Arizona republican., 1913-08-09
Preliminary Evidence is Be ing Introduced and Rul- mgs Made, But Morbid Crowds Await Appear ance of Girl Witnesses
WILL TELL THEIR
 STORIES TUESDAY
The Government Must Show Who Bought Transporta- tion for Marsha Warning ton and Lola Norris to Prove Climinalitv
ASSOCIATED PRESS D1sPATcH1

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. S.-Straight {down posted path. the order -t proof rolled in the Diggs white slavery trial today. without halt, and with tout {, thrill Not until the court con venes again next Tuesday will come the story for which the crowds of sen sation hunters scrambled over each tother this morning in the hope of penetrating to the court room, too small to hold them.
 Marsha Warrington and Lola Norris will tell that day, counsel for the gov 1 ernment stated, of their flight from
 Sacramento to Reno on March 10 their three dHys residence in a fur nished bungalow and their arrest that followed. ending with the present prosecution under the Mann act of Maury l. Diegs and Drew Caminetti. the two young men whom the gov crnment charges transported them there for immoral purposes.
 Naturally the case pivots on the testimony of the two girls. It is they .Nyho must make good the governments statement of its case who must swear that they were frightened into leaV- ling home against their desires ana Judgment by threats of exposure and
 a marriage promised them and accept Ied transportation with that under ieJanding The witnesses today estab- llished nothing new or vital to the lease.
 .EVe wish" said the counsel that Miss Warringtons testimony be heard lin it's entirety both on the direct and #cros~ examination. Our present in =tention is that she take the stand on Tuesday and her testimony be fol- flowed by that of Miss Norris.
 < Pullman conductor "thoQght' he .recocnized DigSs as the man from
 whom he had taken tickets for four
 on the morning of the tenth between iSacramento and Reno and to whom
 he had sold T sleeping car state room. He was not pressed for more positi"e
 identification.
 The porter of the ear remembered "a party of four occupied the state room in question and he was entirely positive he had been adequately tip
 ped. but would not swear to the idel- -ification of either Diggs or Caminet'l'
 A hotel clerk at Reno was more
 specific. He sWore he saw both the
 defendants registered under assumed
 names at his house with the two young women, as men and wives. c. c. Johnson. d umberman, had taken
 q drink with the two girls at Reno. : They drank lemonade. grocer $ iaeliveryInan had carried orders to the bungalow after accepting them
 from Diggs and the government had more testimony of the same sort
 The presence of the four at Reno. l however. was established by their ar ; rest. What the government has not ] Vet proved in d hard and fast man
 ner is how they got there a1Rt who
 paid for the tickets, and since the ! Mann acts makes it a felony to 2 transport women from one state to = tanother for immoral purposes, pre- 3 ciseIy this point must be settled as [ Judge Van Fleet made plain yeSter- l day when he held that the cFtracter l oI the girls is not an issue. [ Both the young women are relied . on to support the prosecution with 2 detailed statements which the eVl- ' deuce of cancelled tickets dates, and ' che recollection of conductors and the } porter will corroborate.
 7 Then there are letters which the ' government said it will show DigSs . wrote 10 Marsha Warrington after } their return exhorting her to stand
 firm and confess nothing. Theodore . Kytka, d handwriting expert. testi- | fled today the handwriting of let . ter shown him is the same as that Q on checks and notes previously iden- tified by the vice president of I Sacramento bank in which DIggS . kept deposits. Although one Of these . letters was produced in court today e it's text did not become known. Again : the court showed it's attitude toward Y the construction of the statute and | the issue at the bar when he ordered @ the testimony of Mrs. Kate Moore, a t reighbor. who had been invited by : .'Enrignt Diggs" to meet his wife : and share in an evening of music.
 | The object of the defense attorney t DeveIin explained in bringing out this O testimony and that Of A. J Morger. II d real estate clerk who rented the Il bungalow. was to show there had $ been no depression evidencing coerc- f ion.
 e ,.I don't see" broke in Judge Van e Fleet the materiality of any question : of coercion, and don't see that it is r material whether the girls were de- Y iected or lively"
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