The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-05-21

.drugged, % it is said, and of what Isl.
lowed that fatal meal the poor woman
vas never oognizant, but certain it is that
KY held that event q rod of terror.
above her, stricken soul, and with it
scourged her to tho commission Of deeds
darker than that Of the Egyptian plague.
She became mere resistless tool in the
hands Of this: accomplished william, and
day after day. this .fiend would sit in tho:
Park. opera glass, in hand, and watch the
windows of that fateful mansion, until
the unhappy mistress would make her
appearance and signal with her handker.
chief that she know he was waiting for
her, and very soon. afterwards yelled
lady would be seen vending her way to.
wards the little gray house in the north.
.ern part Of the city. s>,.1;.E 49,
at last the husband was aroused, and
10 saw Is one from whose eyes the scales
had fallen. He confronted his wife. and
she confessed to him tho whole tale, from
its unhappy beginning to criminal end,
and bade him watch for the appearances
Of Keys his Signals The enraged hus.
band waited only long enough to witness
the approach Of his enemy, when, Selling
bis hat and revolver, he. rushed into the
bright sunshine Of 1 pleasant afternoon.
through tho Park, filled with pleasure
strollers, and fred shot after shot at Kew,
who, terrified, ran towards the clubhouse,
but fell bleeding from numerous wounds
1T the foot Of an oak tree near the side.
walk. 49,.
The miserable man was picked up and
carried into the club-room where he
shortly afterwards died, and went to
make such peace Is was possible with his
God. The tree against which the MUIR
dered man fell was literally Clipped to
pieces by the crowds of lrelic.hunters
who locked to the city after the tragedy
and who years afterward visited the Va.
rious points of interest connected. with the
cause ceIebre.
Sickles was confined in the old prison.
near the City Hall, where his little daugh-
ter, then abouts5 years old, sensitive
little creature, with long golden ringlcts
and large thoughtful eyes, was daily
brought, until the agony Of visiting her
father in his Imprisonment was so great
that it was decided best never to bring
her there again.
The mother was carried home by her
friends, and, to evince her humility and
sense of degradation, har he'd oed made
on the floor, refusing to sleep on any
thing more pretensious than the simplest
pallet.
Sickles was really infatuated with his
wife, and, notwithstanding her unfaithfu:.
ness to him, after q little while he
broug hit her secretly back to Washington,
and they lived together in the house lust
back of the new Republican, building.
Mrs: Sickles never making her appearance
outside the house until she was carried
thence never to return in the flesh. This
was the story told me by an old Wash.
ingtonian, Is we strolled along, taking in
the beauty of the clear blue SKY, budding
trees, casting their lacy shadows over the
grass as green as green could be, and, as
it interested me, although by no means
an unfamiliar tale, I take the liberty of
writing it to you.
But. let me add, Sickles' sorrows were
not deep enough to prevent his making 4
second matrimonial attempt, and two
winters ago he appeared 1T different
scenes Of gayety accompanied by an ex.
quisitely beautiful Spanish bride, whose
loneliness awoke murmurs of admiration
wherever she moved.