Remember I mentioned how the public was more forgiving of him murdering his wife's lover than of him forgiving his wife for the infidelity? When he confronted his wife, Teresa Bagioli Sickles about the affair, she denied it, but later recanted and even put her CONFESSION IN WRITING…..Good lord what was she thinking? My guess is, she only started the affair because her husband was way too busy with all his other women and had no time for her.
I ran across this tidbit while reading some of the excerpts from “Harper’s Weekly – Journal of Civilization”…they published the confession. Well no wonder the public hated her, can you imagine?? She died from tuberculosis in 1867.
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Yes, Sickles was busy. Busy being a first-term Congressman for an important NYC District, busy being the unofficisal liaison between the elderly bachelor President Buchanan and the US Congress because he previously served under Buchanan when he was Head of the US Legation to England, and busy earning a living with a private law practice that included desparate clients who hired him to oust the robber baron Jay Gould from his position as head of the railroad company he took over. And even with all of that, Sickles wasn't too busy to help a down-and-out lawyer named Philip Barton Key get a job as District Attorney for Washington, DC. ALl Sickles asked Key was to look in on his wife while he was busy. Sickles repaid him by renting a house in an undesireable part of town and taking Sickles' wife there for sex. So yes, Sickles did go ballastic after he heard rumors of the affairs, politely asked Key if there was anything to it and was told no, and then saw Key way a white hankerchef as a signal to his wife.
He was a character for sure.
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