Arizona republican., 1913-09-04
Caminetti's Victim Admits That Story Told on Way from Reno Was Different from Her Sworn Testi- mOny
WAS LYING THEN
 TO SAVE BETRAYER
Defendants s Wife Tells of His Nervousness and His Sleeplessness Before the F'light-Ife Will Testify Today
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 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3.-LOIa Norris admitted today that she had
 given false testimony regarding her relations with r. Drew Caminetti. She was recalled to the stand to explain
 her first efforts to shield Caminetti and Maury I. Diggs, Immediately after their arrest at Reno She own cd frankly that she had not told the truth, and to that extent her credi hility as q witness and the value of her story to the government was shaken, but her explanation was that she lied to save man she loved and whom she then trusted.
 Mrs Caminetti followed her with testimony throwing interesting side lights on the eternal triangle but in the main it was repetition of what sine had previously told for Diggs at his trial She made a willing and even an eager witness for her hus- band.
 Tomorrow Caminetti will begin his personal defense with his own ac- count of how he happened, incident ally and accidentally, to leave his wife in Sacramento with a baby three weeks old, while he fled across the California line with Lola Norris to Reno. This conduct, the govern ment contends. coTA;tituted a felony that fell within the provisions of the Mann white slave act.
 The afternoon session began with character testimonials by number of minor witnesses, who on cross examination by the government ad- mitted knowledge of previous es- capades by the defendant.
 Then Lola Norris was recalled in the new role of witness for the de- fendant She admitted that on the train she told District Attorney At llinson. but not under oath, that she and Marsha Warrington occupied the same berth on the way to Reno; that she left Sacramento because of in the belief that her ab sence would make il easier for her parents, and that at Reno she and Marsha Warrington shared one bed room and the two men the other. This, she testified, was not true.
 The government undertook to eX- plain this contradiction.
 Why did you tell Atkinson that you and Miss Warrington occupied the berth together" asked Theodore Roche.
 Miss Warrington and I agreed to tell that to shield the boys" she said.
 Had you ever talked to Caminetti and Diggs before this as to what you would say?"
 Yes; Diggs told us to be sure to say that we girls stayed together I told Caminetti I'd stay by him. I wanted to protect my good name"
 Well, Miss Norris, don't you want protect your good name now?"
 If I tell the truth, don't see how I can"
 Mrs. Caminetti testified concerning | her husbands nervousness, sIeepIess- i ness and lack of appetite during the ! week before he left her. and she told | of her threats to carry their domestic | to the juvenile court
 'I told him I'd been to see Judge | Hughes she swore. and he re- piled. My God, girl, haven't I wor- ried enough?
 'He would not tell me the cause ! of his nervousness. When I was in | the hospital several weeks before. he ] was very attentive to me. and came | to see me every night. and some ! times several times a day. Before ! that, of course. we had spats. the l. same as everyone else has them ! had been told that he was going ] around with these girls I told him { that Mrs. DigGs and I had had sev- i eral conversations about it and had i been advised to bring suit against 1 MT. Warrington ic Miss Warrington 1 didn't stop going around with our hus- bands, and she bOasting Of it. We told both Of the girls and they said | they didn't care if the men were | married. They should worry was , what they said"
 On cross examination she denied ! that she had been to the state board | of control with complaints against 1 her husbands failure to support her | and her children
 TestifYing for the defense, C. A 1 Putnam, Sacramento newspaper | man, told how he assured Marsha l Warrington that his paper was not | on the point of printing a scandal ! about her
 D. T. Leitch. 9 Sacramento chauf- l feur, mortified Judge Van Fleet by ! telling bluntly how he heard Diggs 1 landlord. Diepenbrock. give him hell" 1 with sulphurcus embellishments
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