The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-05
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MRS, SAGE A FREE WOMAN
Court Sewers the Ties That Bind
Her to an Unnatural Husband.
WILL GO TO HER PARENTS
Unfortunate Young Woman Finds Re-
lief at the Hands of the Court.
Tho Husband Is Still
in Jail.
WILL GO TO HER PARENTS

Yesterday in the district court was
case of Mrs. Maggie Sage VS.. Emil Sage
After hearing the woman's story, the de-
cree of divorce was granted by the court
and Mrs Sage is once more free to go her
own way.
The divorce proceedings of Mrs. Sage
against her husband is another chapter
i'll a story in which the general public
has taken considerable interest Mrs
Sage was the wife of Emil Sage, who is
now in Jail serving out days sem
tence-6o days for vagrancy and 100 days
for disturbing the peace. Emil Sage and
Maggie Kelly, which was the name of
Mrs. Sage before her marriage. were msr-
ried at Stevensvile on Dec. 10, 1898. Two
or three days after the marriage the cou-
pie went to Missoula. On the railroad
train Sage represented to his wife that
he had secured a furnished house in Mis-
scuba for a reasonable rental. Upon their
arrival there Sage took his wife to Il
house of ill-fame, the rental for which
Mrs. Sage learned was $40 per week. The
Wcman stayed in the house only one night
after which she returned to d lodging
house, where Sage lived. She told Sage
that under no circumstances would she
live in such house. Sage's next move
toward the ruination of his wife was
when he brought her to Anaconda on rail-
road tickets furnished by Heck Mclean,
a notorious saloon keeper of the Northern
addition. The couple arrived here at
o'clock in the morning and Sage at once
took his wife to one Of the shacks in the
Northern addition under the misrepresen-
tation that he was taking her to a hotel
The next day Sage was arrested. He
was charged with vagrancy and Judge
Fitzgerald sent him up for 60 days. The
next day after the sentence imposed by
Judge Fitzgerald County Attorney Duffy
began an action against him for disturb
ing the peace. This action was brought
IN Judge Boland's court and Sage was
fined 5000. In each instance Sage put up
the defense that his wife had willingly
consented to adopt life of shame in or
der that she might assist MIN in starting
a cigar store.
The details of the case were so revolving
that their publication was out of the
question. but enough was said in the
newspapers at the time to arouse the in
dgnation of the citizens against Sage and
to create great deal of sympathy for
the unfortunate woman.
f. f. Lyman, on behalf of the Epworth
League of the M. E. church, found
place for her to earn honest living.
After that Rev. Mr.. Custer pastor of the
M. e. church. became interested in the
case, and by corresponding with her par
ents at Stevensville and investigating the
case. more fully, came to the conclusion
that the best method would be for her to
sue for a divorce at once and remain in
Anaconda until it could be secured. He
engaged the services of Attorney Rodgers
and Simpson for this purpose and found
a place for Mrs. Sage in a Christian fam
lily until the divorce should be granted.
Mrs. Sage, who is only 10 years old, will
return to the home of her parents at
Stevensville either to-day or tomorrow.