The San Francisco call., 1913-08-20
MRS. D|GGs ASKED
MISS WARRINGTON
T0MEET HUSBAND
Wife Testifies She First
Met Girl and Later Invited
Her to the Diggs
Home
FORGIVES HUSBAND
TO SAVE HER CHILD
With Eyes Flooded by Tears
Faithful Woman Hears
Husbands Story
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Mann white slave act, the defenSe
rested when Mrs Diggs stepped from
the witness chair
| Nonplussed by the suddenness of the
end. the prosecution fenced for time.
Theodore Roche and Matt T. Sullivan.
special government prosecutors, were
pleased to have recess In which to
prepare the next move Of the attack.
They sent messengers for Marsha War
rington. the girl who was with Diggs
in the Reno escapade. When the War
rington girl arrived court resumed.
They did not return the girl to the
stand. After parrying, Roche began
the closing argument extempore. The
prosecutors expected to have last night
in which to frame their plea. Roche
talked for 40 minutes.
VERDICT MAY COME TONIGHT
Diggs may know his verdict tonight.
The case will go to the Jury today
Judge William c. Van Fleet an
nounced he will allow two hours and
70 minutes each for the arguments OF
the defense and prosecution.
Roche will resume his argument this
| morning. Sullivan will follow him.
Robert Devlin and Nate Coghlan will
argue for the defense.
Judge Van Fleet will interpret the
Mann act at some length in his charge
to the jury, but in any event, the 12
men In the box will have retired at s
o'clock this afternoon
The cross examination of Diggs was
brief but gril1ing. The prosecutors
did not ask Mrs. Diggs or Mrs. f. Drew
Caminetti q single question.
Little respect or sympathy remained
for Maury Diggs after he had related
that Marsha Warrington had invaded
the sacredness OF his wife's bedroom
with him. and, while his girl amour
joked at the rareness of the situation,
lperpetrated a crime that would make
the hardest wife vince
INVITED HER TO DINNER
And q few minutes later he retold
the story OF his inviting the Warning
ton girl TO dinner at his home, where
she boldly shared the companionship
OF Diggs with his wife and baby. after
the breach in the sanctum of his own
home. Mrs. Diggs heard this. She
took it like a stole.
Diggs wanted 1t understood Marsha
Warrington first suggested that he In
vite her to dinner at his home. Mrs.
Diggs related that she gave the invf-
Itation over the telephone at her hus-
bands suggestion
The wife spoke of the girl as MAR
sha." She referred to her husband as
'Maury' always. Before Marsha War
rington ever met Diggs, the wife testi-
fed. she had become great friends with
Mrs. Digs and the baby. Evelyn. at
Santa Cruz last summer, where they
met every day.
wIFE's STORY A PLEA
If the pretty woman had made di-
rect plea to the jury she could not
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send my husband to the penitentiary
He Is the father OF my baby. My idols
may have been shattered, but I can
not but love him. II baby Is to lose
everything, what will the law gain?"
Her blooming cheeks wore q deeper
flush than usual when she finished
The effort over, her brown eyes floated
In tears. They flooded and scared her
cheeks. She regained her composure
quickly and smiled oddly when her own
mother, the man Diggs. his father and
some women relatives spoke to her
CONSIDERABLY
Marsha Warrington skunk into the
courtroom and skunk out, evading her
gaze. Mrs Diggs bore herself proudly
on the stand She showed not the
slightest sign OF temerity. She was
armed with her virtue. She talked
clearly, forming every word prefectly.
WATCHED MISS WARRINGTON
Mrs. Diggs glanced at the warring-
ton girl as she came in. After court
the Warrington girl disappeared as
quietly as possible. Mrs. Diggs' eyes
followed her.
Drew Caminetti was not called as a
witness. His wife testified. She said
little, the court ruling her evidence had
no bearing on the cage at issue, which
concerns Diggs alone.
With little raffcauca save whau hA
prosecution insisted on knowing the
details of this intimacy with Marsha
warrington at his own home, Diggs told
the story OF his acts and the dealings
OF the party Of four up to the time
they took the train to Reno.
Devlin questioned Diggs only as to
the period up to the time they went
to the depot for the first time on the
Sunday evening of March 10, the night
OF the Reno elopement, and opposed Bit
terly the successful questioning of Sui
livan which connected him with the
doings OF the party at Reno.
SCARED TO DEATH"
The entire aim Of Diggs' statement
was to set up the fact that he was
scared to DEATH" as he puts 1t, when
he left Reno and that Marsha War
rington was responsible. largely. for
herself and Lola Norris accompanying
the two men in their fight.
Roche did not spare Diggs in his
argument. He said his lips had been
sealed until Diggs went on the stand
to discredit the statements OF the two
girls, but to say nothing to disprove
the testimony concerning the facts of
the Reno trip the prosecution had set
up.
The facts have been demonstrated on
the first four counts OF the indictment
beyond doubt Roche said, admitting
the only possible question OF guilt
might be on the fifth and sixth counts,
where. he said, the question Is whether
or not the acts were done with the in
tent OF committing some immoral act
with Marsha Warrington after he
travelled over the boundary limo be-
tween California and Nevada.
DIGGs' REsPONsIBILITY
Although he did not say 1t in so
many words, Roche inferred the only
alternative Diggs had If he did not in
tend to live with tho girl at Reno and
get divorce. was to see that she got
into . house of prostitution, where
Digs would be responsible for her no
longer.
The first four counts OF the indict-
ment charge Diggs with aiding In the
transportation OF each girl and the
purchasing Of tho tickets the girls
travelled on. The last two counts
charge him with having ~1nduced per-
suaded and enticed" tho girl Tor t>ae