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Show DENIES BE IS MRS. SAGE'S HUSBAND H: Mrs. Elmer Sage, arrested on a B, charge of vagrancy, says that she was HT marriod to Elmer Sago In California, Hi In 1SS4. Elmer Sage, arrested also H on a charge of vagrancy, says that he H never knew the woman claiming to H ho his wife until last Juno and that H Bho has usurped his name without bis H consent. Tho judge of the polico Ht court must determine which of the H' two prisoners is tolling the truth. fl. According to tho story of the ar H , resting officers, Mrs. Sage was arrcst- ed because of illicit solicitation on the streets. After her arrest she de- H- nicd that she had committed any 11- H licit act and claimed that she was llv- Hl lng with her husband at a Twcnty-flfa fl street hotel. Officers found tho sun- Hl posed husband where the woman said. H that he would be found. When taken p to the police station, Sage denied that H ' he was tho husband of the woman i prisoner, claiming that he was only Hj her comDanion and that they had first Hll met in Salt Lale City last June. H-W "Do you mean to deny that you are H ' my husband?' 'asked the woman this j j ' morning. "Will you deny our chll- 1 . t dren the four children that you are H tho father of" Ki v. Sage looked at the woman coolly BU ' and smiled as ho repeated to tho of- H I fleers that he was not tho woman's H husband. H In the police court the woman told H her story again. She said that she H was married to Sage In 1S84 and that H they had four children, two of which H were now old enough to be self-sui)- fl porting. The other two children she fl said were still in Colorado and she H1 I and her husband were supporting l them ""j ' "We have not always lived togeth- H I er," she said, "and when -I met my Ht ), husband in Salt Lake last June wo H1 . ; bad ben apart for a long time. I met H SI i him bs accident, but when we met we decided to patch up our old differences and live together again. Wo have been together over since " Tho husband was not called to the stand to testify as the Judge stated that ho would "like to havo tho police make some further investigations before be-fore the case should bo finally settled. set-tled. Both tho prisoners woro hell under a bond of $100 and tho caso will probably be settled Monday |