St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-29
MINNEAPOLISMEN
A Deaf and Dumb Man From Winona
Raises Lively Sunday Rumpu
About His Wife.
An American Section of the Sooialistic
Party 0rganizsd--GOv. Pierce as
DOdger.
Bridging the Hastings q Dakota Rail-
road Tracks--Realty shows .
Very Healthy Tone.
A Lot of Miscellaneous Notes and
Gossip of More Than Ordinary
interest.

Sounds of struggle and womans
voice crying police" yesterday morning
about o'clock drew crowd to the second
floor of $50 Nicollet avenue. The woman
proved to be Mrs. A. L.. Gage, who rents
rooms in the block, and the actors in the
combat proved to be E. II. Gage. her hus-
band, and ''Budd" Guion, a gambler, who
was attired only in night shirt Inc
faces of both men were severely
bruised and were covered with
blood. The patrol wagon was sum-
moned and the trio were conveyed 10
the central station and incarcerated upon
the charge of diserderly conduct. Inc ac-
counts of the affair as given by the inter-
eSted parties differ materially. but IL ap-
pears at any rate that Guion occupied room
5. which he rented from Mrs. Gage
Last Thursday. according to GuiOn's state
ment, deaf and dumb man called at his
room and communicated the fact that he
was Mrs. Cages husband. The lady was
absent at the time and the stranger went
aWay, Yesterday morning, GuiOn says,
some one raped on his door and he got out
Of bed and admitted the deaf and dumb
man, who Immediately struck him. A hot
fight followed, in the middle Of which Mrs.
Gage appeared upon the scene and called the
police. This statement is cOTrOboTated by
Mrs. Gage,
WHO SAYS IN ADDITION:
The deaf and dumb man is my husband, E.
q. Gaze of Winona. l LETT him three years
Ago. and have virtually secured divorce
from dim, although judgment mas never been
entered up. We were married fourteen years
Igo and have two sons. He was cruel to me
at times, and was no companion, so left him.
He has tried to persuade me to return. He
aas been in town since Thursday, and found
1im fighting with Mr.. Guion. Both had hold
Of a revolver. and l called The police.
Gage was seen in the lock up and readily
answered the quest Ons put to him by
writing answers on slips of paper. He said
he found GuiOn in bed with his wife, and
that the latter Immediately pulled out
revolver and struck him over the head with
it. They then fought for the possession OF
the weapon until he got it away, when
Guion ran out of the room. He said IN adj
ditiOn:
THE woman is my wife, who left me two
gears ago. She WAS tempted away D. man
who gave her 500. ] am foreman at the
WinOna Lumber company's saw mills, and
came to the city to persuade my wife TO re-
turn
GuiOn and Mrs. Gage deny positively that
they were in bed together, or that they
were at all intimate i'll their re. ationS.
GuiOn is gambler vino came to MinneapO-
lis two weeks ago from Chicago. He is of
medium stature, wears closely cropped
bead and dresses styiishly. Mrs. Gage is
apparently 35 years old and is not particu-
larry prepossessing in appearance. Her
husband has a John A. Logan muStache.
and geSticulated wildly when he undertook
to describe how the fight took place. He
has been deaf and dumb from birth, and is
dressed like man in prosperous circum-
stances.