A STRANGE. TRUE TALE
Romance and Tragedy of Gen
eral Sickles' Daughter's Life.
.IOW HER BEAITY FADED AWAY.
Haloed by Diaalpatton and EireiiM, tha
One Brilliant Touog Woman llea
Practically Frlendlra anil Alone So
cial Trlnmph Years Ago.
N FILE in the
iurrogitte'a office
of Brooklyn, aaya
tha New York
J World, Is it will
I which tells a story
of love, romance
and tragedy auch
as fiction seldom
equals. It bring
to memory events
of half a century ago tbat stirred society
and the nation. Womnn's frailty, wom
an's faithlessness, man's treachery and
man's revenge all are revealed lu Its two
brief pages. It tells of broken homes,
wrecked lives, and still above it all, like a
halo, shines the glory of distinction at
tained, of brave deeds done.
Laura B. Sickles at one time could have
claimed the hand of the bravest and best
in America or Europe. Daughter of a
man of distinction, wealth and power,
there was nothing the future uiluht not
have brought to her. While still In her
teens she reigned with a queenly sway at
the court of Madrid. Cavaliers with the
bines blood of old Castile bowed before
her. The horizon of ber life was roseate
tinted, but somewhere afnr off was a dark
peck, a menacing blot upon her heritage.
Laura Sickles was not a sirl one would
call beautiful, though her mother was
gifted with radiant charms of feature and
person. Her father, too, the famous Gen
eral Daniel E. Sickles, was and still is a
splendid specimen of physical manhood.
His seventy years are carried with a dig
nity, a majesty even, from which his
crutches cannot detract.
It was away back in 1S53 that Dnuiel
E. Sickles, then in his thirty-lint year and
corporation attorney for New York city,
was married to Teresa Bagioli. She was
only seventeen and the daughter of A.
Bagioli, an Italian music teacher of New
York. Beautiful as a dream of an Italian
morning was the bride of the rising young
lawyer politician. She was accomplished
as well, a brilliant conversationist in sev
eral languages and in every way fitted to
grace the home her talented husband gave
her.
The young lawyer met her when he was
studying Italian under Lorenzo Daponte,
the librettist of Verdi's most celebrated
opera. The elder Sickles, one of the rich
est men of New York In those days, had
carefully educated his son, but the youth
was self willed and there had been a quar
rel. The son could get along without his
father, and the old gentleman was pleased
at his rapid advancement. The beautiful
Teresa was self willed also. Her busy
father could not devote much time to her
moral education, and left to herself she
grew to womanhood full of the choicest of
feminine physical charms, but deficient in
those beauties of soul which elevate woman
above the sphere of ordinary humanity.
James Buchanan, already a power in the
politic of New York, was sent to London
as minister from the United States. His
political acumen aad knowledge of men
led him to accept young Sickles as secre
tary of legation. In London Mrs. Sickles
was the rage. She was presented to the
queen, and at many of the great social
functions in the English capital and at the
country houses of the aristocracy she was
the observed of all observers.
It was while her father was in London
in 1854 that Laura was born at the old
Sickles homestead in Bloomlngdale. Lau ra
Bagioli Sickles she was christened. The
next year the handsome secretary of lega
tion returned to this country to help elect
James Buchanan president of the United
State. At the same election he was chosen
as a state senator, and the next year he
was sent to congress from New York. He
mad his home on Lafayette square, then
on of the most fashionable sections of the
capital. Husband and wife were petted
member of Washington's best society.
Among the chosen friends of both was
handsome Philip Barton Key, son of Fran
cis Scott Key, the author of "Tho Star
Spangled Banner." Key escorted Mrs.
Sickles to the opera, and was a devoted ad
mirer and attendant of hers at the recep
tion at the White House and the lega
tions. Mrs. Grundy began to whisper, and
finally things were told Mr. Sickles.
It wa on Feb. 27, 1959, tbat Congress
man Sickles killed Key, then the United
State attorney for the District of Colum
bia. He had two Derringers on his person
and a five shot revolver. Mrs. Sickles had
previously confessed herein to her hus
band in writing. Sickles walked up to
Key, told him to prepare to die for dishon
oring him and put three bullets into thu
body of his erstwhila friend.
CENF.TUL DANIEL E. B1CKLK.
The trial Is a matter of history. It lasted
twenty days, and among the lawyers for
the defense were Kdwin M. Stantou, after
ward Lincoln's secretary of war; Guiiernl
Thomas Francis Meagher, James A.
Brady, John Graham and other lawyers
of national reputution. Sickles was ac
quitted. His wife, whom be had sent tack
to Urr father, was almost heartbroken.
Public- sentiment was with Mr. (Sickles,
tout before long there was a revulsion. In
obedience to the pleadings of his little
daughter Laura aud his own love he took
his beautiful wife again to Lis arms. It
wa not for loug, though, uud she soon died
of a broken heart, shunued by her former
' admirers and friends.
Then came the wur, when President
Llncolu nominated Sickle as brigadier
general In 18(11, aud after he had been re
elected to congress from the Third district
of New York and had raised the Excelsior
brigade. How he gained distinction at
Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill
and finally Gettysburg; how he rose in
rank aud was retired as a major general
are matters of history.
Littlu I,ura had been growing apace,
and when the general was appointed min
ister to Spain by President Grant she was
fifteen years old. Shu went with him to
Madrid, and there learned what It was to
receive the homage of nobles aud princes.
In her train at Madrid was a handsome
young cavalier who, though not wealthy,
could trace his ancestry to the bluest
blooded hidalgos of Catile and Arragon.
She loved him. The courtship went on
until the general com-luded that the young
Spaniard was after his daughter's money
and broke off the engagement. About the
same time he took to himself a young
Spanish wife.
