Arizona republican., 1913-01-26
Daniel E. Sickles, One of Americas Famous Fight ing Civil War Generals Accused of Failing to Ac- count for Fund
LAST YEARS
 FULL OF TROUBLE
Separated in Turn from His Wife, Son and Daughter Has Been Turned Down by Com rades and by Country
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPAFCHl

NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-General Daniel E. Sickles sat amid his war rel- ics in his Fifth Avenue home tonight expecting momentary arrest on suit brought by the state of New York to recover $23,746 for which he failed to account, it is charged, as chairman of the New York monuments committee. Within his call were his son Staunton and an aged negro retainer.
 The order for the veterans arrest was issued this afternoon by the Su- preme Court Justice Budd at Albany, and a copy of the complaint placed in the hands of Sheriff Hamburger this evening by Deputy Attorney General Francis D. Kennedy, who brought them here. The order cannot be legally served on Sunday.
 Unless General Sickles is prepared to furnish at once a S30,000 bond, Sheriff 1 Hamburger said he will have to go to the Ludlow street jail until the money l is forthcoming There is no inllling to- night as to who, if any one would come to the distinguished veterans aid. l General Sickles declined to see cal l lers, or to comment on the charges I met all callers at the door and turned them away, but for the first time in weeks the shades at all of the windows l in the house are raised, and in each window was placed an American flag.
 Mrs. Sickles who recently pawned her jewels to save her husbands war relics from sale will not come to his aid lin the present crisis it is believed It 1 is said she will welcome him with open arms if he will come and live with her 1 but does not feel she cain put out all her money in his behalf.
 The order for General Sickles' arrest comes as a climax to a distinguished and picturesque career Born in New i York in 1925 of a wealthy family. | Sckles served as soldier, Q legislator and a diplomat. He was the guest of honor at many years gatherings of civil 1 war veterans until he was recently re- fused admission to the local organiza-
 tion of civil war veterans on the ground of military unskiIlfullness and reck- less sacrifice of the lives Of his men Congress which in 1897 awarded him l a medal of honor for bravery, three | years go refused to grant him lieu tenant generalship in his old age. Fi- nancial troubles beset on him one after another and his wife, son and daugh- ter became estranged from him. Gen eral Sickles was member of the house of representatives just before the out break of the war and it was in Wash ington that he shot and killed Phillip
 Barton Key, a United States district
 attorney for alleged attentions to his
 wife. the daughter of an Italian mu-
 sician. At the outbreak of the Civi
 War. General Sickles raised anC
 equipped at his own expense, five reg
 ments of volunteers and as colonel o1
 one of them went to the front. He par
 ticipated in most of the great battles
 of the war including the battle of Get ; tysburg where he lost a leg anC
 achieved distinction for bravery beine | rewarded by promotion to the rank O 5 major general From 1869 to 1873 h, served as minister to Spain where h,
 met and married his present wife, tn, : daughter of the Spanish councillor O
 state. Shortly after his return to thi country with her the couple seperatet and Mrs. Sickles went back to Spail
 where she remained until 1908 Thel
 she returned to New York There Wer
 frequent reports of reconciliation an'
 for d year or more Mrs. Sickles live,
 in the house adjoining her husbands but it never appeared that they wer : really reconclled