The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-07-20
RUSSELL SAGE DENIESIT ALL.
MRS. kBEGkH's STORY PRONOUNCED
A PURE INTENTION.

| Her Bemnnd Tor 100000 damages for Al
| legged Breach or Promise OF Marriage
| Made Twenty Ave Years Ano-afr, ssge'-
Lawyer Says She II Merely . Tool.
| According to Lawyer Henry 8. bennett Of As
Broadway. Mr.. Russell Sage denies "colleo-
lively. severnlly. and specifically" every charge
| brought against him by Mrs. Della Keegan,
| who has Just begun suit against the flnancier
| to recover SlO0.00O damages for alleged
breach OF promise OF marriage. Mr. Sage him
| self declined to speak OF the case yesterday,
but Mr.. bennett Acknowledged that the action
| had been brought and characterized the
| charge as a pure invention on the part OF tho
plaintiff for the purpose OF obtaining money.
Mrs. Keegan formerly lived at 435 West
Thirty ninth street. but her whereabouts now
lie unknown except to her counsel Mr.. ]. Bap.
list Marshall. who Gays he will produce her
In the Court OF Common Pleas next Monday
morning. whom he will argue q motion to
vacate IN order granting tho defendant an
extension OF time In which to flo an amended
answer
Mrs Keegan's story. as told In her COM
plant and in her bill Of particulars. ID to the
effect that she and Mr.. Sago wero intimate for
fourteen years, beginning IN 1868 At the
beginning of their acquaintance Mr.. Sage
was widowor, and was living at COS
Filth avenue. Mrs. Keegnn was employed
frequently to the house. She swears Mr.. Sage
made promises which she looked upon az as.
surances OF marriage. In. tho fall OF 1868 OF
1868. Mrs. Keegan says. Mr.. Sage paid her
fare In the steerago to Ireland. where she went
to the homo Of her brother. William KeeGan,
ut Kingstown. near Dublin. Here. she sserts. q
male child was born TO her on an /. 1859 or1S70.
under the name OF Joseph Christopher Sage.
fig; but she says, her sister. Elsp ksesan.Was
sei6ed on the register q oh Church. n was In
Four NJ onths later Mrs. KeeGnn says she re-
OF Mr. sage. documentary evidence OF, which
t hnv s 81 says enc can produce she Ie!t her
fore it was n year old. She Continues sin IN her
pm OF pa ticulars by swearing that on her re-
WEIR 81 sasc e %o in o RsT ee a
I mother: Mr sage she deSIale gave her med
TIE. effect Of these medicines not being rapid.
Nine. Rssteil Mrs Reagan AYERS t that Mr. Mr.
Sage told her to go in and tell Nine: Restell
what the trouble was. and to pay her sly say.
afford to pay, my more. Mr. Sage Is alleged
to have waited outside the house. No second
The n,ll epls by stating that the intimacy
ported herself by performing domestic work.
and in 1882 she sought employment in the
Lawyer Bennett. for Mr. sage, said yester- |
day that hrs Reagan is woman OF low char;
actor. who has frequently been arrested. and |
who has spent many, month his on Blackwell's |
Island sl He considered her. however. a harm
Into the hands Of unscrupulous persons. In |
t tset M Mr saEe in az adaX, on which is based
said BAPTIST Marshall Mrs. keegan' q COUNSEL |
sods out nS he Asesan n y an
t TaSn 1hs nsG based while she was par
NAMED silent until the case, came into
s sSs, Russell Hs, Sage to SSs sra$s Air. Ssr:
hsI iSS"Rhs has an ada1t izsm AZ
notary public before whom the eomplaint was
on Blackwelrs Island was the Charity Hos
a,sndan"e M %arsRaI a. "ads s that he aH.s
Is s d TO r mkt his
When asked why Mrs. Eecgan had waited
twentty-threH years before bringing suit. Law.
q creating a seandniit SO could obtain re-:
emit times. but his dona lions averaged about
81 month. which she found to DO not sum-
Mrs. Reagan was thrown from a Broadway
car. She sued the com pany for damages hut
the case fingered so long in the courts that
she finally asked her lnwvor to Secure Mr.
Sage's aii In getting the matter settled. She
mus It was. Lawyer Marshall says. that he
learned her story. The lawyer went to Mr..
nE. the street car, case settled bya payment
II $3.50 10 Mira Keegan. Mrs. Keegan was
never married She calls herself Mrs. Eeegan,
'he says. because she doesn't like to call her.
self Miss.