Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-06-21
RESIGNS HIS OFFICE
SAYS ORDERS OF ATTORNEY
GENERAL ARE CONTRARY
TO RIGHT PROCEDURE.
WHITE SLAVERS FAVORED
HE DECLARES ALSO THAT WEST
ERN FUEL CASES ARE BE.
ING RETARDED.

San Francisco, June II. United
States District Attorney John L. Nc
Nabb has resigned his office. The res
ignation follows an exchange Of tele-
grams with Washington regarding the
condition Of the local federal prose
cutor's office.
McNab's resignation, the accept
anee Of which he requests by wire, is
contained in a long telegram to Pres
ident wilson McNab says in the
message that he feels forced to re-
sign because of orders from the at
toney general tying his hands in the
prosecution of the Diggs.Caminetti
white slave cases and the indict-
ments against officials u the West
ern Fuel company.
He states he received orders to
postpone action in these cases by
telegraph yesterday and in spite Of
his protest and statement to the at
torney general that efforts to tamper
with government witnesses in the
cases had been made.
In bitter humiliation Of spirit.
the message says, 4 am compelled
to acknowledge what l heretofore in
dignantly refused to believe. namely,
that the department Of justice is
yielding to influences which will Grip
pie and destroy the usefulness Of
this office"
Maury /. Diggs, former state archi-
teet, and Drew Caminetti, son Of
former State Senator A. Caminetti Of
Jackson, Calf, who recently was
appointed commissioner Of immigra-
tion by President Wilson, eloped to
Reno, Nevada, last winter with two
high school girls Of Sacramento, leav-
ing their wives and babies behind
them. They were brought back to
California, and indictments found
against them under white slave act.
The message to the president fol
lows
Woodrow Wilson, president Of the
United states. Washington, D. c.:
q have the honor to tender my
resignation as United States attor-
ney for the northern district Of Cal
ifornia, to take effect Immediately.
l am ordered by the attorney general,
over my protest, to postpone until
autumn the trials Of Maury Diggs
and Drew Caminetti indicted for a
hideous crime which has ruined two
girls and shocked the moral sense
of the people Of California. and this
after | have advised the department
of justice that attempts have been
made to corrupt the government wit
nesses, and friends Of the defendants
are publicly boasting that the wealth
and prominence Of the defendants
relatives viii procure my hand to be
stayed through Influence from Wash
ington
In these cases two girls were
taken from cultured homes, bullied
and frightened in the face Of their
protests to going to foreign state,
were ruined and debauched by the
defendants. who abandoned their
wives and infants 10 commit the
crime.
ION receipt Of the attorney gem
erals telegram i prepared my resig
nation, to take effect at the conelu-
sion Of the trial Of the Western Fuel
directors and the ]. c. Wilson stock
brokers cases, both Of which ] had
Instituted ana which / wished to
bring to a successful conclusion. Be
fore could send my resignation /
received another telegram from the
department ordering me to postpone
the case against certain defendants
Of the Western Fuel company not to
try them unless ordered BY the de-
partmenf.