Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-08-12
Government Brings Evidence
From Reno to Substantiate
Its Claims.
POLICE CHIEF TELLS
OF GIRLS PROMISE
Miss Warrington Told Diggs
They Would Stay With
Them in Trouble.

UNITED PRESS LEASED wIRn.1
San Francisco, Aug 12.--John L. Nc
Nab, former United States district at
torney here, who lost his office in the
preliminaries of the Diggs. Caminetti
white slave cases, after charging At
torney.Genenl McReynolds with delay
ing their hearing because Of "pull,"
was the principal witness heard today
in the Diggs suit here in United States
Judge Van Fleet 5 court.
A buzz of excitement went round the
court room when McNab was called to
the stand and for time it was believed
that those angles to the case which
made it national in Importance were to
be touched on. This expectation, how.
ever, soon fell to the ground and not a
single word of the disagreement be-
tween McNab and the Washington au.
thorities was elected
Exhibits From Reno.
But if the sensation.seekers were foil.
in one direction, they scored in an-
other, for McNab was utilized to iden-
tify certain exhibits that made the
prurient minded among the court room
crowd crane their hecks to see. These
were sheets taken from the beds Of the
bungalow at Reno, where Diggs and
Caminetti were discovered after their
elopement to Nevada had laid the foun.
dation for the charge of white slavery
under which Diggs is being tried.
McNab's evidence was very brief.
He was not cross.examined and was dis.
missed from the stand just before adj
journment was taken at noon.
Effort to Prove Case.
The whole Of the evidence taken 10.
day centered about the attempt of the
prosecution to prove by the stained
sheets, by the testimony Of Reno police
as to the dishabille in which the quar-.
tette were found, and by other circum.
stances that the white slave law actual.
ly had been violated by the commits.
sion in the state Of Nevada of immoral
acts.
Further evidence on this point from
the Warrington and Norris girls them.
selves, is expected this afternoon, al.
though 1t probably will be late in the
day before the girls take the stand.
Tell Of scenelat Cabin.
Practically all the witnesses called
today were Intercepted closely as to
The condition of the cabin after the ar.
rest Of the clipping quartotte, routed
from bed on the morning Of March IA
by Chief Of Police Hillhouse and other
Reno officers.
"The girls came out Of the bathroom
With hair disodered and their dresses
loosely donned when we appeared at
he cottage, said Chief Hillhouse. He
reiterated the statement ascribed to
Diggs that he chopped tho Sacramento
'fficers would place him in a strong
,ox, as he feared being shot by Mr..
Marsha Ploade dior Boys.
"Both men said we We done nothing
wrong - was the chiefs further
tatcment lie was then cross.examin.
ID by Attorney Devlin for the defense
md admitted having heard Marsha
state TO her father over the
ong distance telephone that "the boys
Ire not to blame.
"shc said words to that effect, ad
nitted IIillhouse "asking her father
lot to do anything to the boys; to drop
he case
The witness did not remember that
Mss Warrington had said that II Il
anne to a fight between the parents Of
he girls and tho boys, she would cast
Ter lot with the boys, as was iutimated
y Dcylin.
Bearing on the state Of mind OF the
wo girls, as to whether they were do.
ected or not, lIillhouse stated that tho