Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1859 — Daniel E. Sickles and his Wife Reconciled. [ARTICLE]

Daniel E. Sickles and his Wife Reconciled.

A Dispatch to the Cincinnati Commercial, ! which we copy below, discloses the fact, vvhich has been suspected by some parties ; would ere long be revealed, that the murderer of Philip Ba't n Key has resumed ' marital relations with his wife. This new feature of the case exhibits another phase of “good society” at the National Capital, and shows th- t Sickles is entirely devoid of that virtue and high sense of honor which some of his admirers, who gloried in the tragedy of which he was the principal actor, have claimed for him. The dispatch is as follows: “New York, July 11. “The Hon. Daniel E. Sickles has sent ' letters to his most intimate friends, inlorm- ! ing them that lie he has resumed his marital ; relations with his wife. Tiie letters were I written yesterday and to-day. and in conse- ! quence of the discovery that m onths ago he I resumed the-relations in the most intimate j form. The story, for which we have ex- ; cellent authority, is this: j “Mrs. Sickles, during and since the triai, j has resided at her outraged husband’s coun- ! , try house, situated on Private avenue, lcnd- ! ing from Bloomingdale road, between Ei“h----i ty-fi th and Nintieth streets, and overlooking j the river. Thomas C. Field, the Public Administrator of the city, an intimate friend of Mr. Sickle , took a house abonr the Ist of June, which is three-quarters of a mile or so above Mr. Sickles’ villa, and on a private avenue leading from Bloomingdale road. I Mr. Fields had not been long in his new : quarters before his friend Daniel requested j the privilege of occupying a room there, j 1 which request was granted. “It. was, however, soon observed that Mr. ; S. was in the habit of leaving the house ! where he lodged, late at night and returning | early in the morning. How often im did i tills it is impossible to say. But at lengtii ! suspicion was aroused, and fixed in the right | Jii e.- tiun. A few mornings ag ) Mr. Field ! happened to be with Mr. Emmanuel B. 1 Hart, whom you remember as a fast and tearful friend of the homicide during the i trial; whom should they meet but Mr. Sick- | les on bis return from his morning walk, iTh \v asked him where ho had been, as j friends do. He fired up, an.l gave an answer ’ it: p ng that it was none of their business. i“But,” said Mr. Fields, “it is rgy business i: - you have . *en having clandestine intercourse I with a d.shonored wife, and living in mv j house the while, because it suits your marital convenience.” The upshot of the mat I ter was, Mr. Sickles in rim'd his friends , that that was to be done openly henceforth | which was done clandestinely. It is well I understood tint Mr. S. could never have i made aril a rn-e justi’ying a divorce, on the i groundjpf his wife’s adultery. But this news will surprise some persons.