New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-03
TIE SICKLES TRAGEDY.
StCKLES AND KEY.
corsspozss.oe Of TIE n. Y. Trsun..

Intelligent Washington, living 10 tee hoeis or resort
irc 10 tnsm, has not yet sp'ung ne~ topci aud
.iurid Washington is Of course sgspe Socisty still
nouns the loes Of a f.sa.onabie young man; sai
Congress divides its thoughts between Appropr anon
bile and tie sbseLt member whose name IL brought 70
rnird al every call OF the rol. Never was plsce
med for scandal than Washington, and an event Ike
this at opee gives unity 70 the Heterogeneous elsuents
Of which the city toward the close Of session, Is CON-
posed TIE air il still ~ Of flying rumors, but It has
b.eu defnitively settled which killed and which was
Killed, although there is division Of opinion IS to
whether it WAS the thorsI or tie abdomen tina. re-
ceyed the ball. &c was the case Ia the School Tor
Scandal"
Public opinion az first set strongly in favor o! Mr.
Sickles. almost every ran feeling that he himself
would have acted substantially 81 the homicide did
uIder similar circumstances but mJre and more
light has been shed upon the previous history Of the
p.ties the current has changed and men ask whether
NJ Sckes was tie to cast thi. sore, or mis- wife
the woman in whose behalf SO bloody revenge ia
ex,usabe. Against her snd agsirs. Mr.. Bltterworth
the tide sets more strongly than ever.
One certain Of nothing in this s,andallovDg city
but the few facts which subjoin Me / believe, sa-
theuc-a. all events they from persons likely 10
know and such Of them IS we're accessible have been
corroborsted by observation.
That the ir.in scy between Mrs. Sckles and Mr.
Key wss brought to her husbands stten,on year
ago is knorr. 4 Mr.. 8. Of New York, whose name
it is unnecessary to give in full being rs,her slsosp
bls yourg msn last session fell violently in love with
Mrs. Sckles, who was always free in manners, sni
battered BY devotion, "a what woman is not BE
coon became jealous Of District-Attorrey hey, and
watched him. At length he found Whist seemed to him
EFF. bas bfa susni7iora II M his
knowledge tba. the guilty pair locked together in
private room in o. of our hotels: believe for two
hours He communicated this fact to Mr. Sckies, who,
to bis kind iniormants surprise assailed him with
sbuiye language and forbade bin his house thence
forward. Mr.. b. returned to New.Yoik ciestfAllen,
and Mr Key remained master Of the field, continuing
TO he intimate with both man and wife 81 heretofore.
LIST Summer, Key wss in New-York on no osten1i-
bic business /, was noticed that he daily left his hotel
a. precisely the same hour, ard !. is cODjectared
what bis regular appointment was.
Havrg been told somewhat IN detail yhat the
srang. nepts for meeting we're, had the curiosity to
visit the house in Fifteenth street, which hey hired
thee moths ego Of $50 month. Having heard it
deicrted as poor negro bu. in the fields was sur
priced 10 find that il was bull of slbstsoal brick, aud
stood directly upon the street. II is queer bulding
two stories in hight, narrow, With roof slightly
sopipg toward the sidewalk, small porch, sni l.
running back to a muddy alley.
A wooden stable stands next door. 4 man, who was
grooming horse in front of H. sad that he bai almost
every morning at 9 OF 10 o'clock seen M. Key whom
be knew by sight, enter the front door of the brick
houte. lie generally on foot, but s3mstimes on
horseback hitchng his iron.gray n ooAvsnsnt post
hers had seen Mrs. Sckles GO il st the same door
rarely; but he never had. This TALES VITA my infor
nation from another quarter.
II seems that Key vas in the habit Of sgnfying his
prtsetce in the house by red ribbon hung from an
UPPER window in the rear which be from the
cross streets. Mrs. SicLes would walk down one of
these usually street, which is nesres. her house,
and upon catching sight of the welcome signal, wouli
dart between the negro buts up the bin alley, along
ore side o. which path, comparatively dry, snd
by a back gate )uid reach the trys.ing place. Some
tines she was in her morning drees sometimes de
euised often With her face enye0psd 10 close hood.
The house is conveniently near, being only two
squares noItherly and easteriy of her husbands
retiderce which used to be occupied by Judge Wood
bury and il about equ distatt from the White House,
the War Department and the jackson statue in the
center Of the psrk which it fronts. In the dnec.
line between the two houses between lafayette square
sd the negro quarter, snd not much more than a
sharp Iife-shot from each, the most sumptuous
residences in WsshlDgton-Mr. COrJofans for one,
Senator S'idells for another. The contrast is even
more striking than that between -oaixsy and Mer-
Ger street But Washington is city Of contrasts By
length snirg her walk little Mrs. Sicslss could 60 or
come by different road every dsy for fortnight;
and her proper ard lawful euan:s might lead her
within a stones throw Of her lover.
However, they could telegraph to each ether across
the Perk be being haJHue Of VIVA. is called the
Washington Club House, missioner now, the club
hsvirg been dissolved year sgo. The balliiGs is
still used however private restaurant, and is
much frequented by the fashionable young bloois of
TIE town and their friends from abroad.
AL these circumstances calculated 10 work
upon the Imagination and to fire the blood of roman
tie yourg Italian, such a. Mrs. Scklssis And Key
said Last Summer-wlo although 70 one intimate With
tin did not then Suspect bin Of tbisthst be for
" French intrigue fg for common hcense Frsach
intrigue and romsuce, with good sp CO of danger
in it,
person who saw tie Two leave the house after
one Of their meetings, somewhat more than q week
ego, lie BY the front she by the back door, .so saw
man closely wrapped in e shawl, standirg where ne
cosld see ard apparently observing them. Tnis man
is believed 70 bs al innate Of NJ. Sckle7s house 1t
would be iIjadicious 10 publish his name, since tie
arnoymOus ettsrs are sscribed oLim. Letters say
for NY information that the received on Thurs-
day or Friday las the frs. nor the second bat
tie last Of series ard Sss explicit in its st,e-
uerts than any OF the preceding. If this be 30, a. s
affirmed upon apparently good authority it will ma
tensy alter the aspec. VI the csse and No: in favor
OF Mr. Siciles.
took the pains 10 look al the mar1erei msn as he