New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-20
TRIAL OF DANIEL E. SICKLES,
CHARGED WIN THE
NURDER OF PHILIP BARTON KEY.
yoURrEESrH DAYS PROCEEDINGS.


i.ikr and sfieers, aud his faithful insspsraoo com
psnks, the Rev Mr.. HAey, unHan'n m'""tsh
vke has been by his eide dunDg the Sooie VIA. MI
Haley il quite indignant St the merry .ase "'u
bv the District. attorney in describing BIN
.els,icsl ,upe" to keep the THEOLOGICAL part Oh TIC
49,, T. wss he who furnished the Scnp,nral
-, - ,ha .y0uuert--beDce the application. Mr.
c,ll songbt an opportunity Of e1pis ming, but Mr.
H.. ssc1;ned Emanuel h. Hart, ard Thomas j.
~ ~ N,v.York ave uDremittiDg IN their attentions
a. N, sollss; Dr. Morebead is eqasiy attentive to
Mr.. Sickles, senior. Mr.. Bsgiols hes not been IN
Csut for the past week. Chevaher Wieko1 eVnces
active ,ympsthies with the defense
The same fsces have been teen IN the Court day
ster day, ard the is always hed TO i's greatest
SPscny.
The Judges decision yesterday admitting the evl'
Seree Of the adultery, took all by surprise This de-
sision hardly covers the admission OF rebutting eVi-
sepes. TIE deierse will be through with IT. proof
tomorrow, and the trial vii probably be over this
day week. T-o council rum up on escn side There
Il 10 charge rom the Judge 10 tnis District.
James Mann, police officer, was recalled, and pro-
dseed a psir Of gentleman's gloves and common
espb; DID no; preserve the cigarettes: I'D,
Emanuel Is. Hart, exaulIed BY mr. brsdy IeoIue
In the City of Nes-YoTk; AIN Surveyor OF the port
Of Ney.YoIk; have koown Mr.. Sckles twelve years;
have seen the witnesses that were examined yester-
t1rsay-Mfs Brown Mr., Mrs. and Miss Seeley; ga"
Them AT Mr. Sickless =; Mr.. Radcliffe suggested to me
son 9 persons would come that Gay TO idenviy MIS-
S,ekIes and requested me to admit them; they caue
admitted them, and they sow Mrs Sckies IN my
To the Judgt-Mrs Brown came on Monday or
Tnetdsy, and the others some four or five days after
ward. .,..
ri tie re quest Of Mr. Sickles.
Mr.. SCkles, by permission OF the Court, Ietrea ID
company with ID. Jaier.
John thompson AN intelligent looking young man,
spe.kipR With broad Scotch accent, was examined
by MI BraoY-I reside in New York; 1 WAS al one
tiae coschnsn for MIR. Slckles; wet to MIN on tue
10th November, 1857 left him on the 4,h OF feofu'
y, 1859; was acquainted with Mr. key by seeing nn
and eIivpg him; Mrs. SCkles went iron the mouse 10
the carriage alone; she went out mostly from ~ TO ],
md renamed out till or >, and sometimes p. IN
the dinner hour was usually or 55i Mr. Slckeb went
away before 70 and usually came back from 10 D.
M Key always iOned Mrs Slckes in the street;
could hardly mention a day that he did net me IT US
he net us at the Presidents, Dir. Douglass Mf
Owns and Mr.. Sdes; sometimes he wOald come
into the carriage and tell me TO drive through back
streets; when ne would meet us, he would al Fays 81
Lutte MFe. Sickles and say Good morning, M tlamei'
aen etimes he would remain on horseback and some
times ofmOunt; be never got INTO the carriage az Mr.
