The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-08-08
DIGGS. CAMINETTI
TRIALS have
BEGUN
GOVERNMENT WILL TRY TO
sNPSBRVE THAT DEFENDANTS
AND GIRLS LIVED TOGETHER.
RELATIONS Are SET FORTH
Young Married Men Charged With
Frightening Girls Into Leaving Sac
ramento and Promised to Marry
Then When Divorces Were Secured.

San Francisco, Aug S.-A jury was
sworn, the government stated its case
and the taking of testimony was begun
yesterday in the first of the Diggs- Cam
inetti trials. The case was calledTues-
day morning in the United States Dis
trict Court, on an indictment charg-
ing Maury I. Diggs and F. Drew Cam
inetti jointly, with violation of the
Mann white slave law.
Theodore Roche of special counsel
for the government, set forth tersely,
in the closing hour of the afternoon
session, the prosecutions case. He
told the jury the government would at
tempt to prove the following:
/. That Marsha Warrington and
Lola Norris, one twenty years old and
the other nineteen, had been frighten-
ed by Maury I. Diggs and F. Drew
Caminetti, married men with children,
one twentyeight and the other twenty
seven years old, into leaving Sacra-
mento lest scandal explode and
criminal prosecution follow.
2. That marriage had been promis-
ed after the two husbands should have
divorced their wives.
8. That Caminetti raised the money
for the trip from Sacramento to Reno,
and that Diggs bought the transporta-
ton and paid the Pullman fares
4. That the four travelled as married
couples, occupying the same state room
on a night train.
3. That, on arriving at Reno, the
morning of March 11,1913, they regis
tered at hotel as married, and occu-
pied adjoining rooms, with a bath be-
tween,
C. That Diggs hired a four-room
bungalow, paying rent in advance for
month, and representing to the agent
that the party was from Los Angeles,
and intended to spend six months in
Reno
Z. That all four lived in the bun
galow for three days before they
were arrested, Diggs and Marsha War
rngton occupying the front room, and
Caminetti and Lola Norris rear room
S. That Diggs was in his night
clothes when he opened the back door
of the bungalow to the officers who
arrested him the morning of the 14th,
and that the officer waited in the living
room while the two girls dressed
Q. That after the return to Sacre-
mento Diggs had written to Marsha
Warrington, from Berkeley, adjuring
her to keep up her courage and that all
would end well if she would remember
what he had told her, particularly if
she was firm in denying that there had
been any improper relations between
them.
After outlining the case, Roche in
troduced Diggs' marriage license, and
identified it by George D. Leslie, a sta
tstican.
J. II. Stevens, vice president of a
Sacramento bank, identified Diggs'
handwriting on checks and notes as the
same that were shown him In which
letter to Marsha Warrington was
1>Aed Objections to the introduction
Of the testimony were overruled.
The jury is composed of business
men, active or retired, and includes
one retired liquor dealer, and one
friend of former partner of Diggs,
Sr.
Ten jurors are married, and eight of
them have children. OF those who are
fathers, six have daughters. Nothing
J, in the examination of talesmen indi-
Gated the tactics of the defense.
Just before court adjourned, F. ].
peek, Reno real estate dealer, was on
the stand The defense sought to show
that the bungalow which the couples
occupied in Reno had been rented with
no view to concealment.
az don't see," interposed Judge Van
Fleet, how it can make any difference
II they went there openly or secretly.
Unless the government can show they
went there for the purpose prohibited
nv the Mann white slave act, then the
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