Las Vegas optic., 1913-09-17
FORMER GETS TWO YEARS
HIS coMRADE IN VICIOUS EscAP-
ABE is GIVEN EIGHTEEN
MONTHS
STAY OF EXECUTION GIVEN
MEN ARE RELEASED ON BOND
PENDING DECISION OF THE
HIGHER COURT

san Francisco, Sept. 17.Maury I.
Diggs. former state architect OF Cali
fornia, was sentenced today by Judge
Van Fleet in the United States dis
trict court to serve two years in the
state penitentiary at San Quentin and
pay fine Of $4,000 for violating the
Mann white slave traffic act.
F. Drew Caminetti, son Of Anthony
Caminetti. United States commission
er general Of immigration, was SEN
fenced to Is months at San Quentin
and to pay fine Of $500 for SIM
liar offense.
A Today stay Of execution was
granted, and for that period Diggs
was admitted to bail in the su mof
$4,000 and Caminetti in the sum Of
$4,000.
The stay Of execution was granted
il order to permit the defense to per
feet an appeal to the United States
circuit court Of appeals for a writ Of
error.
Motions for a new trial and for ar
rest OF Judgment were daied
Before sentence was imposed, Rob
ert T. DeYIin for the defense argued
at length, that. should the sentence
exceed one year, it lay in the disere-
tion of the court to designate a state
or a county jail, rather than a federal
penitentiary. Judge Van Fleet said
he was in some doubt as to bis pow
ers in that matter and would be glad
to listen.
Accordingly it came as a surprise,
after San Quentin penitentiary had
been designated. when Deylin re-
quested the court to amend the sem
tence to specify the federal peniten-
tiary on McNeill's Island, Washington.
Judge Van Fleet ruled that the SEN
tence as originally pronounced must
stand, but added that he was willing
application for a change should be
made to the department Of justice at
Washington.
Diggs was convicted Of having vio-
lated the Mann act on four counts
and Caminetti on one Each count
carried maximum penalty Of five
years imprisonment and $4,000 fine.
making a possible sentence of 20
years and $4,000 fine for Diggs ana
five years and $4,000 fine for camin-
ETH.
The offense charged was that the
4 prisoners transported Marsha War
rington and Lola Norris from sacra-
mento to Reno, for immoral purposes.
Both girls testified for the prosecution
and both wives for their husbands
At no time did the defense attempt
to deny that the acts charged had
been committed It's effort was 10
show that there had been no criminal
intent, that the elopement to Reno
was an @escapade," to which the men
and the girls alike were driven BY
fright Of scandal and the threats of
their families.
The four fled to Reno early ii the
morning Of March 10, were arrested
in Reno March IA. brought back to
Sacramento and the men were locked
up in the Sacramento county Jail on a
felony charge on March Is. ana re-
leased three days later on $4,000 bail.
The case then hung fire until April
Y. when Digga and eaminetti were
indicted by federal grand jury pro-
& secution lagged and the case jumped
suddenly into national notoriety when
] John T. McNab, the United States 81.
! torney in charge Of the goyernmen
7 case, resigned, saving III ~ open lei-
+ ter to President Wilson that polHcaI
j influence was being brought 70 bar
I on the attorney general SCI rs
case from coming b