Anna Sage

Ana Cumpănaș or Anna Sage, nicknamed Woman in Red (1889 – April 25, 1947), was a Romanian prostitute and brothel owner in the American cities of Chicago and Gary, Indiana. She is best known for assisting the Federal Bureau of Investigation to track down gangster John Dillinger.

Cumpănaș was a native of Comloșu Mare, a village in the Banat region of what is now Romania. She married Michael Chiolak in 1909, and the couple moved to the United States either the same year, in 1914, or 1919, settling in East Chicago, Indiana. They had a son, Steve Chiolak, in 1911, but their marriage did not last. By the end of the decade, Cumpănaș was working as a prostitute; she later became a madam. Her first brothel was in East Chicago, and in 1923, she opened a second one in Gary.

Cumpănaș married attorney Alexandru Suciu, and the couple used Sage as their surname (this was an anglicization of Suciu, reputedly preferred by Immigration and Naturalization Service officials). In 1923 or 1924, Cumpănaș-Sage traveled to Romania and visited her mother, returning on board the RMS Majestic. Friction between her husband and her son led to the breakup of the marriage, and Cumpănaș left Alexandru in 1932. A year later, she opened a brothel on Halsted Street in Chicago. By 1934, Cumpănaș was facing deportation to Romania, after the authorities deemed her to be an "alien of low moral character".