The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-10
FRANKLIN H. SAGE HOME
HE IS 4 NATIVE OF NEW HA-
 VEN.

V KJNs
 He Tells How He Escaped From Illinois
 Asylum--Win Become Inmate of Ma
 sonic Home.
 Franklin H. Sage, a former resident of Hartford, who was born in New Ha- ven and studied at Yale law school, and who escaped from the insane asylum at Elgin, III, a month ago, arrived in Hartford Wednesday bent, crippled with rheumatism, and half blind. His cloth ing looked worn and old. Yesterdays Hartford Times says:
 MT. Sage called on a number of friends, including H. 0. Case, grand secretary of the Knights of Pythias; Dr. Davison of Pratt street, and several veteran firemen, of which organization he belongs. He also went to J. H. Thatcher of the G. A. R. for Grand Army badge to wear on the lapel of his coat.
 MT Sage was at one time engineer of engine No and last evening he called at fire headauarters, He did not recognize any of the young men there, and sadly sought comfortable Morris chair to rest awhile. He uses crutches. A Times reporter saw him again on Main street this afternoon, Asked as to what he intended doing he said that the veteran firemen and some of his Masonic friends had agreed to look aft CT him. He said that he believed that in a week or so he would be sent to the Masonic home.
 He told the reporter how he escaped from the asylum. During a ball game he sat near a small grove, and while the guard was interested in the game he sneaked through the woods and went westward. He knew that just as soon as his absence was noticed guards | would be sent northerly and southerly to prevent his escape across the river which he would have to cross some where, in order to get away. Conse- | quently, he said, he fooled them by walking directly west. and crossed tht river at a point about fifty miles below the institution, where he came to tht l Illinois railroad, He travelled along the tracks to Chicago, a distance of eighty miles.
 | In Chicago, MT. Sage says he met al | old friend named Donaldson, who gavt him money to pay his fare from 'ther' l to Hartford. MT. Sage made severa attempts to escape while an inmate o the asylum at Elgin. On one occasion he was caught in Chicago after he hat been at liberty for ten days or tW weeks He was taken back, where h remained under close watch of guard for some time when he again eludet them, and this time he was captured fl Indiana.
 Speaking about his life MT Sag said he was born in New Haven an came to Hartford to live at the close 0 the civil war. He took a short cours of law at Yale, graduating in 1872, Il says. He practieed law about fou years in this city, having an office a 167 Asylum street. He later went | Stafford Springs and remained ther four years. He also graduated fro1
 Stevens college, Hoboken, N. J., ( that,time the only mining and mechan icnal egineering college in the countr.
 Regarding his ailment MT, Sage sai
 that at the battle of Fort Fisher, Jan ary 5, 1865, he was wounded in ti head by a piece of shell, his skull bein
 fractured which, he says, indirectly at counted for the privation and sufferin , which he had been forced to endure {
 Elgin for over five. years. In 1889, b' f cause of failing eyesigh, Mir. Sage gay
 up his law pracice and wen back
 mining engineering, which work, I
 says, he followed until he was sent i Elgin by the courts in Chicago in 1901 : MT, Sage said the trouble with h : head is caused by two tumors, whic e when he is exposed to the hot sun for : considerable length of time, expand al : press against nerve, which rende | him unconscious. For years he used t have sewed in the inside lining of h :. vest $lO0, for the purpose, he says . enabling persons who found him In ol y , of these unconscious spells, to care }, him. Mir, Sage talks rationally and I r members names of old friends and i Y l oiao.,4. :. z ,....L :. ... .,.,l,s.,,n +nl,r