The San Francisco call., 1913-08-16


had girls up in his Office the night be-
fore and that the juvenile court would
get after him and he probably would
be punished"
On cross examination by Matt +.
Sullivan, Mr.. Diepenbrock said he had
not heard of Diggs' stenographer in
connection with the stories. He said
the janitor had told him the policeman
on the beat said girls had been there
on previous occasions for more than a
month and it would have to be stopped.
TELLS OF THREATS
P. ]. O'Brien of Sacramento, who
owns the saloon at which the testf-
mony showed Diggs was one of the
principal customers for long time.
related he had told Diggs he had heard
that an uncle of Marsha Warrington
threatened to shoot him. Most of his
testimony was stricken out as hear
say.
A chauffeur by the name of D. 7.
Leitch of Sacramento testified he had
driven the Diggs- -Caminetti party of
-four once or twice and heard Diepen-
brock make the statement to Diggs,
The Juvenile court is after you, and
I'm telling you the truth"
Alfred Putnam, sporting editor of the
Sacramento Bee, who said he had kept
company" with Marsha Warrington for
some time previous to June, 1912, was a
better witness for the prosecution than
for the defense.
WARNING AGAINST DIGGs
Putnam happened to see Miss War
rington meet Diggs for the first time.
Soon after, he said, II called her up
over the telephone and told her she
ought to lay off with Diggs, that he was
a married man. She said, I certainly
will On the day before they left Reno
Miss Warrington called me on the tele-
phone at the office and said she had
heard the Bee was going to print a
story about her and Diggs and Miss
Norris and Caminetti I told her that
was foolish, and asked her again to quit
going with Diggs, that he wasn't any
good. that he had a bad reputation and
it would .hurt her father. She said i
never will again, believe me-
PAPER WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE
On cross examination Putnam said no
such story was ever written and that
the paper was entirely without know1-
edge of the case, that he was the only
one in the Office who knew anything
about it.
I. P. Diggs said he had told his son
he intended "to prosecute the whole
bunch to the fullest extent of the law"
Regarding a telephone conversation
he had with his son during the last
week the defendant was in Reno. Mr..
Diggs said: Il told him I LAD bad re-
ports OF him and for him to come down
immediately and bring his machine. He
asked me why I wanted him to bring
his automobile and 1 told him l was
going to take it away from him. He
said in that event he would not come
down and then / replied that would
come up there, that / IVES going to
get that automobile and stop this
business of his running around with
women
ACCOUNT OyERDRAWN
On the occasion OF Mr.. Diggs' last
conversation with his son, when he met
him in San Francisco few days be-
fore the elopement, cross examination
brought out the fact that young Diggs
had been worrying over the fact that
he had overdrawn his account and was
in some trouble as a result. He was
under arrest, but Mr.. Diggs said his
son had got out of that all right and
was worrying about something else
which he refused to tell about.
The testimony of Martin Besley, who
went to Reno at the request of the
parents of the two girls and caused
the arrest of the young men, agreed
entirely with the expectations Of the
prosecution He was the last witness
for the prosecution and told little that
was new Besley is a travelling agent
in the employ of the Santa Fes
The cross examina ton developed the
fact that the father of Marsha War
rington is his superior officer and
might discharge him if he SO desired