Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1912 — SICKLES’ HOME SAVED [ARTICLE]

SICKLES’ HOME SAVED

ESTRANGED WIFE COMES TO OLD VETERAN'S AID. Woman Weep* a* She Pawn* Her Jewel* for *B,OOO to A»«i*t Her Husband. New York, Sept. 18.—The threatened loss of his priceless collection of objects of art and rare tones, which ha* hung like a pall over the head of u»en. Daniel E. Sickles, diplomatist, the veteran of several wars, and which, hi* friends assert, is the real reason the old warrior refused to permit the use of his name as a candidate tor the office of commander-in-chief before his comrades now in session at Los Angeles, has been averted. The general’s wife, from whom he ha* been estranged for the past 27 Fear*, took her jewelry from a safety vault down town and passed it over the counter in a pawnbroker’s shop to satisfy the judgment against the old soldier. She wept bitterly as the gems—snough to total more than SB,OOO were passed over to the money lender. "I have done jt for him,” she said between sobs. The money in her possession, the judgment was satisfied within a half hour and uptown, in the neighborhood where the distinguished veteran and his handsome wife have sustained separate establishments, there aer whispering* of a reconciliation, but on the subject everybody is dumb. f