Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-06-21
INFLUENCE and
WEALTH VS..
right
JOHN |. M'NAB, U. S. DISTRICT At.
TORNEY FOR NORTHERN CALI.
F0RNIA, RESIGNS BECAUSE ne
IS NOT ALLOWED TO PROSECUTE
WEALTHY WHITE SLAVERS.
RESIGNATION IS A
SCATHING ARRA|GNMEN1

Acdll TiaiiSiSSO, Juilt -oIiiLC'
States District Attorney John l.. Nc
Nab, for the district of northern Cali
fornia, announced today that he ha!
resigned his Office The resignation
follows an exchange of kilograms
from Washington regarding the con
dition of the local federal prosecu
tors Office.
McNab's resignation, the acceptance
of which he requested by wire, is con
tanned in long telegram to President
Wilson. McNab says in the message
that he feels forced to resign because
III orders from the attorney general
thing his hands in the prosecution of
the DiggsICaminetti white slave cases
and the indictments against officials
of the Western Fuel company.
He states he received orders to
postpone action in these cases by
telegraph yesterday, and in spite of
his protest and statement to the attor-
ney general that efforts to tamper
with government witnesses in the
cases had been made.
''In bitter humiliation of spirit" the
message says, Il am compelled to
ackno wledge what | have heretofore
Indignantly refused to believe, name
ly, that the department of justice is
yielding to influence which will Grip
pie and destroy the usefulness of this
Office
Maury I. Diggs, former state archi-
tect, and Drew Caminetti, son of
former State Senator A. Caminetti, of
Jackson, Calf, who recently was ap-
pointed commissioner of immigration
10y President Wilson, eloped to Reno,
Nevada, last winter with two high
school girls of Sacramento, leaving
They. were brought back to CALIFORNIA;
and Indictments found against the
men under the Mann white slave act.
The message to the president, fol-
lows:
Woodrow Wilson.
President of the United States,
washington, D. c.
Il have the honor to tender my
resignation as United States attorney
for the northern district of California,
to take effect maodiatefs. Lam or
dered by the attorney general over
my protest to postpone until autumn
the trials of Maury Diggs and Drew
Caminetti indicted for a hideous
crime which has ruined two girls and
shocked the moral sense of the peo-
pie of California and this after | have
advised the department of justice that
attempts have been made to corrupt
the government witnesses, and friends
of the deefndants are publicly boast
ing that the wealth and political prom
inence of the defendants relatives
will procure my hand to be stayed
influence at Washington.
In these cases, two girls were
take ! from cultured homes, bullied
ard frightened in the face of their pro-
tests into going to foreign state,
were ruined and debauched by the de-
PENDANTS who abandoned their wives
and infants to commit the crime.
"On receipt of attorney generals
telegram, prepared my resignation to
take effect at the conclusion of the
rial of the Western Fuel directors and
The ]. G. Wilson stock brokers cases, {
both of which / had instituted and !
which wished to bring to success q
jul conclusion. Before I could send I
ny resignation. l received another b
elegram from the department order b
rg me to postpone the case against {
,ertain defendants of the Western t
fuel company and not to try them un- h
ess ordered by the department u
"In bitter humiliation of spirit am t
to acknowledge what have
heretofore Indignantly refused to be- "
ieve, namely, that the department of 6
ustice is yielding to influence which a
will cripple and destroy the usefulness I
J.. this Office. l cannot consent to oc- b
upy this position as mere auto o
nation and have the guilt or innocence G.
t rich and powerful defendants who
ave been indicted by unbiased grand 81
urors on overwhelming evidence de- u
ermined in Washington on represen- -
ations on behalf of the defendants :"
.ithout notice to me.
Il seem unable to convey to the
apartment the understanding of the
eriousness of the situation which this
ction will leave this Office. If the de-
in the future has to review
he finding Of grand juries and nullify
heir indictments, then this office Of
light as well be abolished for its Sc
motions will have ceased to exist of
Neither my sense of honor nor pub OK
C duty can permit me thus to destroy m
le prestige of this Office. da
With profound respect and regret
lat such step is necessary | have We
,e honor in view of my absolute in bu
bility to agree with the department, Sc
} ask that be by wire Immediately co
5lieved from duty in order that the eff
apartment Of justice may be per- pr
Tilted to carry out its policy in these tai