Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-08-16
'D|CGS DEFENSE TOCLOSE
BY WEDNESDAY

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BAUCHERY DIGGS HAD TO FLEE FROI
San FRANCISCO, But SELECTION 0
RENO As DESTINATION WAS AN AC
CIDENT.
San Francisco, Calf, Aug, ia
a result of the free.for,all fight yester
day between newspaper Photograph
ers and the Diggs- s-Caminetu party
Maury !. Diggs was re arrested today
charged with assault by A. Devnne
! Frank Ramsay, a friend of Diggs, also
arrested yesterday in the same melee
/ WAS found guilty today of assault Oh
/ w. Mathews, and will be sentenced
/ Monday.
I Diggs became incensed yesterday
because photographers attempted tc
snap his wife and mother, his father
and aunts, as they We're leaving the
federal building, where Diggs is on
trial under the Mann white slave traf-
tlc act. After the fight that followed
the whole party of men We're bundled
into the patrol wagon and taken to the
learest station house,
San Francisco, Calf, Aug. lG.--Con
sui for the defense announced last
night tha Mrs. Diggs and Mrs.
Caminetti, the two injured wives,
would take the stand for their hus-
bands and that Diggs would testify
il his own behalf. With these three
witnesses, the defense. plans to close
its case, not later than Wednesday.
So far as the opening statement Of
Attorney Devlin for the defense indi-
Gated, no attempt will be made to
show that the two girls did not ac-
company the two young married men
to Reno that Diggs did not buy the
tickets and Caminetti drew the money
or that their relations did not fall
within the language of the statute
I'VE shall SHOW" said Attorney
Devlin to the jury, that the purpose
G. this trip was not as stated in the
il dictments: that it was the intention
oi the defendants only to leave Sac
ramento for short time to avoid no
toriety; that they had first intended
to go to some place within the state;
that it never was their intention to
leave the state, but simply to get out
Of Sacramento; that they missed
train for Los Angeles and took the
next one, which went to Reno.
This crime-if it is "a crime--is
such only because the incidents are
supposed to have happened between
two states. If they happened within
the boundaries Of California these
two young men would not have been
charged with the violation of this
statute.
1.-TWO weeks preyials Diggs had
said he was going to Los Angeles. We
viii show that Miss Warrington said
she was going too, and that he could
not leave her in Sacramento"
Other testimony which the defense
means to introduce would go to show
that the men had told what they be-
l,eved to be the truth about the rea-
sons for leaving Sacramento-tha a
scandal soon to explode would cover
Them all with shame and involve them
all in prosecutions.
The two defendants had the moral
support yesterday Of their wives and
II others who appeared in court after
the noon intermission and listened to
some particularly unpleasant testi.
mony. While Mrs. Diggs had her pret-
Iy little daughter, Evelyn, years old
N her knees, she heard M. II. dep
lebrook testify to the character of
ler husband as a tenant.
'The janitor of my office building,
1e testified, and the policemen on
he beat told me that Diggs was EN- /,
ertaining young girls in his office. /
cautioned him and told him that |
aould not have him make an assig-
,ation house out of the building. The /
anitor had told me that the juvenile
were after Diggs and
old him So"
The purpose of this testimony was
. show that Diggs had cause for
larm and desire to flee. Corrobora
i've testimony was given by p. j.
,'Brien, saloonkeeper;; d, T. Leitch,
chauffeur, and G. A. Putnam, a
newspaper man.
The latter testified that he former
:, had known Marsha Warrington.
81 told her to shake Diggs; that he
vas no good: that he had bad repu-
alton; that it would hurt her good
anne and her fathers business and
uin her character to have anything
} do with him.
"She said: I will never go out with
i'm any more, believe me-
Il told her that my newspaper did i
OF have any scandal story about her t
nd wouldn't print it if it had Il
The last witness was Diggs' father, {
p. Diggs, contractor and bui1Ger I
t Berkeley He seemed bowed un- {
er the weight of sorrow, but told a '
story of all the town t
,lk surrounding his son and the eff c
'rts he made to induce him to mend
is ways.
Il told him I wanted him to come =,
nd see me and round the whole )
ling up His uncle, Marshall Diggs,
nd his young wife had told me that
p was running wild with other wom-
a | told him I didn't want the fam