Arizona republican., 1913-08-14
Marsha Warrington Again Chief Witness in the Case of Maury I. Diggs Who is Charged With Viola tiOn of Mann Act
MAY AGAIN GO
 ON THE STAND
On CrOss-EXamination the Young Woman M a k e Stronger the Points She Brought Out in Her Di- rect Testimony
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATcHI

ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATCH1 SAN FRANCISCO, August 13--
 Marsha Warrington continued to be
 the chief and almost the only wit
 ness heard today at the trial of the
 ease against Marry l. Dicgs. former
 state architect of California, charged
 under the Mann act with having
 transported her from Sacramento to
 Reno for immoral purposes She
 picked up her unfinished story of her
 intimacy with the defendant and car
 ried it through from the beginning to
 the end, lowering her eyes at times.
 hanging her head and dropping her
 voice almost to a whisper, but never
 taltering in her answers.
 No attempt was made to shake her narrative on the rosseXamination The defense sought to widen her ad- missions of immortality and drew from her dates and places of other lapscs with the defendant. but the efforts u bring in the names Of other men were djaanoWed.
 When she left the stand. still sub jcct to further examination tomorrow her story remained untold. Diggs is said to have induced her to leave home against her wishes and judg- mCnt. That he bought transporta- ton for the trip to Reno was mere 1- an episode in their platonic friend --ip
 During the cross examination Diggs constantly prompted the questions of thr attorneys and steadily kept his eyes on the girls yelled face. but she constantly averted his gaze When the essentials Of her previous testi- laonv were called into doubt she made her answers stronger in re- affirmation.
 Two minor witnesses, the managing editor of Sacramento newspaper, and the probation officer of Sacra- nento county, denied there had been 9 scandal that connected the names "f the four on the point of exploding into print or that arrests were i'm pending if they remained in Sacra- mento.
 Miss Warrington had testified that Diggs told her such was the case and that this fear was the prime motive for her leaving home.
 The court room was somewhat startled at the afternoon session by the emphatic admonitions of the judge tQ the jury that the case must not be discussed by the jurors. par ticulaIly with any friend of Diggs or r. Drew Caminetti, the co-defend- ant in another case of like indictment. They must not even allow the case to be mentioned within their hearing or rca> about it in the newspapers. These were the usual instructions to jurors. but the emphasis with which they Were twice repeated by Judge Van Fleet in the afternoon gave rise 1 tJ inquiries he did not satisfy. lie refused absolutely to discuss his req sons, and Theodore Roche who thus far has conducted the governments | ease would be no more specific, aI- | though he did say the reason of the !! courts order was that one juror had 1 admitted he had been in company | where the case was discussed, though | he had not joined the talk
 Just before adjournment Nathan | ooghlan, for the defense, asked per l mission to place Roche on the stand. | On the return trip from Reno. he | said, while all four were under ar rest Marsha Warrington had given District Attorney Atkinson. of Sac 1 ramento. statement of the elope- nent which was taken down by the official court reporter which was en- -irely at variance, he was informed, rom her testimony in court The defense wished the statement as aVidence. Judge Van Fleet held he 1ad no power to compel the prose- 'ution to surrender the statement, but Fas willing it should be introduced 'y agreement and if introduced, 1t should be made the basis of cross Roche resisted the mo- ion.
 The story of Lola Norris was fore 'EadoWed lightly when Miss Warning on testified she and Diggs had been companions of Caminetti and Miss Norris on various trips to san Fran -isco, Stockton and San Jose. where hey had registered under false names IS married couples
 On cross examination Attorney 'oghlan asked:
 Isn't it fact that the first sug- sestion about this trip to Reno came rom Caminetti?"
 No" she answered. ''Diggs first suggested it, and said we would have Q go immediately in order to avoid ! ,Xposure and avoid arrest and trouble vith the juvenile court authorities.
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