Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-08-20
D|GG'S FATE IS
in JURYS
HANDS
NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL CASE CLOSED
THIS AFTERNOON FOLLOWING
TWO HOUR ARGUMENTS BY
Attorneys ==CAMINETT| COMES
next.
PROSECUTOR ROCHE
MAKES WORTHY SPEECH

San Francisco. Calf, Aug, 90
Remember, gentlemen of the jury
that ninety millions of people ar
watching you this day, watching yol
to be informed whether justice shal
triumph or lust shall rule: watching Il
see if the laws for the protection o
girls and women are to be enforced
in this far western land
This was the closing appeal toda!
of Theodore ]. Roche, representing
the United States government, for ;
verdict of guilty under the Mann
white slave act against Maury !. Diggs
former state architect
AS Roche sat down, Robert Devlil
opened his summary of the case fol
the defense.
This defendant" said Roche, "dit
not deny on the stand the truth OF the
essential facts we have shown. He
had to admit them all And then he
comes before you and asks acquittal
THE defendant in criminal case
usually bases his defense on the pre-
sumption of innocence, but this de.
fendant relies on his own depravity
and Righteousness. He comes into
court covered with his own shame
and hides behind the skirts of his
wife and child.
when these girls went to Reno
their departure meant social ostra-
cism. Marsha Warrington went be-
cause she believed and trusted this
dresses or presents. Her parents
gave her these. But this man had
promised her marriage, as Caminetti
had promised Lola Norris.
"Those promises at the time they
were made never We're intended to be
kept 1t was intended to abandon the
girls in Reno. They never could have
returned to Sacramento--and you
know what that meant But the allur-
ing promise OF marriage had been held
out to then"
Attorney Roche was particularly Sc
we're with Dggs for the misconduct in
his own home, to which he testified
yesterday. He had not been content,
said Roche, with making an assigna-
tion house of his office, but he must
similarly degrade the privacy of a
home he shared with beautiful. vir-
tuous and loving wife.
Who will limit the devotion of
Wife? Mrs. Maury !. Diggs sat yester-
4, l,r hl1c.
band stands charged as a white
s,aver, heard him testify under hos
tile questions that he had been un.
faithful to her with Marsha Warning
ton in their own apartments and,
twenty minutes later, herself took the
witness stand to testify in his behalf.
What blackening of character was
done, Diggs did himself. He testl
fed freely to the plight into which
he had worked himself and there was
this bit of testimony about his com
panion of his errors:
Relate the facts concerning the
visit of Lola Norris, Caminetti, Miss
Warrington and yourself to your home
On that night early in January during
the absence of your wife. Did you
take Miss Warrington into your wife's
BEDROOM"
Miss Warrington took me in
Thereupon Diggs, testifying with
display of reluctance, told of Miss
Warrington's alleged gloating over her
triumph over the absent wife,
Mrs. Diggs was not forced to listen
to all these details. Part of the time
she stood outside the door, waiting
to be called. But there was an ordeal
in store for her. She had to submit !
to the curious comparison by the
women spectators between herself and
Marsha Warrington, who sat for forty
at the governments counsel
table, while the court room stared
trst at the mistress and then at the
wife.
Mrs. Diggs is strikingly pretty
brunette. Her manner was gentle and
refined her voice sweetly modulated !
and her words we'll chosen.
Neither she nor Mrs. Caminetti was
Both were questioned briefly and
the substance of their discourse was
of the sleeplessness, erratic, narvous
behavior and air of worriment that
their husbands begin !
ming with the week of March 8, and
ending in Reno. Mrs. Diggs told how !
she had gone with her troubles to her
father-in-law Mrs. Caminetti tried to |
tell how she had threatened to inter-
view Judge Hughes of the juvenile !
court, but inasmuch as she did not go
rntil after the arrests made in Reno,
the Judge held her testimony imma-
terial.
Diggs was the center of the day. !
Handsomely gowned women stood two +
hours without luncheon in the cor
r'dors of the federal building to hear
his concluding testimony. For the
first time since the trial began there
were more women in attendance than
men. By earl attendance the men
we're in the /.najority during the fore