WAR HERO'S WIFE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 34, 30 June 1914, Page 6

WAR HERO'S WIFE.

HOW AX 'KRIUN'Ci Vi OJ.TAN WAS TAKEN BACK.

VARIED AMD ROMANTIC CAREER.

The death is announced from, Xcw York of Mnjor-Oenerai Daniel Edgar Sickles, aged eighty-eight, a hero of the' American Civil War, who had a varied ar.,l romantic caiccr.

In lS.j:! he Married a beautiful Italian girl, seventeen years of age, who had ;i great isocial triumph in 'London. When lie returned to Washington and entered .Congress his house bccani"

famous for its hospitality. Then came or, tlid .-.cone Philip Jiartoti Key, son of llie compo-er of the 'Star -Spangled ihinner." Tall and handsome, lie was a gr-at "'ladies' man" who boaj-ti"d of his "conquests." .Mrs Sickles was one of l!:em. An nionymous letter told hei liii-bamj everything. lie found Kev making signal* out-ide his house, II"

.-hot and kilhd him in the 'street, lirought to trial, he was found' not guilty, a verdict whioh was greeted with tumulto'i-s applau-ic iu Court.

■Soon after the trial he took back hi.-' v. ife and reinstated her in his home. In reply to a storm of criticism! lie ffiid, "i am not aware (if any statute or code of morals which makes it infamous to .'••rgivc a woman. If 1 ever failed to comprehend tli-i utterly desolate position of an offending though penitent woman the .hopeless future, with its daiik possibilities of danger, to which she is ■;i-fi.'lied when prescribed ?•; nn out--::-'- -

I can now '-ee plainly enough in the almost universal howl of denunciation with, which she is foflowad to my th'resh!:o!d, the misery nvd peril from, which 1 ii'Ve, rescued the niollu-i' of my child." I'.roken-hearted. Mrs. Sickle's died « lew years later. Her husband lived to U' ome famous. Ife lought in man ,' laities in the Civil War, and was a warded the Congressional medal of lienor "tor most ihstingiuslKd gallantry in action at Gettysburg, July 2. ISiK, -ii-.plavcd on the .field of buttle before

i.e..! after the .loss of his leg." Afterwards Ibe married again and. nr!d various posts in the Diplomatic S.-rvice.