The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-11
SENTENCE GROWS LARGER
One Hundred Days Added to
"A Emil Sage's Imprisonment.
MRS. SAGE TAKEN CARE OF
tEpworth League, With Commemorate
Promptness Extends a Helping
Hand to the Unfortunate
ia Woman.

Two hundred dollars or one hundred
days in Jail have been added to the for
mer sentence of 60 days in Jail which
was pronounced against Emil Sage by
/ Judge Fitzgerald. Sage is the human
vulture who attempted to force his wife
! into a life Of shame, as related in yes
.terday mornings Standard.
When County Attorney Duffy read
the story in the Standard yesterday
morning he came to the conclusion that
here was a case for investigation. And
he did investigate it with the result
that, yesterday afternoon, he filed a
complaint in Judge Boland's court
), against Sage charging him with dis
turbing the. peace Of Maggie Sage by
offensive conduct, the specific nature of
I which was the attempt to force her to
adopt life of shame. Sage had al
ready been sentenced on the previous
day by Judge Fitzgerald for vagrancy.
At the hearing, which took
place last evening in Judge b.
lands court, the poor woman
told her pitiful tale of misery again.
AS she told her story in simple, coun-
try-gilr fashion, passing from one re-
voting detail to another, the eyes of
the honest mensin the court room turn
ed now and then toward Sage, and the
glances were anything but kind and
sympathetic. The woman said she was
10 years of age and that her name
prior to her marriage with Sage, was
Maggie Kelly.
Sage made the same weak defense, if
such it might be called, that he did in
police court. His own testimony would
certainly be enough to convict him..
At the conclusion of the evidence, Mr.
r
victed and in the course of his remarks
he spoke in scathing terms of Sage. who
sat stolidy by, evincing neither interest
nor concern. The court, at the cOnclus-
ion of Mr. Duffys address, sentenced
Sage to a fine Of $780, the sentence to be-
gin at the expiration of the present 60
day sentence. If the 5000 is not paid
Sage will have to serve it out at the
rate of 81 per day. Thus he will re-
main in Jail 100 days, or nearly six
months.
81 Evidence was introduced last even
ing showing that Sage had been ar
rested in Anaconda a time or two be-
fore, and had once been given floater.
Had there been any attempt at defense,
it IS said that the state had witnesses to
prove that Sage once robbed a. man in
Butte.
= Mr.htDuffy said that he deplored the
fact that there was no law in this state
crimes. There is law in California
which makes the offense a felony. Some
of the attorneys who We're spoken to
about the case yesterday thought that a
charge of rape might be made to stick
against Sage, but that it would have to
be brought in Missoula county, where
the rape was committed, if such crime
was committed at ALL II is therefore
possible that Sage may have to deal
With the Missoula county authorities
after he gets through here.
Mrs. Sage was taken in charge yes
terday~b by. the EpWorth league. That
society will care for her until she can
procure work. She expressed an eager
ness to go to work if she can find en-
ployment. The Epworth league has GER
tainly done noble act in taking up the
case of the unfortunate young woman
and the association is to be highly COM
1nended for the promptness with which
the helping hand of Christian charity
was extended.