Nevada State Prison Inmate Case Files
Clarence A. Sage
Clarence Sage was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to the Nevada State Prison in November of 1923. He was paroled on November 17, 1927. Sage was a native of Minnesota, who had a reputation around the west of being a hired gunmen. He was hired by the owners of the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company during the strike of December 1906 as a detective. Sage was incarcerated in the Arizona State Prison in 1920 for statutory rape, and released in December of 1922. In March of 1923 he was back in Nevada and was involved in a fight in Silver City, which is just south of Virginia City in western Nevada. The other man involved was Ed Colquhoun. Sage and Colquhoun first fought with fists, later however Sage retrieved a gun and came back to a Silver City saloon to seek out Colquhoun. As Colquhoun approached Sage, Sage fired two shots and killed Colquhoun. Sage, after leaving prison settled in California where he died in 1930.
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