Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-08-09
WHITE SLAVE HEARING
CONTINUED TUESDAY
NO COURT HELD TO-DAY. WHEN COURT
RECONvENES THE TWO GIRLS IN CUES.
ton WILL Be PUT ON THE STAND TO
GIVE THEIR TESTIMONY, ON WHICH
MUCH DEPENDS.

San Francisco, CALI, Aug 9.--No,
until court convenes again next Tues
day in the Diggs-C s-Caminetti slave
cases viii! come the vivid moments
for which crowds OF sensation hunt
Crs scrambled over each other yester
Gay, in the hope of penetrating to a
court room too small to hold them
On that day Marsha Warrington and
Lola Norris will tell of their flight
from Sacramento to Reno, on the
morning of March 10th, their three
days there in a rented bungalow and
the arrest that followed ending in
the present prosecution under the
Mann act of Maury Diggs and Drew
Caminetti, the two young men whom
the government charges transported
them there for immoral purposes.
The case pivots on the testimony Of
the two girls. 1t is they who must
make good the governments state
Tents of it's case, who must swear
that they We're frightened into leav-
ing their homes, against their desires
and Judgment, by threats of exposurea
that marriage was promised them,
and that they accepted transportation
lh that understanding.
The government does not conceal
its desire to mass this testimony. I'VE
wish," said counsel, that Miss War.
rington's testimony should be heard
in its entirety both on direct ana
cross examination. Our present inten-
ton is that she should take the stand
Tuesday and her testimony will be
followed by that of Miss Norris"
The presence Of the four at Reno
Vas established by their arrest What
the government has not yet proved
lard and fast is the manner in which
they got there, and who paid for the
tickets and since the Mann act makes
it felony to transport women from
one state to another for immoral pur.
poses it is precisely this point that
must be settled, as Judge Van Fleet
made plain yesterday when he held
that the character OF the girls was not
il issue
Besides the testimony which the
government hopes to get on this point
from both young women, there are
the letters which the government has
said it will show Diggs wrote to
Marsha Warrington, safter the return
6Nhorting her to stand firm and con.
fess nothing. Theodore Kytaka, a ]
Hand writing expert, testified today |
kat the hand writing of a letter
SHOWN was the same as that of the I
;hecks and notes previously intro.
iuced by the vice president of tlfi |
sacramento bank, in which Diggs kept
lis deposits. Although one Of these
etters was produced in court yester
tay, its text did not become known.
Again the court showed it's atti.
ude toward the construction of the
statute and the issue at bar when Ii
ut short the testimony of Mrs Kate
loore, a neighbor, who had been M
'ited by "Enright, " CDiggs) to meet
# music. The object of the defense,
Devlin explained, in bringing
ut this testimony and that of A. j.
1urgen, the real estate clerk, who
ad rented the bungalow, was to
low that there had been no depres
ion, evidencing coercion.
Il don't see" broke in Judge Var
'leet, the materiality of any q1es:
ION of coercion. don't see that II
material whether the girls We're
elected or lively" j.,
The jury may see the materiality.'
ffered Devln.
Il think the jury will not see the
'ateriality of anything" pronounced
le court, that the court instructs
ZEN is immaterial -