Latir.t refused to submit. Imperious as
her father, and scorning the mediation of
her stepmother, she came back to the
United States. The quarrel that took
place in the American minister's house at
Madrid was never healed. Father aud
daughter never saw each othor again.
Iaura came to New York and went to
live with her grandmother, Mme. Bagioli,
In Fifty-second street. At her grand
father's death she Itecame possessed of
about fJO.OOO, well Invested In real estate.
The general reslgnod bis post in Madrid
and returned to this country in 1373.
Laura's heritage of stubbornness began to
manifest itself. She left her grandmoth
er's roof to plunge Into the sea of dissipa
tion and self indulgence. Her name was
linked with that of John Bloodgood, then
with that of a Mr. Hughes and then with
others by the score. Untrammeled by so
cial connections, reckless of her own aud
her family's name, she became the extrav
agant queen of the wildest set In New
York. At one time she was known as Mrs.
Carlton and lived at Morello's. Her fa
vors were dispensed with a generoas hand,
but she exacted a devotion and a subser
vience to her will that resulted in frequent
ruptures.
There was nothing mercenary about this
butterfly of the gilded purlieus. Of a
hardy race, stroug and supple limbed, she
bade fair to withstand the Immense tax
she put upon her endurance. But the pace
was too rapid even for her. The attract
iveness which brought to her feet the ac
complished youths and wealthy bankers
and merchants began to disappear. The
splendid figure of which a Hebe or a Juno
would have been proud began to take on
flesh. The lines of beauty disappeared first
into embonpoint and at the last were total
ly obliterated in gross obesity.
From champagiie and the costliest wine
that private and public cellars could afford
she turned to gin and whisky. The girl
who had graced the receptions at the court
of bpain, whom princes and princesses had
caressed, was now the Circe of back rooms
in New York and Brooklyn groggertes.
She still had her followers, though. Her
income purchased what grace aud charm
had once commanded.
She moved over to Brooklyn four years
ago, spending ber time in recuperating
from the ejects of debauches, in which her
intervals of strength would permit her to
Indulge. Her grandmother, to whom she
returned for awhile, wus then living at
Croton Falls. But Laura could not remain
in such a secluded, lifeless spot. She took
up her home in Brooklyn at 11 Debevoise
place, the bouse of George W. Cook. Mr.
Cook is a clerk in the New York postofflce
and is a brother of Mme. Bagioli, Laura
Sickles' grandmother. Laura rented a suite
of room from the Cook and furnished
tbcm herself. Sho had a maid to whom
she paid sixteen dollars a month, but al
lowed her to remain most of the time with
Mme. Bagioli.
General Sickles often heard of his way
ward daughter and through intermediaries
tried to reclaim her, but all bis efforts
failed. The rancor born In her breast at
tbe breaking off of the engagement in
Madrid hod intensified in the years of their
separation, and her pride was too great to
permit her to crawl to his feet in her deg
radation. Ail of the last year she lived with the
Cooks, but lately her life had been lonely
indeed. Mr. Cook quarreled with his wife,
and sho and her children moved away.
Then a colored servant attended to the
wants of Laura, Now and then she would
have supper in bur room, as in the old
times, and the glasses would clink, and
with merry Jest and song heartaches and
regrets were driven to the oblivion tbat
stupefaction brings. But 1-aura could still
talk of the old halcyon days of her belle
dom. If she had any regrets, any griefs,
she never showed them.
She had drunk the cup of pleasure to its
dregs, she frequently said, and solace was
found in drink alone. Many and many a
time, in the excitation of tbe hours she
passed with the few of ber acquaintances
in ber rooms at 11 Debevoise place, her
memory would recall the verses she used
to love when a brilliant girl, with a mind
stored with the beauties of the poets.
So passed tbe last days of Laura Bagioli
Sickles.
In a home that had been broken up since
her entrance into it by tho separation of
husband and wife sho fell ill and died.
The Cooks did not separate because of her.
It was because of the entrance of another
and a stranger.
Was It fatuf
Among the last attendants upon Laura
was a youug woman living in Brooklyn,
who had gone to school with her. Only
three weeks before death came Itura re
ceived a remittance of a little over Jl, 000,
ber quarterly income from ber grand
father's bequest. She taught new furni
ture, odds and ends of household orna
ments and costly lingerie. She never en
Joyed any of it.
She was thirty-eight years old when she
died. She made her will on March U4,
1SU1. It was filed in the surrogate's office
of Brooklyn on June 1, but has not yet
been admitted to probate. Application
for probate will be mude soon, and it is
possible there may be a contest. Tbe (loo
ument Is only two pages long.
In it she provides for the payment of her
funeral expenses and fi r a monument to
cost $300 to be placed over the graves of her
self and mother. She directs that she bu
burled in Greenwood by the side of her
mother. All her furr.iture aud bric-a-brac
she devises to Lizzie J. Cook, wife of
George W, Cook. Her fortune, which had
dwindled to something like f.'O.WJO, was
then divided thus:
One-third to Lizzie J. Cook, one-third to
Lauru Sickles Clark and one-third to Kllzu
C. Bagioli for life, and after her death the
principal to go to Fred Walker, son of
James K. and Carrie Walker. Laura
Sickles Cook is thelliirteeu-year-old daugh
ter of Mrs. Lizzie J. Cook, and Fred Walker
Is Mrs. Cook's grandson, Mrs. Cook Is np-
foiuted under the will us the guurdiun of
.aura .Sickles Cook and Fred Walker, and
is made executrix with Edward Bailey, of
Patchugue, L. 1. Neither Is to give bonds.
At her death General Sickles scut flowers,
and they are still on ber gruve and thut of
ber mother in Greenwood. The generul
did not uttcud the funeral, however, and
only the Cooks and tbe young lady who
had attended her in ber last Illness were
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