Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-27
GEN. S|CKLES'S PEN
GUIDED BY CUPID?
Son, Aiding Mother, Gives Out
Alleged Love Letters Ad-
dressed to Society Woman.

NEW YORK. Sept. 27.-Stanton
Sickles. the son of General and Mrs.
Daniel e. Sickles, taking up the
cudgels against his father in vindica-
woman is responsible for the thirty
two years separation of his parents.
General Sickles, in an pen letter
had made an insinuation against his
wife in these words:
~ have not lived with Mrs, Sickles
since 1880 for good and sufficient rea-
o n which | have heretofore forbore
and declined to discuss"
Referring to this the son said:
THE fearful statement of General
Slckles concerning my mother makes
It necessary for me to disclose his
friendship for his person. The wom-
an he mentioned is not Miss Eleanor
e. Wilmerding, the generals house
keeper who, Mrs. Sickles says, has
the general in her power
First Separation In 1873.
MY father returned to the United
States for the first time without my
mother September 8, 1876. l was /
years old at the time, and my sister,
Mrs. Edna Crackenthorne, was 2
years old. My grandmother, the gem
erals mother. and my half-sister.
Laura Buchanan Siekles. my fathers
daughter by his first marriage, were
living with us at the time and stayed
in Paris with us.
Our home was at 8 Rue de Pres
bourg. My fathers trip to America
was a pressing business engagement
connected with an unpaid settlement
against the Erie railroad. and instead
of returning in three or o IL months,
as expected, my father did not go
back to Paris until June. 1871"
Stanton Sickles declared his father
had only stayed two weeks with his
family in Paris when he again re-
turned to New York and did not go
to Paris again until August 10, 1879.
1.-THE friendship which took his
father away from his home began in
April, 1878, and continued until 1897
II broke it up"
She Returns to Fathers Home.
In 1881, when General Sickles re-
turned to Paris and closed up his
home there, his mother, Sickles said,
went to the home of her father, the
Chevalier de Cregh, in Madrid, as
her physician told her to take her
| children there for their health. Gen
eral Sickles returned alone to New
York, the son declared.
MY father and mother never met
after that until | brought my mother
to New York on August q. 1908, after
our return from Athens, where | had
been stationed In the American lie
ton" Stanton Sickles said.
During the lapse of years from
April, 1881, to August, 1908, my mother
York, but was always prevented bv
violent protests from the general
The young man also showed two
love letters containing burning terms
of endearment, which he said his
father had written to the woman in
question.
One of these letters vas as fol
lows
"Darling-Am I never to hear from
you? l have written to you SO often
and am yet without a word from
you. You know very well that II
you were suffering and asked me to
write you / could not refuse.
you must have a heart. Is il
turned to stone? l hear on good au-
thority hat your mother said before
she sailed: AT last we have got
rid of Sickles and / am glad of it,
81 love you as I have always loved
you, and, believe me, such a love as
mine is not to be thrown aside with
disdain or Indifference. = ]
have given you my owe for ever sc
many years. l beg you to write me
II am holding off death with one
hand while | am writing my memoirs
with the other. . . In the chap
ter on which | shall describe you
want you to appear as ! found you
the one happy vision of life, without
blemish or fault. =
IF this be an illusion, let me keep
1t to the end. Fondly, DAN"
After reading her husbands state
ment, Mrs. Sickles, in the first :
of anger, said she would foreclose the
$40, 600 mortgage she holds on his
house, and dispossess him
Later, however, she declared:
81 shall do nothing to injure him.
After all, he is the father of my chill