Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-08-08
DIGGS TRIAL IS
NOW UNDER
Way
HUNDREDS THRONG The COURT
ROOM AND ALL THE corridors
TO HEAR THE SOMEWHAT SALA.
CI0US DETAILS OF NOTORIOUS
WHITE SLAVE CASE.
MARSHA Warrington TO
TESTIFY THIS AFTERNOON

G much noturiety has attended the trial
OF Maury |. Diggs, under the Mann
, act, that the corridors of the federal
building We're choked with crowds to
, day an hour before the doors of the
court room opened
The United States marshal and his
deputies found it necessary to clear
a way by force. Nobody was injured
but there were crushed hats and
in the crowd.
Marsha Warrington, on whose testl.
mony interest focused. was not ex-
pected to take the stand for the gov.
ernment until late in the afternoon.
! The prosecution planned first to in
troduce further evidence from rail
way employees about the trip from
Sacramento to Reno. where Digss,
Caminetti. Marsha Warrington and
Lola Norris were arrested.
! Taking of testimony IN the trial Of
Maury 7. Diggs on the charge of ha'. /
| ing conspired to violate the federal !
white slave statute proceeded today |
with the prosecution proclaiming alb |
lsolute tidence of conviction BY |
reason Of Judge Van Fleets ruling
yesterday on the question of the char
acter of women in such cases.
IF Diggs bought the girls trans.
portatlon to Reno, the girls anteccd-
ents and the manner of their going
whether publicly or openly, or secret
y and clandestinely. can have no bear.
ing on the case said Judge Van :
Fleet, Even if the women were pub.
lie prostitutes, he said, that would
have nothing to do with the issue.
San Francisco, Cal, Aug. Sc. II.
Walbonrn, Pullman conductor, testi-
fed that on the morning of March ~. :
he accepted four railway tickets frcrl $
and sold drawing room to Reno from |
sacramento, to the taller of the two a
men in a mixed party of four. l.
Diggs and Caminett were asked to n
stand up
Il think took the tickets from and
sold the drawing room." said Wal F
1ourn, ito the taller of these two gen
lemen." Dggs is the taller.
Attorney Devlin objected that the h
Identification was not positive and v
hat the words II think suggested a tt
onjecture.
Judge Van Fleet ruled that II think re
vas merely an usual expression, Ii
'hlch man might employ from habit
'hen his convictions were in reality n
ositive Y
lhere was no attempt to press th,,
'ltness into more positive identified.
on. The prosecution expects to
rove by the testimony of the young
omen themselves that they were on
le train and feels that the conduc. nm
RS evidence will be sufficiently cor VIZ
,borated.
Court then adjourned until two
clock this afternoon.
Just before court adjourned yester
", Judge Van Fleet gave a rulins
at struck at the vitals of the case.
}. Peck, real estate dealer from
mo, whittier Maury l. Diggs ard 'ol
Drew Caminetti eloped with Mar ho
Warrington and Lola Norris from wh
alr homes in Sacramento, was on ua'
stand. In cross-examination the mas
tense sought to show tb,+ tho bro bet
low they occupied during their stay OIL
Reno was not on the outskirts of
city and had been rented with no by
w to sequestration and conceal lau
Mt Los
/ don't see," interposed Judge Van Uni
et, now 1t can make any differ. ing
'e in this case if they went there viii
My or secretly. Unless the gov- r.
ment can show that they went to
re for the purpose prohibited by tbe
Mann white slave traffic act ther don
case of the government fails. ro.o
N II the women were public pros. A
tes, If the defendant procured their h., !,
lsportatlon and accompanied them To,,
immoral purposes, the case of the -
ernment should stand"
heodore Roche, of special counsel ~.
The government, set forth baldiy D.
tersely in the closing hour Of the e..t ~,
rnoon sitting, what the prosecu-
would attempt to urOve. IF would
shown by documentary evidence ., -
the testimony of witnesses, ha au,n ,t,
the jury: 'ookl
That Marsha Warrington and :, on
Norris. one 20 years old and the 10 10 III
r 49, had been frightened by 'ies
ry |. Diggs and F. Drew Caminetti, iesa'
RED men with children, one IS
the other 27 years old, into MRS
ing Sacramento. lest scandal ey.
and criminal prosecution fol
Ne
That marriage had been prom. tives
after the two husbands should coo j
divorced their wives. Hama
That Camnetti raised the mon. sett
or the trip from Sacramento to noun'
). New. and that Diggs bought Lad
transportation and paid the Pull. atten
fares. what
That the four travelled as ma, Hama
couples, occupying the same state he {
on night train. beoar
That on arriving at Reno on the the s.