Check, 6.5 x 2.75, filled out in another hand and signed by Roosevelt, payable to Major General D. E. Sickles for $50.00, May 15, 1911. Check is endorsed on the reverse, “D. E. Sickles, Maj. General,” and also bears a stamp “General Joe Wheeler Bust Committee.” Sickles was an Army officer who shot and killed Philip Barton Key, son of Francis Scott Key, because of Key’s attentions to Mrs. Sickles. He was tried and acquitted on the grounds of a then-novel plea of a temporary mental aberration; he later became a Union general and lost a leg in defense of the famous Gettysburg Peach Tree salient. In fine condition, with cancellation holes to body, lightly affecting Sickles endorsement, and slight show through from stamps on reverse, not affecting clean Roosevelt signature. COA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
