The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-09
A FAMOUS IHFaIzUE

a20OS LIZ IEaL~ JA
"Reminiscences Q. tbs siefles-Esy SCANDAL
Revived by the gecen, Death o. wash
tngtoz Caterer.
Two houses below this is the old club
house, now used for Offices, In which
Payne tried to sssassinate Seward, and
where Barton Key was take,, after lie
was shot By Gen. Sickles. Ii IS 5 big
double brick house OF three stories.
sith TWO old fashioned brick chi1nnavs
rising like seHtipels from lis either end.
From It's seccRd-story windows Barton
ker used to wave his handkerchief TO
Mrs. Sickles. who lived ina great pal
ace On the other side Of The square
She would reply with her handkerchief
Whether the coast was clear, a;ad tie
two thus carmel 81 one OF the mos. t.
nous intrignes in I hissory- Lafay-
cite Square IS aow SO full u lu-1urianS-
lr-leayed trees that snea signals could
not be- seen if they we're znGde to-iaT.
But N 1851 the trees were small, and
IN time their open signaling attracted at
tantion. Gen. SickIes had married his
wife in New YORK. She was thedaugh-
ter OF an Italian music-master in that
city, and a. the time OF Sickles- mar
rage TO her insidioas remarks we're
made about her IN the papers. She was
very beautiful, and was. WAC, she mar
RED Gen Siekles, only sixteen years
old. The advent Of the compile o Wash
ington i~aauguratad wild and fashion
able lie for this Italian girl, and no
money was spared il her husbands
entertainments. The house in which
they lived was elegantly furnished, and
Is still a fine ma3sion. At present the
Spanish Embassy are using Ii, and lis
rent must be, I shonld say, 5000 a
year. Barton hey, though he had a
lovely wife a. Baltimore. fell in love
with Mrs Sickles, and the intrigue was
carried on fDr months before Gen.
Siekles suspected anything was wrong.
At last be discovered the intrigue,
and found tina. Key and his wife were
IN the habit Of freauenting q little house
On Fifteenth street in negro neighbor-
hood, and that Key had rented the
house for the purpose. On Friday.
February 22d, Mrs. Sickles and Bar
ton keT, by prearrapgeI signals,
went to this house and stayed there two
hours. That night Sickles charged his
wife with her guilt, and she broke down
and confessed the whole crime. Sickles
was terribly broken. but ne made her
write ont her confession and sign il in
the presence OF witnesses. These things
transpired between Saturday and Mon
day. On Monday, Barton Key, know
ing nothing of this expose, again signal
ed Mrs. Sickles from this ilonsc. Gea.
Sickles say the signal. As kev started
to-eome over to his house Gen. Sickles
wen. to meet him. They met on the
corner OF this square just beloS this
house. Key put out his hand and said
How are you Mr.. Sickles?" when the
latter refusing to take it. replied: 4Tou
nave disllonored my home and family
and you must die"
He then drew a revolver.
Key threw up his arms and begged
him not to shoot.
Sickles shot, and the ball lodged in
KEYS groin.
Key staggered to a tree which has
been since cut down for relics, ard fell
upon one knee. Sickles shot him
again and again and Key fell crying
murder"
Sickles then walked OFF, saying. it was
reported, II think the scoundrel is
dead" He was arrested that night and
tried. some of the most notorious law
yers in the country taking part in the
case. He was freed, and lived to do
brave service in the late war, and is now
practicing law in New York.
Barton Key was carried bleeding and
dying into the old clubhouse. and from
thence his body was taken to Baltimore
for burial. He was - fine-looking man.
Star Spangled BanneL" He was q
nephew of Chief Justice Tsney, who
was IN the bench at the time, and he
had brother who had been killed be-
fore this in a duel over a woman
1t was in this old clubhouse that
Wormley, the caterer, who died last
week, did some of his first epicu-
rean cooking. After Keys death
in it the house fell into dis
favor, and the club moved from it. II
was then rented to William II. Seward,
who lived here during the war as Sec
rotary OF State. Before it was used as
a clubhouse Chief Justice fancy lived
in it while he was Jackson's secretary OF
the Treasury, and it was built years be-
fore that by Commodore Rodgers, who
was then called the Nestor OF the Navy.
1t was a high-toned boarding house dur
ing Tyler's time, when John Spencer, a
member of the Cabinet. lived in it. At
ter his attempted assassination, Gov,
Seward was sick in the house for many
months before he recovered from the
| effects of the wounds inflicted by Payne.
After he left it Gen. Belknap occupied
it as Grants Secretary of War, when II
again saw a continuous round of gayety
until the great Belknap ~scan6..l oc-
Cured. and it again degenerated into
o clearinghouse. 1t is now occupied
by Government Observation-Disclosures
Corr. cleveland Leader.
Society young ladies are greatly ex
cited over the reports of a new disease
affecting their facial beauty that'has fol
lowed the use of the mammoth and clum'
sy smelling salts bottles that have been
in vogue during the past season-some-
thing like a cancerous affection of the
| nose. saws the Utica observer. The