The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-14
GIRL WITNESS
TELLS ALL At
SLAVE TRIAL
Inquisitors Merciless in Cross
examination of Marsha
Warrington, Diggs's For
mer Sweetheart.
HER CHARACTER MADE
CLEAR BY HER ANSWERS
Diggs Also Shown in an Un-
favorable Light; Plan of
the Defense Becomes
Obvious.
By EDWARD HAMILTON.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13.-Hour
after hour today the lawyers in the
Diggs case forced pretty little Marsha
Warrington to divest herself Of every
rag and shred of respectability. They
were as merciless as inquisitors.
Small wonder the little miss blushed
and cast down her eyes in fright. For
there was no sentiment so delicate
no situation so indelicate, no condition
so sacred that she was not forced to
forget modesty, girlhood, womanliness,
and tell, tell, tell. Such is the law.
Minute on dragging minute she was
forced to realize that the way of the
transgressor is hard.
But, taken for all in all, she was
what is called "good witness For
the most part she spoke up fairly, leav
ing the impression that she had steeled
herself to tell it all and have it over
with.
The defense would not leave her
much Of injured Innocence. They made
her say she was introduced to Diggs
by saloonkeeper friend, one Monte
Austin-introduced under a fictitious
name.
Tells of Her Trips.
They forced her to tell of trips to
San Francisco, Stockton and San Jose
I a1a
They did not pause in making her ad-
NIT that she expected to become a
mother.
They had her mashing'' man i'll
the Riverside hotel while Diggs and
Camiuetti were out renting the bunga
low. They placed the wine cup at her
lips They even convicted her Of
''ragging
1T was made part OF her reluctant
testimony that she knew Mrs. Diggs,
and had been entertained by her at
the Diggs fiat. She had accepted a
vanity set from Diggs, but Indignantly
denied receiving from him 50.
On top OF all this there was let
ter in which Diggs had addressed her
as Dear Pickles., name for the
cartoonist 10 coniure with,
Sad Day for Witness.
SO il was sad day for little
another ordeal tomorrow. But if she
made but a poor figure in the progress
of liaison. certainly Diggs showed in
4 mean and eontemptblc light. Il was
Shown that lie had lied about the APP
preaching newspaper disclosures that
had scared the two girls into hight.
Once i'll an interval OF the trial,
while Probation Officer NJ j. Sullivan
of Sacramento was testifying, he
blurtcd out;
Ny attention was called 10 Mr.
Diges taking the young girls but
he was not permitted to 20 further into
this. On the other hand, when the de-
fense offered to show that Marsha
Warrington was familiar with the night
life OF San Francisco, they were not
permitted 10 further besmirch reputa-
tlon already in so sad a state.
Dlggs and Camlnetti and Attorney
Harris, who is charged in one indict-
ment with them. had their heads to-
gcther all the day Diggs constantly
whispered suggestions to his lawyers
when they got to the scalpel work of
cross examination. His eyes cleaned.
His mien was alert; his figure tense
He was fighting with his back against
The wall. He knows only too we'll
that the penitentiary yawns before
bim and the turnkey stalks behind
When the debris of some formal ties.
timony had beeu cleared away Attorney
Roche took the low.spoken young
woman through her experience with
Diggs in the Reno hotel and bungalow.
IL came out that on the advice of
Diegs she and Miss Norris had re-
nained hidden for three days in the
Keno house lest some one should see
and know them. On his advice they
had not mailed the letters they had
written home After the arrest she had
led for him and had telephoned her
iathcr asking that the warrants he