Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-08-04
NOTED CASES WILL Be
IN COURT TO MORROW
Said That Politics Will Play Little
Part in Trial Of Diggs and Cam
inetti on Slavery Charge
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE.

San Francisco, Aug. 4.-According to
the predictions of the attorneys on
both sides, politics will play little
part, as far as the jury is concerned,
in the trial of the Diggs.Caminetti
white slavery cases, the first of which,
that against Maury 1. Diggs, charged
with violation of the Mann act in TAX
ing Marsha Warrington, aged 20, from
Sacramento to Reno, will begin before
United States Judge Van Fleet here
tomorrow.
The Diggs case is to be tried first
because it is declared by Special Pros
ecutors Matt 7. Sullivan and Theodore
Roche to be the stronger, .Diggs being
alleged to have financed the elope-
ment of Miss Warrington and himself,
Drew Caminetti and Lola Norris to a
bungalow near Reno, where they were
arrested
Diggs will be defended by Attorneys
Robert T. Devlin and Marshall B.
Booth, both former United States dis.
trict attorneys; Nate Cogslan and S.
Luke Howe.
Roche was in conference today with
Miss Warrington and Miss Norris, both
of whom were by him declared to be
willing witnesses against the two men.
Diggs and Caminetti are also in San
Francisco, but remain in close seclu-
sion.
Will Assail Character.
The defense, it is believed, will rest
largely on an attack upon the charac-
ter of the two girls, although, under
the Mann act, such testimony would be
absolutely immaterial.
"The only value of such testi.
mony," said Attorney Roche, antici.
pating the line of defense, "wOuld be
to tend to discount the showing by the
girls that they had been coerced."
'I anticipate that politics will cut
little figure in these trials, as far as
the jury is concerned" said Matt L.
Sullivan, and his prediction was con.
Cured in by Roche. "We are going to
present these cases in such shape that
the jury would be ashamed to 60 home
and confront their wives and daughters
with the admission that they allowed
these men to 60 free.
The trial of F. Drew Caminetti, son
of United States Commissioner General
of immigration A. Caminetti, will i'm
mediately follow that of Diggs. Each
case is expected to consume about q
week.
After these have been disposed of
Charles B. Harris, attorney for Diggs
will be tried for attempted subornatior
of perjury in connection with these
cases, the charge being that he at
tempted to persuade a girl to have the
Warrington and Norris girls state that
they had paid their own fares to Reno
Former United States District Attor
ney John L. McNab, who resigned be
cause Of alleged pressure from Wash
ington to have him delay the cases tc
their jeopardy is giving Attorney
Sullivan and Roche every assistance.
Venire Of 100 to Be Used
The regular venire of 100 will bt
drawn to get the jury for all these
cases, as well as that Of the Western
Fuel short weight charges. Of the We
nirmen, SO are associated with big cor
porations and 40 are prominent club
men Of San Francisco, mere handful
representing the middle class of arti
sans and laborers.
Mury I. Diggs, former state archi
tect, is the scion of a wealthy sacra
mento family, his father at one time
having been state senator Both he
and Caminetti are married, and have
families. The girls, Marsha Warning
ton and Lola Norris, are prominent in