The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-01-30
SPARED SHAME OF
GOING TO PRISON
General sickels Only Technical
" Arrested-Kind Hearted
Sheriff Arranges Bond.

New. York. Jan. 28.-In order to
spare his old general, Daniel e. Sickels,
the humiliation Of arrest, Sheriff Har-
burger personally arranged with u
sel for the general to accept bail
from a surety company. This will OBJ
viate the necessity of locking General
sickels in the Ludlow street jail, pur-
suant to an order from the supreme
court issued after the old soldier had
failed to account for more than $780,
900 received from the New York mon
ument commission.
Under a flag canopy in his lower
Fifth avenue home, Maj. Gen. Daniel
e. Sickels, the hero of Gettysburg.
awaited today a climax in his affairs
which lave engaged public interest for
man. months. On the n hand, there
was said to be an ultimaturn from
his wife, from whom he has long been
estranged, presenting the conditions
aid, and or the other hand, there was
a court order for his civil arrest.
Friends are circulating a subscription
to make up the shortage.
Picturesque Character.
At the age of 81, General Sickels
is u picturesque character and APP
,peared especially so to many passers-
ny WHO saw ulIH ldSl HlSill SltllIl6 Wy
the windows of his big brick house
at the corner of Fifth venue and
Ninth street. The room was crowded
with many relics of the civil war.
Against the generals chair there was
leaning the crutch which he uses. On
s containing flowers. Above his
chair and some two feet over his head,
there were two American flags.
Career of SickcIs,
The order for General Sickles' arrest
came as a climax of a distinguished
n picturesque career. Born in New
York in 1925, of a wealthy family,
General Sickles served as a soldier,
legislator and diplomat. The guest of
honor for many years of gatherings of
civil war veterans. he was recently re-
fused admission to a local organization
OF civil war veterans on the ground
"of military unskillfulness and reck-
less sacrifice of the lives of his men,
Congress. which In 1897, awarded him
a medal of honor for bravery three
years ago, refused to grant him a
lieutenant generalship. In his old age,
financial troubles beset him. n after
another, and his wife, son and daugh-
ter became estranged from him.
Genera Sickels was a member of the
House of Representatives just before
the outbreak of the war and it was
in Washington that he shot and killed
Philip Barton Key, a United States
district attorney, for alleged attentions
to his first wife, the daughter Of ar
italian musician.
Veteran Warrior.
At the outbreak of the civil wal
General Sickels raised and equipped a.
his WI expense, five regiments o.
volunteers and as colonel of one O.
them went to the front He partici,
pated in most Of the great battles O.
the war, including Gettysburg, wher,
he lost a leg and achieved distinctio,
for bravery, rewarded by promotion t.
the rank of lieutenant general.
He served as minister to Spain
where he met and married his presen
wife. the daughter Of a Spanish coun
ctllor Of state. Shortly after his re
turn to this country with her, thu
couple separated and Mrs. Sickels wen
back to Spain. where she remained un
til 1906. Then she returned to New
York. There were frequent reports o
their, reconciliation and for a year o
more Mrs. Sickels lived in a house ad
Joining her husbands, but it neve
appeared that they were really recon
ciled.