Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-13
GIRL rgsrlFlEs IN DIoas TRIAL
Says She and chum Wers cosrcsd
Into Elopins With Young Men.

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Into EIopins With Young Men.
San Francisco. Aug. IA crowd in
the court room heard Marsha War
rington tell her version of the trip
which she, Maury l. Diggs. Lola Norris,
and F. Drew Caminetti made to Reno,
which resulted in the indictment of the
two men under the Mann act and led to
a scandal which reached the floor Of
the national congress.
The girl swore that she and Miss
Norris were coerced into making the
trip by the two men, who used as their
chief argument the threat that unless
they left town the fathers Of the two
men would prosecute the girls and that
there were warrants out against them.
She said marriage was promised, altho
she knew both men already We're mar
ried.
Court adjourned with the story at
the point where the party Of four
stepped off the train at Reno The girl
swore that Diggs bought the railway
| tickets and paid for the drawing room
the tickets delivered to the conductor.
!; Miss Warrington, in beginning her
! testimony, said she was 90 years old
| mother.
| last September, and we were close
| friends" she continued. 1.-TWO weeks
| before we left for Reno. while Drew
| riding with Diggs in his machine. he
| told me there was scandal about to
| be published about the four Of us and
~,
! Miss Norris was told, and Caminet-
| ii joined Diggs in urging that we leave
| Immediately. They told us that he
| would be arrested"
Did you know that Diggs and Can't
netti were married at that timer" she
was asked.
Diggs told me his relations with his
| vie we're unpleasant. He said he
cared for me more than he did for his
| wife, and I believed him when he said
| he would get divorce and marry me.
Caminetti told Lola the same thing"
The witness was asked about threats
| of arrest.
1.-THE men told us Digs father and
Caminetti's father were going to prose-
cute US two.' she said. land that Diggs
| senior was giving an attorney named
| Harris large sums of money to keep
| the story out Of the papers. They
| said there would be warrants for us
and that we would be given the third
| degree.
1--WE said we could not go. I said
could not go away from father. that II
would kill him. Digs said it would
all come out anyway and that my father
would know sooner or later. and that
| we had better go. Miss Morris told them
! it would kill her mother, but they kept
urging us to go Immediately.
| ION Saturday. March s. Diggs called
Lola, Caminett and me to cafe, told
us his father was coming up from
Berkeley the following Monday to put
Caminetti in jail and have US prose-
cuted. He said we would have to leave
right away. We protested but after
three or four hours consented to go.
! 1.-The next day we tried to back out
We said we would just as soon stay and
take chances on the scandal. They told
US We could not back out and at mid
night we. went to the station. Diggs
told us to wait while he went over and
| bought the four tickets.
| I'VE got into a Pullman car and
Diggs engaged drawing room. He
paid the railroad conductor. I saw him
give the railroad conductor the tickets
for our trip to Reno. Miss Norris and
Caminetti took the upper berth and
| Diggs and had the lower.
eve arrived at Reno the next day
| the 10th-at about noon"