New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-13
GENERAL S|CKLES AND
HIS WIFE RECONC|LED
Enlargement Of 27 Years
Ended by Financial Difficult
ties of War Veteran.
SHE SATISFIED JUDGMENT
Came from Seashore as Soon as
She Learned of Husbands
Plight, Son Says, and
Pawned Jewels.

After being eStranged for more than a
quarter Of century General and Mrs.
Daniel f. Sickles are at last to be re-
united. Stanton Sickles son of the gen.
eral. who. with his mother. lives at the
carlton Hotel No. West Sth street
%,id last night he was satisfied there
would be a reconciliation.
This follows the announcement yester-
day by Sheriff Hamburger that he had
received word from the Lincoln Trust
Company that the Judgment held by the
company against the general had been
satisfied and the war veterans property
would not go under the hammer as had
been advertised.
The person responsible for the general 8
property to be saved was none other than
his wife. whom he married forty-oDe years
ago. but from whom he had lived apart
for the last twenty-seven years. To sat
isfy the Judgment Mrs. Sickles. who is OF
spanish birth, pawned jewelry which her
husband had given 10 her shortly after
their marriage. IN a Sixth avenue pawn
shop.
Neither General Sickles nor his wife
could be seen last night. Stanton Sickles
declared that II was not until they had
read IN the papers that they knew any
ching regarding the generals financial DIFF
1oulties. He said they had been staying
AZ seashore resort when they learned
81 Il, and that his mother decided to come
back to the city and offer every assist
sncs 20 her husband.
stanton sickles could hardly control his
emotions when M explained to a Trih-
line reporter how his mother pawned her
levels in order 70 help his father out OF
his difficulties He said that while his
mother was satisfying the Judgment Of
IS COO she often repeated: II am doing IL
Tor my dear one, and I ann more than glad
~ tho oprortunitv'
Nj sickles said ne had neither seen nor
spoken 10 hs father for two years. II
vas not Until wednesday evening. he
.aid. that he saw Zig father n a dinner At
the Hotel Lafayette surrounded by q
rrinbsr 90 his vetetar friends lie said
nb ana roi SPEAK 20 rim Elton, but be often
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husband
1r- s.lkies was the daughter OF a
Spanish councillor Ut state and rhe niece
lf the Warehouses Noyaliches. She aud
tle general were married I'm 1871 az court
Willie General sickles was United states
Minister to Madrid. In 1873 General
sickles aud his wife returned TO this
country and two children were born TO
lHcnl, a son and a daughter.
Their marital troubles soon began, and
Tho Spanish belle, as Mrs. Sickles had
been called, returned TO her native coun-
try At the request Of her son she Te-
turned 70 America in 1903. and since then
stanton Sickles has endeavored to bring
his parents together