The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-25
WOMAN IN RED
 WAS IDENTIFIED
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which Dillinger was trapped.
 She was discovered to be Ru- manian whom the government had planned to deport.
 She formerly operated resort in Gary, Ind, and was an acquaint- ance of Sergeant Martin Zarkovich of the East Chicago, Ind, police, Zarkovich was credited by Captain Timbothys O'Neil of East Chicago with planning the Dillinger ambush single handed.
 A letter found in her room, noti- flying her that an appeal from a deportation order had been denied. led Captain Thomas Duffy to ask:
 "Would you have betrayed Dill finger into police or government hands if that would have gained consideration for your appeal?"
 Mrs Sage Denied All Mrs Sage refused to answer, he said.
 She denied that she had any re- cent contact with Zarkovich or that she ever had talked to federal agents. She even denied that she knew the man with whom she had associated for weeks was Dillinger'
 He was known to her and to Mrs Keele, she said, as Jim Lawrence. a bond clerk who liked a good time and spent money freely.
 The part Mrs Sage and Mrs Keele played in Dillinger's easy spending last days was revealeo through newspaper reproductions of the photograph in his watch.
 The owner of the restaurant where both women worked, Will liam Hertenstein, and another waitress in the place, Miss Maxine Dunn, recognized the picture as that of Mrs Keele and notified Cap tain Duffy.
 called. Mrs Keele dashed into the restaurant gasping:
 ''Dillinger was just killed!"
 "How do you know?" Miss Dunn asked. ~
 T can't tell but you read the papers in a few minutes% she said Mrs Keele answered..
 The next day, she said, Mrs Keele telephoned her, asking her to go to her apartment hotel ana obtain some of her clothes. She refused.
 Scarlet Dress Found
 Police visited the apartment ana questioned Edward Miller, the hotel manager.
 Miller said that Monday, the day after Dillinger was killed, two gov ernment agents ransacked her room, but departed without appar' takinp anything.
 Police found in a closet a scarlet silk dress. They concluded that Mrs Keele was the "woman in red whom half a dozen witnesses of Dillinger's death had spotted as his companion.
 By tracing a telephone number found on memorandum pad, which led to Mrs Sage, they learned that they were wrong. II was her dress.
 At her home, an apartment on North Halsted street, just around a corner from the Biograph the ater. they were told by tenants and the manager that Diliinger had roomed for several weeks III Mrs Sage's apartment.
 Mrs Sage denied that Dillinger had lived there and said she met him only occasionally. and then through Mrs Keele.
 Federal Men Grab Her :,
 While Captain Duffy questioned her on that point three federal agents, headed by Samuel F. cow ley. first assistant to Melvin Pur- wis, chief federal investigator here,' stormed angrily into the Sheffield police station.
 Cowley told Mrs Sage to shut up" even before he spoke to police. then he protested angrily agains. police interference in government case into which they had not been invited.
 Duffy replied that he intended to hold Mrs Sage for further investi- gation. Cowley telephoned Police Commissioner James P. Altman.
 Altman telephoned Duffy ana ordered him to release Mrs sage to the government men.
 Cowley took her from the station. Today he refused to reveal where she went. Purvis refused to dis cusS her.