The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-18
Under Certain Conditions Rec
Onciliation Is Still Possible.
Mrs. Sickles Says Housekeeper
Must Leave Place.
BELIEVES He NEEDS Her
Estranged Wife of Fighter
Longs to Help Him.
Aged Warrior Loses SpecuIaf-
ing in Wall Street.

New York, Sept. 1S.-Iu a Quiet. cid
world manner and a voice supernaIiy
soft despite a catch that occasionIgy
crept into 1t, Mrs Daniel F. Sickles
unsealed her lips to tell for the first
time the story OF the trouble between
herself and General Sickles.
Mrs Sick1es declared quietly that
only upon two conditions would she
become Eeconeiled to the picturesque
old warrior with whose life hers has
been linked for Al of its SO years.
These conditions are;
FIRST, the general must come a
courtin' just as he did in TIE old DAYS
back in Madrid when he as Amert-
can ambassador to the court of SPAN
and she was a dark eyed. raven hair
ed slip of a girl.
Second, the general must agree iln-
mediately to dismiss his hous.-
keeper, Miss Eleanor Earl Winner
ding, at whose door Mrs. Si,kles and
her SON Stanton place large part of
the blame for the present unfortunate
condition of affairs.
1t Is Up to the General Now.
Mrs. SickIes strove to make it plain
that the general himself must make
the first OVertures- Although she d'd
not directly state so, she allowed 1t
to be clearly understood that she does
not intend to participate IN another
such scene as that which took place
Thursday afternoon last in the foyer
OIL the generals ancient, DlanSe-llke
home at No. % Fifth avenue. On this
occasion Mrs. Sickles and her son were
repulsed when they went TO the house
to inform the general that she had
pawned her jewels in order 20 salts
fy an $4,000 judgment against him,
thus preventing Decorating hands
from being forcibly laid upon his pre-
sentation swords, medals a7d cur4os
collected from all corners of the
globe.
There is little to say she began.
at is not true that the breach DE-
tween Sickles and myself Is impossible.
At this moment, certain conditions
granted, l am ready to step once more
as well as in name But Miss VII
merding must go first. Then, too, the
proposition must come from my hLs-
band and it must be made IN such a
manner as it would be in Spain, my
native country. l am not seeking a
reconciliation-no, it must not be
construed so. But the general is get
ting very old. Eight years more and
he will have reached the century
mark He is feeble. too, and his life
is narrow. He needs"
Here the gentle old sIedy's emotion
overmastered her and she could speek
no more. She spent the rest of the
rhe rest of the story was told by
Stanton Sickles, who believes that ms
father is holding in trust for him
some $4,000 willed to him by his
grandfather
Stanton Sick1es stated empna+ically
that his mother has given the genera
in the last few years more than $4S.-
900.
when mother pawned her jewels |
to satisfy the Lincoln Trust compary |
judgment and saved the generals col |
lection, it was not the first time she
had come to his financial assistance,
said the son. Seven years ago SIZE |
gave him $4,000 without the slight |
est security"
cording to his understandings the gen
eral had been specializing in Wall
street of late years and his losses have
stanton said he had asked President |
webb of the Lincoln Trust company, /
for what purpose the general had boz
rowed the $4,000
mr.. Webb told me that it had bean |
represented to him that the geneIa al
wished to satisfy the claims Of another |
company added the son. IT alter MI |
webb said he discovered that the |
money had been spent in another way
and not one calculated 20 return a !
profit He had no security, so he de-
cIded to sue and foreclose if necessary |
to protect himself
General Sickles remained adamant
today. No statement was nhtainsbi
from either him or his housekeeper.