Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-02-28
AS SAVAGE AS HIS NAME.
She Shall Never Live With Another
Man, No, Never.
And He'll Spoil Her Books if v;tr;o,
Will Do it.

tSl Louis Republican
Mondays Republican contained !.
article giving the details of the roma ~,
TIC marriage ola professional burglar
now serving a sentence in the Work
mouse IN this city, to n former bella az
Detroit, Michigan, and the successn,l
divorce proceedings which the woman
instituted in Omaha. The man's
name is William Savage, alias Kelly.
ana he has served terms both In Mich.
gan ana Missouri penitcntiaries. In
tne petition for divorce the plaintiff,
Mrs. Annie l.. Savage, states
that in 1876, when she was only
sixteen years old, she met Savage
on the street and began flirting with
him.. He spoke to her and made an
appointment for the mex: day. She
admired the reckless hravado with
which he spoke of men snd things and
discovering that her parents were
wealthy and occupied a good social
position, he proposed marriage. She
was reluctant, but he persisted and the
couple were married. Three DAYS
afterwards he was arrested for burgla-
ry and larceny and put in Jail where
he remained until sentenced to two
years in the Jackson pen The true
characterof the man she married was
then shown to the woman and she was
Immediately taken in charge by her
relatives and never saw him but once
since. The article in the Republican
was called to the attention of Savage,
who is working in the tailor shop at
the Workhouse, and to fellow-pris-
oner he gave the following version of
the hasty marriage, and the blight and
ruin 1T has caused
Il met her just as she says, and mar
ried her on the eth of June, 1876. She
is lying when she says she did not
know what | was, because she did,
and ] often gave her stuff to put
away. We lived together from the
18th until the Goth, when / was
'pinched' and afterwards settled for
two Stretches From the time of the
marriage until / fell | did good
deal of night work, and gave her a
large amount of jewelry in presents.
She wanted me to square it, but L
couldn't make enough to support us
in good style unless turned u trick
now and then. Once / came into the
room when "a couple of 'fiys' were
after me, and she
TOOK MY GUNS AWAY
And put me in back room, and then
gave the cops beautiful song dur
ing which | forced a rear window and
'lammed' She is playing the limo
cent dodge now, but there is no use in
her denying that she did not know my
racket True. she was almost heart
broken when she dropped that | was
crooked. She asked me If / could be
come good man, and told her that
| could If she would marry me. She
married me, hoping that l would
square it, but it seems that couldn't
be weaned from the old ways, and
after a few days honeymoon |
started out and ratified couple oil
houses and the flats were instantly
on the alert. | wouldn't have
been 'pinched' only for her. / stop
ped around town until the police got
on to me, and the first thing / knew
they had me dead to rights.
II wonder if she remembers the
night she and and another high-toned
lady met another night worker and
myself ia park in Detroit and how
we talked over matters there together!
| didn't hear from her while | was in
Jackson, but after being released ]
called on her Ind she put her arms
around my waist and took two guns
away from me. She then told me that
| was the worst kind of man and
would not reform and that she
wouldn't have anything more to dc
with me. She said she was going
to take the advice of her relatives and
shake me. In fact | don't believe
they knew that we met SO she skipped
out and / tell you i was hot ] de-
termined to make her come to time
and followed her My stuff gave out
and one night | was 'collared' in a
hotel while working rooms and sent to
the Detroit workhouse for six months.
When | was released couldn't find
her and | came here and was settled
She shan't live with another man fol
will spoil her good looks
II vITRIoL WILL DO IT.
don't care for her divorce. She
says | never gave her cent to live on
In fact / gave her every cent that
big tricks She was eighteen years
ried. and have the marriage certiii,
cate among my papers"
Savage is about 50 years of age, i
tail ana sim, Will EotiliuS Nciy ati
tractive about his personal appearance
Two years ago he was sent up to JEFF
ferson City by Detective Lawler anc
Desmond ora the change of grand lar
ceny, and was only recently released
He informed one ofhis fellow prison
ers at the workhouse that after ebeinl
released from the ''pen,n he did somf
1 big work on Washington and Frank
/ lin avenues. He was arrested the las
/ time for working rooms in an Olivi
street boarding. house and was sen
fenced from the criminal court for sit
months. He expects by good behaviG
70 get out on three-fourth time AMI