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Show 1 1 GEN. SHEGKLES I WON'T GO I T0 JAIL B ; Sheriff Hamburger Himself Arranged B With Counsel For General To H ' Secure Ball m . H Now York, J tin. 27. In order to H spare his old friend, Dnnlel K. Sic- H klce, tho humiliation of arrest, Shcr H if! Hamburger himself personally nr- H ranged with counsol for tho general H ' to securo ball from a surety com- H , pnny. This will obviate tho necca- H slty of locking Gen. Sickles In tho H 'I Ludlow street Jail, pursuant to an or- H der from tho supremo court Issued H after tho old soldier had failed to H , account for more than $20,000 re- B commission. H , eelved for tho Now York Monument's H Under a Flag Canopy H Under u Hag canopy In his lower H fifth nvcnuo home, MaJ. Gen. Daniel H E. Sickles, tho hero of Gettysburg, H awaited today a climax In his affairs H -which Imvo engaged public interest H for many months. On tho ono hand H thero was said to bo an ultimatum H from his wife, from whom ho has H long been estranged, presenting tho H conditions under which sho -would H return to his nld, and on tho other H hand, thero was a court order for his H civil arrest in connection with his H alleged appropriation, to his own uso H of 123,476 from tho funds of stato H monuments commission, of which ho H was chairman. H Tho warrant was in the hands of H Sheriff Julius Hamburger a personal H friend of tho aged general, who ex- H pressed his chagrin that duty called H upon him to act. H "Hut ho won't know that he 1b in H jail," said tho sheriff, "for I shall H see that ho has all tho comforts of H homo." In tho meantlmo other H friends of tho gencrnl wero heading H a subscription list to meet his debt, H or to provide, tho 30,000 bond which H would saw - from tho humiliation H of Imprisonment. H A Picturesque Character H At tho ago of 87, Gen. Sickles Is H a picturesque character and appear- H ed especially so to many passers by H i -who saw him last night sitting at B tbo windows of his big brick house H at tho corner of Fifth nvenue and M r. Ninth street. Tho room wbb crowded M s with many relics of tho Civil wnr. H ' AgalnBt tho general's chair thero H was leaning the crutch which he uses J Ho lost ono leg in tho battle of Get- H tyBburg. On a little tabic near him M was a large vaso containing (lowers. m Above his chair and some two feet M over his head thero were two Amorl- M can flags. |