Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-09-03
Marsha Warrington and Lola
Norris Are Chief Witnesses
IeStiBIng for Prosecution
Hndor Mann Act
GIRL TELLS STORY OF
HER EL0PEMENT
Wife and Mother of Defendant
Listen to SaIaciouS Details
Resulting in EScapade 10
CIty of Reno,

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SAN Francisco, sept Except for
% tgV minutes of minor testimony to
he introduced tomorrow. the govern.
ment completed today its case against
I. pfcw Cammotu. whom ID socks on
four counts to prove guilty of violat.
ing the Mann white slave traffic ac,
2 ht transporting Lola Norris for inn
moral purposes from her home In
sacramento 10 Reno, New
Marsha Warrington and Lola Nor
ris were the chief figures OF tho day.
Miss Warrington absolutely reaffirmed
for the benefit of the government thn
responsibility of Diggs for her down
tull Champagne had been served In
Digs office II guess" she said.
shumefaccdly Il was intoxicated"
Lola Norris repeated more fully
than in the Diggs trial tho story of
her relations with Caminottl. Neces-
sariF the government bore more per
sonolly and more particularly on tho
part she ana Caninettl PLAYED in the
determinations and acts Of the -four
of them, and the cross examination
dWclt more heavily on her share in
the responsibility for her own down
faH The wifs and mother Of the
defendant listened closely while Cnml-
netu coached mis- lawyers 10 ensnaring
questions pges was In attendance,
as has boon his wont, since the trial
ut his Companlon bcgan,
So Ear as the wlfe's face went. the
testimony lcft her unslirrcd There
was no play ut emotion as she heard
the slip of a girl who stole her hus-
band tcl how he had pressed love
ON her promising to marry hor when
hc should have obtained divorce.
WAS there anything said about
marriage before March /" she was
asked The clopemcnt did not take
place until the early morning Of March
10 and In the meanwhile there had
been trips To san Francisco. stockton,
san Jose and Jackson
"No," was the answer.
Marriage Game up for discussion on
sunday March o. THE day before
we left" she testified MIR. Caminetu
said his wifc would start action for
divorce at once and then we could be
married.
rho morality ana pronriety Of their
relationship came up elsewhere IN
cross-eXamination
II introduced MIR Camlnetu to my
people she testified, "under false
name, because didn't want them 20
know ! didn't think 1t the proper
thing to go ont with married man.
Then why I'D you Go with Cami-
ncttl"
Wei ! know il wos not proper
and il they had been living properly
IT might have made q difference.
dld not fccl that was doing her CMrs.
Camnott) so much Of nm inlHstice, as
hc told mo they were going to be
separated
Robert noyn for the defense. In
crosse examination Of the witness,
dWcll upon the return trip from Reno,
Didn't YOU ten District Attorney
Atkinson that you and Miss Warning
ton had occupied the snmc berth ON
the way to Reno"
"Yos
why did you try To protect Drew
nmnctt thone'
p would not believe what they told
me about prev's dcceNing me-not
ntil lator.'
You were SIN iu love with him
hon?"
tYos
iWhat orc your feelings toward him
now
The elrI hung her head and did not
lnswcr
DO you feel the same affection for
him 2"
There was another moment Of si-
onco before The answer came with
read aycrtcd NO
I'm this and other thorny passages
If the cross-eXaminauon, the essen
ials Of her story were not distorted
,r even deeply called IN question It's
'ssenco was that Camlnettl had terri
led her into leaving home by threats
If scandal; that Diggs had presented
he arguments. and Caminetti had fol-
owed them with personal persua
ion