Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-01-29
GEN.. SICKLES is
FLAYED BY SON
Charges That GettsburQ Hero
Threatened Suicide.

{ New fOrK, Jan. ZD.-N nile SldntOn
Sickles. General Daniel Sickles' son,
was making n statement, in which he
said that his father had threatened ITO
blow his head Off" If n criminal war
rant was served on him. the contribu
ti0ns of cash TO enable the general To
repay to the state his alleged shortage
Of $23.47G came from NIL parts Of the
country. including an offer of slLo
from General Sulzer.
Stanton Sirkles spoke bitterly of hi
fathers conduct t0wnrd his mother
defended her and demanded to know
what General Sickles had done with
his income. which. the son said
amounts to $4,000 n year.
In discussing his fnther's troubles
Stanton Sickles said:
81 don't know whether father is de
serving of all this sympathy. Mother
and ! have tried for yenrs 10 avoid this
disgrace we nre now suffering. Whnt
/ s has General Sickles done with the SIS
Il 900 II year he receives? lie retired
7 from the army In 1869 with full pay of
$4,000 a year. He owns three houses
In lower Fifth venue FROM which he
Is getting rent OF $4,000 a year.
Mother and ! don't know what he
has done with this money. He Inns tax
EN- all the money which belongs so me
-NNgrandfather. General ~tSBrreft Sic
kIes. died In 1897 and left me md my
sister. Mrs. Dagrell CrackaRtherpe. wife
Of the secretary of the British legation
ut Tokyo. property worth fnillions. tn
Guiding thirty parcels Of land III Kew
York ana 200 acres In New Rochelle.
Two Of the lots In Nassau street were
sold in 1905. Harold r. Willard md my
father formed the sickles Estate I'm
provement company to bald Wins md
TO sell the New Rochelle property
That il still going on. but l never got .
cent 0 has my sister.
BIamss Miss Wiimsrdinp.
"Do you think ! have abused my IN.
ther when let him 70 on In TINT way
and squand<r my fortune With his
ownr' asked the son. The whole
trouble lately" he added. rs caused by
Miss Eleanor Earle WilRlerding. who
fives ut his house. She won't be there
much longer"
1.-THE Bowery bank holds a mortgage
Of $4,000 on my fathers Fifth ave
nue property and is foreclosing the
mortgage because he could net pay
$1,000 interest" said the son. There
is $4,000 unpaid taxes on II and my
mother holds q second mortgage for
$4,000. There Ia $4,000 In iHteresf
due her and mother has a one-third
dover interest IN the property. 1t must
be sold before March o. and we are go
Ing to buy 1t. and the first thing we
will do IL to put Miss Wilmerdiag and
those negro servants, who are the most
impudent lot l ever saw. into the
street.
II want to tell all this because PEG
pie think we are monsters. When !
came here In 1905 TO Introduce my wife
Observation-Disclosures Washington NO
ctety ] took her to see my father. Her
father had just died and left her u for
tune. When ! called oil my father the
next day he said. My son. ! want $40.
600. Can yon Kss our wife to lend it7
Msthsr Bent $4,000.
""What d. yea want 1t forr l asked
~ eve the state said the general
"Hs .a!c: i must have - II rs my
honor. your honor aud the honor Of
your children
II would not allow my wife to let
him hive IL l sent word to my moth
er, who was In Madrid. and she con
suited the vice president Of the Contra
Bank of Madrid and obtaIncd $4,000
which was sent to n New York bank.
md within twenty-four hours Ii was
here.
This was done by a woman whom
my father had not seen for thirty
years and for whom he had never nsk
ed. and he WIS not eve grateful He
has disgrnced liz. | am IN the diplo-
matte service and | had to get a leave
Of absen Z Nh that account
AS for Mrs. I.ongstreet. she ough,
to be grateful. My father got her heI
Job IA postmaster from President Nc
Kinley.
Let her pass the plate around the
fouth II she wants to. She wrote tina
we are trying to disgrace him. 1t II
rot true II Mrs. Longstreet passes
the plate for him 1t will he for Mis-,
Wilmerding. II Ia not n ease OF de
Tending Il northern hero. but of defend
ing Miss Wilmerding. Everybody !,
giving money to hill right and left. hui
mother and | will hHve to pay for II all
Threatens Suicide.
when | Went into his house one 81
bis negroes insulttd me struck the
t.hie and said to the general: i thought
you could command an army 70,
raiino even command these negroes
Saturday when l went To see hin
when he did not know whether til,
warrant issued for him WAS civil ol
criminal, he snid II this is II criiBina
warrant. | shall blow my lead off liz
r. d~raEgini, mother and me down int
the mirp with himself Mother and
have ALWAYS been willing to help him
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