men, see
the cunrirg Cf this Mr. Ksy He feels how base he IT,
When lie Is charged with treachsrous designs toward
Mr. Sck'es he says, II IS the blshest snfon "ocn
cen be offered 10 aud whoever asserts u uins.
meet me 90 the fed Of honor, at the very POM OF
&" the pistol" lie cuts off all communications % the
pant of the world 10 Dir Siskes, aud tnat was tDe
reason why, for period OF nearly one year. alh9usn
he was no doubt almost daily 10 the pfactlee OF his
t.escbsry on his friend, until the Developments ca ne
upop him, ss shall present state, Mr.. Sickles
never hsrbmed thought OF suspicion against
him We will show 700 that frOm t5gt time uoti
TIE 9th Of February, 1853, the rel'tions OF Nf.
Sick lee ard Mr. Key stood perfectly fneooly and that
Dir. Sickles manifested the usual confidence IN him.
90 the 10th Of February two weeks oeforb MS destn
Mr.. Key is Of dinner party AZ Mi. sicslese
bouse and who doe he take there bat bis Own sister
be tsket his sister 20 the house Of hs protltle 1r
that is the only term that can be appIe1 10 tue
woman sho deceives her husband. lie ectusly &C
D. otrpE taf
Of 4 woman With whom he was cuGvatin5 and prose-
cutting those wicked relations IL there any brother
Who would calmly and coldly place his sstsr IN toe
simosphere TO make her the conpanon OF the womsn
with whom Re was prosecuting an illicit intimacy. no
mater what Mrs. S.ckless position before the world
was Now on toe Thursdsy before Mr.. Keys death,
Mr. Sickles has another dinner party at his house;
Mr.. Key is not invited TO that he ID not
there. after dinner Mrs Sickes accompanies
some friends TO Wizards Hotel 10 hop; Mr.. Sickie7
gOss there after hers when he entere the room he hDds
SIR hey sitting by her; as soon as Mr. hey sees nun,
he abruptly leaves The wife; there wa nothing Dot
bis own internal sense OF bsseness which could have
prompted bin thus 10 separate himself from the wife
Of MI. Sckles Mr.. Sickes returning home, on open-
ing Lis letters for the day opens an anonymous letter.
which vas the origin Of the discovery and which will
be placed in evidence before you. The substance q
that letter is that Mr.. Key and hs. Sckles were in
the habit Of meeting at house ID Fifteenth street,
betHeen X and l. streets that Mr.. hey had hlred the
house for the purpose, and that he hsd us as much
of the person Of M SiCklfs's wife rs Mr. Sckles him
elf had Now the nature of Mr.. Sickles wOud never
permit him TO frost TO an anonymous letter II formed
as these are ordinarily fOnnedhe is a man of Dobe
character and would heal IL with contempt Bat there
is degree Of crcumstsntality about this letter. 1t
enters much into DETAIL for II tells where the house
IT, and gives such nklDg Of faith thai 1t satisfies
hiu there lie something requiring investigation, and no
bscOn satisfied Of ell but the identity OF the persons
visiting the house. II turns ont tina, there lie house
where this is des]ribed 40 being; that Mr. ksy bred
that house. and that be wasn the hab OF going there
lint In m a female RlO went before
or ster him. The only question LETT for Mr. Sckles to
solve, was whether this female ives bis wife. Now,
gentlemen, behold again the cunning OF
Mr.. Key in selecting house; 1t was
necessary for him to get in secluded place, or az
all events one i'll section Of your city IN when wit
nesses could not rise mp against him. AM which was
efficiently near 10 Mr.. Sckless bouec to enable him
TO comply with his losts often ss he desired hence
be goes down 70 part of your city which is chiefly
populzted by blacks. But for the disability beyond
The possibility under which the law has rendered that
kind Of testimony, the iniamy OF Mr.. hey would be
Iun before you IN a stream which would disgust and
eicken you. There IL evidence enough, however, 70
get over this disability, aud to correct him IN mis-
tskesbly with the author Of all this run sn essT9ee
On the frst day after Mr. Sickles's commissions Mr.
Woodbridge, 20 inquire into the identity Of the woman
VITO acc mpanied Mr.. hey TO the house in question:
Mr.. Woodbridge goes TO the neighborhood 10
Fifteenth street and arrsnges with tue persons IN
the house opposite TO give him a room on
the next day. While there on Friday he understood
that the woman had last been seen at the house on
Thursday. He informed Mr.. S:ckles OF THE, and or
the following Saturday went and watched the house
for five or six hours, but not discovering anything
went to his boarding house, aud while there learned
that Mir. McCo.key had been To the house with
for him. While he is there at his boarding house
Mr.. MoCosksy returns and delivers the note In that
note Mr. Sickles III unwilling to believe IN the guilt
Of bis Wife writes 10 him to be exceedingly tender in
the prosecution of bis inquiries for he has reason 10
believe that bis wife lie innocent. As soon as MIR.
Woodbridge gets this note he goes TO tue Capitol and
500 Mr. SCkleR and undeT the DeCegeltN U dlsa.
busing the mind Of Mr. Sckles aud of destroying the
hopes which Mr. Sckles i1dalged of bis wiles
fidelity; he tells Mr.. Sckles that, while opposite this
house on Saturday, he had learned that II was on
Wednesday that the woman bad been there last with
Mr.. Key, and not on Thursday. or course, Mr..
Sickles having by Inquiry satisfied himself that hls
wife not at this house on Thursday, when the
time Of her ysit 10 be fixed to the true day, all
his confidence in the n after entirely taken from
him, aud he became convinced that the woman thus
seen was bis wife. Mr. Woodbridge described TO him
the articles Of dress which the woman who accomps
red Mr.. Key wore on the occasion OF her last yst.
Mr.. SCkles at once recognized the apparel
of his wife Conviction more and more
fas:ens issef upon him; he returns home; be
puts her guilt 10 his wife in such way, as che
thought she had been exposed, aud under the
suppositoD of the discovery Of her guilt she ackno VI
edges her dishOroT, and gives him written con'es-
sion. Mr.. Woodbridge having had note sent to him
that night from Mr.. Sckles which, as he was no.
q, home TILL midnight, be could not attend TO un the
next morning, called the next day between 10 and ii
O'Clock, finds Mr.. Sckles perfectly frenzed man,
and is shown by him biz wifes confession. The coun
eel described Mr.. Sckless agony OF grief consequent
the discovery; the sending for Mr. Bu'ter~orta u
take lie wife TO her parents in New-loik the over
wheming anguish experieroed by Mr. Sckles in being
obliged to proclaim bis shame 10 bis inends; MIR.
Butte leaving the house; Mr. Sickess servant
desoryIg the aduteTer passing the house and a.
was his habit when passing in that neisbborhood w1v-
ing ard wbirhDg bis hapkerchief, the servants eX.
claiming, there goes Mr. Key and Mr.. WoOlrdge
looking ont and 6nding that b was 90. Now. the