The Cairo bulletin., 1913-08-13
WARR|NCTONC|RL
TELLS STORY IN
WH|TESLAVECASE
Relates How She and Lola Norris
Went to Reno With Diggs
and Caminetti.
NEVER FIINCHED ON STAND
WAS QUITE MISTRESS OF SELF

San Francisco, Aug. IA court
room crowded from rail to doors
sat in hushed expectancy today
while Marsha Warrington picked
her way slowly to the witness
stand. Ii was the climax OF the
case which the government is pre-
Hen.ing against Maury |. Diggs, for
mer state architect OF California,
who is accused under the Mann act
OF transporting girl for immoral
purposes from Sacramento, Cal. to
Reno, New, where he left Wife and
babies.
Court adjourned with the story at
the point where the party of four.
consisting of Diggs. +. Drew Cami-
netti and Lola Norris, left the train
at Rcuo,
The girl swore she saw the tickets
delivered to the conductor.
Counsel for the defense objected
70 the introduction of the tickets as
evidence on the ground that the wit
ness could not identify them as the
tickets that had been given. The
objection was overruled.
Questions and answers prelimt-
nary to following this point dealt
with Introduction upon the scene OF
Lola Norris and Caminetti, the lat
ter to be tried on a similar charge,
both of whom were with them at
the bungalow in Reno.
The witness swore that she left
Sacramento under the threat OF ex-
posure and only on a promise of
marriage. She narrated how she
and Diggs had occupied the lower
berth and their companions the up
per berth in the Pullman car en-
route to Reno
other Witnesses told of the arrest
at Reno and the condition of the
bungalow as found by the Reno
chief of police.
Tomorrow the Warrington girl
will conclude her testimony, and
after she has been cross examined
Lola Norris will follow.
The only indication of the tactics
to be taken up by the defense has
been the attempt to introduce testi-
mony which Judge Van Fleet has
repeatedly ruled out.
Miss Warrington is a stri*ngly
pretty blonde OF twenty and when
she walked mp the aisle today it
was necessary for her sto brush
Diggs shoulder. He did not raise
his head and she did not finch.
During the hour and twenty min
utes that she was on the stand the
defendant never took his eyes from
her face. Not once did he allow
her gaze to meet his and she was
soon quite mistress of herself and
OF the situation.
Leaving the stand he walked
coolly toward her chair near a. U.
S. Marshall.
Miss Warrington said, in the be-
ginning of her testimony, that she
was twenty years of age and lived
with her father and step-mother
Her mother died when she was five
years old, she said
Il have known Diggs since last
September and we We're close
friends
Two weeks before we left for
Reno, while out in his car with
Lola and Caminetti he told me
there was a scandal to be published
about the four of us and that We
had to leave town. was sur.
prised but he said we would have
to go.
Miss Norris was told the same
thing and Caminetti Joined Digg,
in urging that we leave immedi.
ately."
They told us we would be ar
rested and subjected T. the thirt
degree.
Did you know Diggs and Cami
netti were married at the time?"
"Yes, and Miss Norris knew i
too"
"Diggs told me that his relation
with his wife were not the best ant
that he was unhappy and wante,
to leave her. He said he had affec
tion for me, that he cared for m
more than he did for his wife an,
/ believed him. lie kissed me an
discussed marriage with me an,
said he would get divorce an,