Arizona republican., 1913-09-11
Defendants Are Accused of Having Attempted to In fluence Testimony of Two Girls in White Slave Case Just Ended
EVIDENCE WILL
 BEGIN TODAY
Marsha Warrington and Nellie Barton Will Be the Principal Witnesses and Government Expects to Finish This Afternoon
TAssoCIATED PRESS DIsPArCHl

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 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1O- Twelve jurors were chosen today to try Maury l. Diggs and Attorney Charles E. Harris on charges of subornation of perjury growing out of the white slave case in which Diggs was recently convicted The selection of the jury was completed just before Judge Van Fleet ter minated the session of the United States district court for the day and the testimony will begin tomorrow
 We should be able to rest our case by o'clock tomorrow" said Prosecutor Matt Sullivan tonight Marsha Warrington and Nellie Bar ton will be the chief witnesses for the government"
 The prosecution will attempt to prove that Maury Diggs and his at torney, Harris. asked Miss Barton to intercede with her friend, Marsha Warrington, following the Reno trip with a view of having the Warning ton girl so color her testimony that Diggs might escape conviction under the Mann act.
 Besides endeavoring to shake the testimony of Marsha Warrington and
 
 pected to introduce a number of character witnesses on behalf of At torney Harris, who is one of the best known lawyers in Sacramento. After Judge Van Fleet, upon re- quest of Prosecutor Matt Sullivan and Attorney Woodwork postponed the sentence of both F. Drew Cam inetti and Maury I. Diggs until Mon day upon the opening of court in the morning, the judge called Juror William A Heister before him and severely criticized him for the re marks Heister made following the Caminetti case.
 Heister at first denied making the statements attributed to him and a subpoena was ordered issued for re porters to whom he had given an in terview. Later. however the juror 1 explained his attitude to the judge who ordered Heister's name stricken l from the panel and dismissed him after characterizing him as "absO- lutely unfit to sit with intelligent l jurors in a case where a mans lb- erty is al stake"
 i Little information as to the nature the defense will be was produced by the selection of the jurymen. Ac- ] quaintance with any one now in the | United States district attorneys of , flee or that of former United States District Attorney McNab was con sidered sufficient ground for chal- | lenge by the attorneys for the de- 1 fendants. Each prospective juror i was also closely questioned as to what effect the recent conviction of : Diggs on another charge would have cn his mind during the trial. Both sides used up all the challenges be- fore the jury box was finally filled. 1 Charles B. Harris and Maury Diggs sat beside their attorneys and ] Harris offered frequent suggestions. ] Mrs Harris was seated beside her husband all day, but Mrs Diggs was not in the court room. l. P. DiggS, i father of the defendant, was pres ! ent during most of the session. A i crowd of nearly fifty persons wait ed in line before the opening of the morning session in the expectation
 of seeing Diggs and Caminetti sen
 tenced Most of them left after that
 event was postponed Attorneys for both sides have expressed a belief
 that the case will be finished this week. +1