NEWS EXCERPTS
Source: Tucson Daily Citizen - Arizona
Dated Mar. 9, 1906
MRS. SAUVAGE WILL BE TRIED IN NOGALES.
Will Have to Answer There to Charge of Killing Her
Husband In Bisbee - Is Now in Tucson
Mrs. Henry Sauvage and son,
Amos Stone, who are now in the city will have to go to Nogales in
April to face a murder charge. They are accused of killing Henry
Sauvage in Bisbee on December 1. They were running a laundry.
That the charge against the defendants is not taken very seriously is shown by
the fact that Mrs. Sauvage is under but $5000 bond, while
Stone's bond is $3000.
The Bisbee Review says of the coming trial:
"Attorney Tom Bennett has received
information from Associate Justice Fletcher M. Doan to the effect
that the trial of Mrs. Kate Sauvage and her son, Amos
Stone, for the killing of Henry Sauvage in Bisbee on Dec. 1, last, will
take place in Nogales during the second week in April.
"To about forty Bisbee people this means that they must
take a trip in April to Nogales, there to give testimony for the defense or
prosecution in Mrs. Sauvage's case and that of her son. It
is possible that the number will be greater than that by the time all the
subpoenas are served.
"Mrs. Sauvage and Stone are now in
Tucson, the former under a $,000 bond and the latter under $3000. Before
coming to Bisbee they resided in that city. Sauvage and the wife who
killed him, were running a laundry here at the time she shot him down as he was
approaching his home.
"The filing for probate recently in Tombstone of
Sauvage's will discloses the fact that about a year previous to the time
Sauvage met his death he must have been on excellent term with his wife,
when they had wills drawn up and signed, each willing to the other the property
in their name.
"W. E. Stone, brother of the young man charged
jointly with his mother with Sauvage's death, has been appointed
administrator of the deceased's estate, with will annexed. His bond, has been
fixed in the sum of $600, which was yesterday forwarded to Tombstone to be
approved by Probate Judge Goodbody.
"Sauvage was not possessed of any considerable
amount of property, but that it must go to the woman who killed him and is now
about to be tried for the offense is a strange freak of fate, and makes the
decision of the couple to sign wills, each giving to the other what they
possessed, the forerunner of an event that neither could have anticipated at the
time.
"Mrs. Sauvage and her son are to be tried
in Nogales as a result of a change of venue that was granted by Judge
Doan, who ordered the case moved from Cochise county to Nogales on the
ground that local prejudice would not permit the defendants to get a fair and
impartial trial.
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Source: Tucson Daily Citizen - Arizona
Dated: Oct. 16, 1906
Answers to Charge of Murder Trial of Mrs. Kate Sauvage is Now on at
Nagales, Claims Killing Done In Self Defense.
A former Tucson woman is now battling for her life in
Nogales. The woman is Mrs. Kate Sauvage, who is charged with
murdering her husband in Bisbee more than a year ago. Hon. W. H.
Sawtelle, of this city, is counsel for Mrs. Sauvage.
The cause would have been tied in Cochise county, but a
change of venue was secured on the ground that there is prejudice against Mrs.
Sauvage in Cochise county.
Mrs. Sauvage's husband was a bartender
and he was shot by his wife as he was returning home in the morning.
Sauvage had in his pocket a six shooter. Mrs. Sauvage
claimed that she shot her husband because he had mistreated her and had only the
night before the killing threatened her with death. At the time of the
killing her son, Amos Stone, was a short distance away, armed with
a rifle. Mrs. Sauvage also claimed that she had warned her
husband before she shot, not to approach her house.
A large number of witnesses have been summoned by both
the Territory and the defense. It is the contention of the Territory that
the killing was pre-arranged.
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Source: Miami Herald Record
Dated: Aug. 1, 1922
SAUVAGE TELLS OF FATAL AUTOCRASH
Declares Lights of Approaching. Car Blinded Him so that He Could
Not See Barrier.
SPECIAL TO THE HERALD.
WEST PALM BEACH, July 31. - Jurymen, judge, commissioners,
counsel and reporters clustered close around J. V. Sauvage,
as with wounded mouth and ragged lips he tried to form words to
tell how he drove his Maxwell car on the Sunday night it plunged
into the canal and his wife was killed. Sauvage testified
that he had left Miami about a quarter of five, stopped about
three minutes for oil in Lake Worth, had a small puncture and
slipped in a new tube. He was driving along behind an automobile
whose pace suited him, not more than 18 or 20 miles an hour.
Suddenly he caw the care ahead swerve to the right, as if giving
him the road and he took advantage of it, expecting to pass
around that car. Instead, suddenly ahead of him about ten feet,
he said, he saw a shadow, as if it had risen up in front. As he
had turned to pass the car ahead, he was blinded by a light
ahead, not close, but ahead. He dimmed his lights, the shadow
loomed ahead, he put on the brakes, hoping to slow the car
before it hit the thing ahead.
Mr. Sauvage has never heard from
the car ahead that turned out. "I think," he told the jury "he
was going the same place I went and saw it and turned out
suddenly."
He described how the car reached the edge and turned,
sliding sideways into the water.
"I never saw my wife after we got into the water." With
a sudden energy he said, "I believe if it hadn't been for that
car ahead I'd have been all right." |
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