The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1913-01-30
SPARED SHAME OF
GOING TO PRISON
General Sickels Only Technical
" Arrested--Kind Hearted
Sheriff Arranges Bond.

New York, jan. 2S.--In order to
spare his old general, Daniel e. Sickels,
the humiliation of arrest, Sheriff Har-
burger personally arranged with u
sci for the general to accept ball
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 A.
Under a flag canopy in his lower
Fifth ven home, Maj, Gen. Daniel
r.. Sickels, the hero OF Gettysburg,
awaited today a climax in his affairs
which have engaged public interest for
many months. On the n hand, there
was said to be an ultimatum from
his wife, from whom he has long been
estranged, presenting the conditions
under which she would return to his
aid, and on the other hand, there was
a court order for his civil arrest.
Friends are circulating n subscription
to make UP the shortage.
Picturesque Character.
AT the age of 81, General Sickels
is u picturesque character and ap-
RSOAAS ~ AeAA ~NNS~
by who saw him last night sitting by
the windows OF his big brick house
at the DIT Of Fifth e and
Ninth street. The room was crowded
with many relics of the civil war.
Against the generals chair there was
leaning the Acrutch which he uses. On
a little table near him was a large
vase containing flowers. Above his
chair and some two feet over his head,
there were two American flags.
Career Of SickeIs. H..
The order for General Sickles' arrest
came as q climax of a distinguished
and picturesque career. Born In New
York in 1926, of a wealthy family,
General Sickles served as a soldier,
legislator and diplomat. The guest of
honor for many years or gatherings OF
civil war veterans, he was recently re-
fused admission to a local organization
of civil wal 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 g~eneralship. In his old age,
financial troubles beset nim, one after
another, and his wife, son and daugh-
ter became e~stranged from him.
General Sickels was a member of the
House Of Representatives Just before
ILO OulOISb&h VI THE wal anu II was
in Washington nat he shot and killed
Philip Barton Key, a United States
district attorney. for alleged attentions
to his first wife, the daughter Of an
italian musician.
Veteran Warrior.
At the outbreak of the civil war
General Sickels raised and equipped at
his own expense five regiments Of
volunteers n as colonel of one OF
them went to the front. He partici-
pated in most of the great battles of
the war, including Gettysburg, where
he lost Il leg and achieved distinction
for bravery, rewarded by promotion to
the rank of lieutenant general.
He served as minister to Spain,
where he met and married his present
wife. the daughter of a Spanish coun-
cillor of state. Shortly after his re-
turn to this country with her. the
couple separated and Mrs. SickeIs went
back to Spain. where she remained I'M
til 1906. Then she returned to New
York. There were frequent reports OF
their reconciliation and for a year or
more Mrs. Sickels lived in a house ad-
joining her husbands, but it never
appeared that they were really recon,
ciled.