The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-01-30
SICKLES AWAITING ARREST.
To be Held in Connection with
States Suit.


New York, Jan. 25.-Gen. Daniel
E. Sickles sat amid the war relics
in his Fifth avenue h ne tonight
expecting momentary arrest in suit
brought by the State to recover $685.
476 for which he has failed to ac-
count, it is charged, as chairman of
the New York monument commits
sion. Within his call were his son,
Stanton, and an aged negro retainer.
Save for them he was alone.
The order for the veterans ar
rest, issued this afternoon by Su-
preme Court Justice Rudd at Albany,
and a copy of the complaint were
placed in Sheriff Harburger's hands
this evening by Deputy Attorney
General Francis Kennedy, who
brought them here. Mr.. Kennedy
announced his intention of asking for
immediate service. After talk with
Mr.. Kennedy, however, Sheriff Har-
burger said he would give the docu-
ments to his lawyer to determine
whether they are to be drawn. This,
he thought, would give the general
respite from arrest until Monday.
The order can not be legally served
on Sunday.
May Go to Jail.
Unless Gen. Sickles is prepared to
furnish at once a $4,000 bond,
Sheriff Hamburger said he will have
to go to Ludlow street jail until the
bond is Forthcoming. There was no
inkling tonight as to who, If any
one, would come to the veterans aid.
Gen. Sickles's aged negro met all
comers at the door and turned them
away. For the first time the shades
at all the windows of the house were
raised, and in each window there was
placed an American flag.
The order for Gen. Sickles's arrest
comes as a climax of a distinguished
and picturesque career. Born in
New York in 1926 of a wealthy fam
lily, Gen. Sickles served as soldier,
legislator and diplomat. The guest
Of honor for many years at gather
ings of war veterans, he was recently
refused admission to a local organi-
zation of war veterans on the ground
"of military unskilfulness and reck-
less sacrifice of. the lives of his men.
cCongress, which in 1897 awarded him
a medal of honor for bravery, three
years ago refused to grant him lieu
tenant generalship. In his old age
financial troubles beset him one after
another and his wife, son and daugh-
ter became estranged from him.
An Affair of Honor
Gen. Sickles was a member of the
house of representatives just before
the outbreak of the war, and it was
in Washington that he shot and kill
ed Philip Barton Key, a United
States district attorney, for alleged
attentions to his first wife, the daugh-
ter of an Italian musician.
At the outbreak of the war Gen.
Sickles raised and equipped at his
own expense five regiments of volun-
teers and as colonel of one of them
went to the front. He participated
in most of the great battles of the
war. including Gettysburg, where he
lost leg and achieved distinction
for bravery. He was rewarded by
promotion to the rank of major gen.
eral.
From 1869 to 1878 he served as
minister to Spain, where he met and
married his present wife, the daugh-
ter of a Spanish councillor of state.
Shortly after his return to this coun-
try with her the couple separated
and Mrs. Sickles went back to Spain,
where she remained until 1908. Then
she returned to New York. There
were frequent reports of their recon-
ciliation and for year or more Mrs.
Sickles lived in a house adjoining
her husband, but it never appeared
that they we're. really reconciled.
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