New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-26
WARRANT ISSUED
FOR GEN. S|CKLES
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| he proceeded to serve the order of ar
rest last evening.
| If no bond is forthcoming tomorrow
and the general bars the door to Julius.
! II may become necessary 10 maintain a
siege Of the premises at No. % Fifth
avenue, similar 10 the one maintained
/ higher up the avenue, by subpoena
servers for the Pujo committee some
weeks ago.
| The Sheriff turned the paper he re-
| Kennedy over to his counsel, Emanuel
! Blumenstiel, last night. His present
! plan is 10 call General Sickles on The
| telephone tomorrow morning-when
eide -7hether he has jurisdiction in the
| case--and have a friendly chat with
| him, arranging, if possible, 10 serve
| the order of arrest later in the day.
In case. however, the old veteran has
/ been unable to arrange for bail and
refuses To surrender himself volunta-
rily Sheriff Hamburger will go in per-
| son in the afternoon 10 his friend 9
make formal demand for his surrender.
| Then. If he is shut out, he will post
guard.
Formal Demand by Sohmer.
After striving in vain for two years
to get an accounting of the funds Of
the New York Monuments Commission
formal demand was made upon Cen
eral Sickles last October by William
| Sohmer, State Controller, who told the
| general he had until December u, 1912,
, to show what had become of the
money. General Sickles's answer was
not satisfactory. and on December 10
Attorney General Carmody took hold Of
the matter. The amount unaccounted
for was $2S476.
| The New York Monuments Commits
sion has charge Of the erection of mon
uments To New York volunteers on
I
ceeded the Gettysburg and Chatta-
nooga Battlefield Monuments Commits
| sion, which was established in 1856.
The state since that time has appropri-
ated $500, III for the erection Of monu-
ments. and Of this sum $4,000 has not
been spent by the commission.
| General Sickles wrote to the Con-
troler under date Of December : as
follows:
| | regret TO be compelled 70 ask YOU for
| a brief extension OF the time named FOR
the payment of the amount | owe the
| state | beg your kind indulgence until
| December 90 when, ] am confident. | shall
| be able to obtain 3 loan on my three
| houses and lots on the corner Of Fifth
! avenue and 9Th street.
| At the request Of the Attorney Cen
eral the time was extended, and in the
mean time the other members Of the
! commission held meeting here ami
! repudated the management Of the
commissions affairs by General Sickles.
| Before that the other members had
| threatened to resign.
Son Paid Part Of Debt.
The family Of General Sickles. in
| Guiding his wife, from whom he had
! long been separated, attempted to come
| to his rescue, and on December u his
son. Stanton Sickles. paid $1,000 Of
| the amount due to the state.
General Sickles lost great deal of
money in Wall Street, but he persist;
emily asserted that everything was all
right and that all he wanted was \
| little time.
| Suit was brought against General
Sickles by the Bowery Savings Bank,
| which held a mortgage on his Fifth
avenue property for $11S,OOO, and there
were other suits. His immediate trou-
bles were precipitated by the closing, IN
! February. 1912, Of the Universal Trust
COMPANY, OF which he was president.
Elbridge l.. Adams, appointed by the
sunreme Court to compute the amount
dine the Bowery Savings Bank on the
two mortgages, reported yesterday
that the amount was S9l. 1893. One Of
the mortgages was for $4,000 and the
! other for $1,000. The total amount