Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-30
He IS SON
OF GEN. D. f. S|CKLES
A. S. -MoIyneux, a Car 0iIer OF
Hoboken, Tells How He
Was Abandoned as Baby.

NEW YORK, September 3O.-The ew
York World today published report to
the effect that Alfred Summers Molyneux.
car oiler for the Lackawanna railroad
at Hoboken, believes he has ample
grounds for asserting that he is the son
Of Gen. Daniel E. Sickles of New York,
soldier and diplomat. Molyneux, In his
story, declares that he was found drusged
in carpet bag, when one week old. on
a train at South Amboy. n. ]. He be-
lieves that he is the son Of zen. Sickles
and his first wife, Teresa Bagioli. whom
Gen. Sickles later divorced. Molyneux
recently advertised in the newspapers for
information concerning Teresa Basioli.
daughter of Antonio Bagioli, a famous
Italian musician, who at the age of seven
teen was married to Gen. Sickles.
Believes Mother Concealed Birth.
Mr.. Molyneux says that he believed his
mother concealed his birth from his
father. who he believes. IS Gen. Sickles.
He recalled the fact that his mother be-
came involved in an affair with Philip
Batron Key. then United States district
attorney at Washington. about year be-
fore his birth, and that about hve
months after he was born Gen. Slckles
shot Key to death.
Mr.. MolyneuX has been employed by
the Lackawanna road for twenty years.
Il was found in a carpet bag September
10. 1858, but it was not until the early
summer of 1885 when | was tWenty-Seven
years old, that knew l was not the son
of Henry and Betsey Molyneaux of Jersey
City
He went on to tell how he had discover
ed that Mrs Mary King, an aged nurse
living in Jersey City, had Information
concerning Ms birth.
Molyneux said that Mrs. King stead
tasty refused to give him the name
which the young woman had given to the
captain, but that once before Mrs. King
died she said to him:
Mr.. Molyneux, all l can say TO you
now. or ever will be able to say to you,
is that I have excellent reasons for De-
lleving that you are the son OF Mrs. Dan
iel L. Sickles whose husband was con-
gresham from New YORK.
Taken Into Molyneuk Home.
Mrs Mo!yneux had lost a child the day
Molyneux was found, and through a Dr.
Lutkin, who is now dead, Molyneux was
placed in the Molyneux home and adopt
ed by Mr. and Mrs. Molyneux. Molyneux
said that he inquired Of DIR. Lutkin re-
garding his parentage, but that the ply
stefan would tell him nothing except that
when Molyneux was about seven years
old a stranger had entered the doctor S
office and inquired about the baby found
in a carpet bag.
He told the doctor that the boys father
was a powerful man in Washington and
the child must be found. DIR. Lutkfn re-
fused, on account of promises he had
made to the Molyneuxs, to give any IN
formation in regard to the child.
Molyneux said that he had been stag
cercd when he heard that his father might
be Gen. Sickles, and that he had felt 1t
impossible to go to Gen. Sickles in regard
TO the matter. However, he and his wife
had attempted later to see Gen Sickies,
T blu, had not succeeded. The thought that
perhaps his mother is still living and
that she had need of him in her old age
had caused him to advertise in the news
papers, he said.