White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-03-18
CLARENCE SAGE COMES TO NEVADA
AFTER PAROLE TO KILL WITNESS

company, Clarence Sage came direct
to Nevada to kill witness who had
helped to send him to the peniten-
tiary. Thursday night at Silver City
he shot and killed his man-Edward
Colquhoun, who was working there
as a miner.
| A mob of infuriated men OF the
Comstock is supposed to have sought
to string Sage to the first telegraph
pole, but the officers hurried him to
the Dayton jail. where he was at
last accounts
Colquhoun was working at the
Buckeye mine and was popular. He
was 80 years of age. He was met In
saloon by Sage, who had learned
of his whereabouts and had followed
him to Silver City. A brief argu-
Sage whipped out a gun and shot his
victim twice. One bullet went
through Colquhoun's neck and the
other grazed his heart.
F, Men tried to detain Sage in the
saloon after the shooting, but he
broke loose from them and ran to
the Bonanza hotel where he had
rented room. Deputy Sheriff DON
nelly followed him, entered the room
and found Sage crouching in fear
under the bed. Some time since the
shooting had elapsed, as the deputy
had to be called from Dayton, and
Sage must have been trying to con-
ceal himself there all of that time.
Donnelly took the prisoner back to
! Dayton and rapidly as possible and
crowds Of angered men hovered
about, with fears of violence con-
tinuing through the night
1t was about three years ago that
Sage committed the dastardly crime
for which he was sentenced in Ari-
zona. He was head gunman at Je-
rome for Robert E. Tally, assistant
general manager of the United Verde
company. Tally had a nephew who
was noted for being shiftless and
had separated from his wife. She
was native OF Beaver, Utah. and
they had married at Goldfeld She
having gone to Jerome to secure q
portion of the family property after
the separation, room was engaged
at the Sullivan hotel. Robert Tally
to run the woman out of town. That
night Sage and a plumber named F.
Woods took a bottle of drugged
whisky and forced themselves into
the woman's room, where they IN
duced her to take a drink. Then
they forced more liquor upon her
and after she was we'll under the
influence of the drug they proceeded
to violate her person. After that
they called in other men, including
two night policemen at Jerome, who
held their positions at the pleasure
of the copper company. and all hands
repeatedly committed the same
crime. This was continued through
the night.
The following day when she had
sufficiently recovered to realize her
predicament the woman swore out
warrants for Sage and Woods. At
their hearing before Justice of the
Peace William Hughes they were
bound over and the judge told them
that instead of binding them over
they should be hanged to the first
lamp post. Because of his fearless
ness in handling their case the cop
per company compelled Hughes 10
move out of company house that
his family had occupied as resi-
dence for many years which he held
as tenant while employed by the
company before taking office.
In its efforts to prevent the con-
viction of Sage the company spent
over 100000. but he and Woods
were convicted and given sentences
of fourteen years each
Since that time the company has
circulated petitions among It's sal.
af led employees and other persons un-
der obligations to secure pardon
for Sage. At that time Thomas E.
Campbell was governor of Arizona
and head OF the pardon board. the
other members being subject to his
will. 1t would have been too brazen
10 have yielded at the time % the
demands for Sage's pardon, so
Campbell stalled 1t off until after the
last election In that election he
was defeated by his old rival, George
w. p. Hunt. several times governor
and late minister to Siam under ap-
pointment by President Wilson. At
the last hour before going cut of of.
fee. as 1t was plain that there would
not be another chance for two years
anyway and possibly never. the
Campbell board yielded to the cop
per company request and granted
Sage parole. He would have been
the last man that Hunt would have
ever liberated, and this was we'll un.
derstood.
Incidentally Campbell was indors-