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Show j S AVA j E GIVE I Pleads Guilty to Charge of Impersonating Federal Operative Charged with impersonating an officer. of-ficer. Thomas W. Savage appeared before be-fore Judge D. R. Roberts of the municipal mu-nicipal court this morning and was given a Jail sentence of 00 days, following fol-lowing his plea of guilty. . Savage admitted having entered a Chinese establishment on Twenty-fifth streot. Officers claim he confiscated an opium pipe and a quantity of this drug and then promised immunity to the Chinese owner? of the equipment if he was paid a certain sum of money. Savage, admitted having been arrested arrest-ed about a year ago in Salt Lako on a similar charge, and also said that he had appeared before the city court a short time ago on a charge of disturbing dis-turbing the peace at a local rooming house. j Officers claimed that Savage told , them that he was working under Sam 1 Doherty, "United States deputy marshal. mar-shal. Savage gave no explanation as to why he had entered the Chinese establishment. es-tablishment. When the local officers investigated tho place where the opium smoking had been going on, they said it was Impossible to obtain evidence against the Chinamen because of the fact that the guilty ones c"uld not be' determined deter-mined from among the number that was present. |