Sekless door, and si~sys but got out before we
got back 10 the house, be always got out at the corner
Of the avenue and Fifteenth street at the Club House;
knew bim On.y once to come home with Mrs. that
wssp Apr or May last year they went into the house
ard vben be came ont could not say; nave known
Mr. Key TO come to the house whue MT, Sickles was
absent In New. York; he always came at dusk; L
knew him 10 be there every night almost; sometimes
i kne~ bin to remain until Iats al night, at other
tiutt old not know how long he would remains he
Mrs. Sickles always renamed IN the stady; the
door was shut while they were tnerei there was sofa
n that room, with its foot right at the door, have
Known him to be there one night while Mr. Sickes
was abeeut till o'clock in tue morning. he was a.
ways there when went to bed at III or IL O'clock
90 not know how long he remained on tne5e occa-
tioIs; there wss NO person IN the room but Mrs.
SickIts ana MIR. Key; II there was any other gentle
man in the house II is likely j would know IT. the
night he was there at O'Clock they we're IN the study;
he came there at O'Clock; there was other visitor
between these hours; tn nk that was May, 1885,
Q. Did snythiDg particular occur to which your at
tentiop was called A. Yes, SIR.
Mr.. Brsdy-Relste II to tue Jury.
Nnness-I was going to bed, about / O'Clock; L
went to the head Of the hall stairs and met the seam.
stress; | stood ard talked a little while with her,
kno~pg that Mr.. Key was in the room; we thought
the hall bell had ruIg and Mr.. Key and Mrs. SIckes
20 the ha door aud looked out; there nobody
there; they shut the hail door ana locked 1t again
they went into the study, and heard them locking
the ttnoy door and the door that leads INTO the paor
there in the study; heard them lOckiog
both of these; stock little while, and heard them
nshg this uOlfe on the sofa for about two or three
minutes mentioned 10 the giIl that they were max
ing NOISE; the girl ran away she would not heaTken
tome daughter, as 1t was not language suitable for
her to hear besrd them for about two OF three min
utssi then went to bed; knew they warnt at no
geod work Isugnterl; hao been ont that night and
cane in At IL clock; knew they were, ana it was
the conversation among us all that
District Attorney-Never mind that
Ni,ness-I have teen Mr. hey come round the
square and pass the house while Mr. Sckes was IN
tia house; perhaps an hour after he woal1 come up
. waen MIR. Sckles had gone out, and then he would
GONE in; tie never came in the house, while MIR.
SiAles was in the house except on reception days,
he assys rang the bell wneu he came u the door;
the last tune / him at Tsy lOr X Msury's
boc store, Pennsylvania avenue; they have visited
the Congressional Cemetery two or three times, aud
two u three times the bUryiDg GROUND at GeorgeOSni
there visits would be- MADE betseen and O'Clock;
he wuld meet us somewhere 10 the street they would
walk Town the grounds out of my sight, and be away
an hou an hour and half then they vOald cOms
back and drive away; sometimes he would ride ana
lie HE sorse another hIoe drove her To the gate.
2, Taep, when they came out again, what would
they do9
A. Thsy both got into the carriage; there was
eny one amt that MIR. hey rode with MIS-. Sickles In
TIE carnage to the Congressional burying. ground
another tine be rode GU; his horse tied the horse
othe innig s1d walked down the buryiug ground
they stad an hour; another time, l brought Mrs
Sickee in tie carriage alone, and when got there |
saw Mr. keys horse there; a coored man
came up and handed her a letter;
she took the letter, and walked down
the graveyard Mr. Key came af.erwsrd in a carriage
and told Lis ctloIed man TO AXE the oauisgs home
he then followed Der down the burypg ground, and
they were there for about an hour; MIR. Key, CON
ms back, went of on his horse scross the country
and Grove Mrs. Sickles home.
To the DstIic, Atorney-Every time Mrs Sickles
rooe out Mr. he7 met her; there mig NJ be some Cays
he cid rot meet u but very few; drove cut nesry
every oayi We len Washington last year the ls July
the hrst time sas him in April, 1883; from that
6me 20 the lst OF July nsver week passed without
my seeing him; the mrs. time, saw him on horse
back With two or three gentlemen, and vas drvlog
NIs. Sckes he visited the house ne 1t day snd visit
&c IL daily after thai tne bat moi vhan Mr. Sickles