The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-07-08
N'NAB'S REPORT
MAKES PLEA FOR
CAN|NETT| TRIAL

knowledge of the almost incredible
deprayity of the Caminetti-Digg
white slave cases before he ordered
the postponement of the trials and
that he was implorcd by United
States District Attorney McNab of
San Francisco not to countenance
delay is revealed by the records
which were suppressed in the report
of the Attorney General to the
President and made public from the
White House and again later sup
pressed by the House Judiciary com
mittee.
! The hidden records furnish the
most vital part of the correspond
cnce in the notorious cases and
cry oud against the defense made
by the Attorney General, The,
brand his report TO the President as
an apa ~ently deliberate attemt to
mislead the public
made public for the first time, was
mailed to the Attorney General as
late as May 81, reaching here May
%, and was the final effort of the
prosecutors at San Francisco to con
vince Attorney General McReynolds
that scandal would follow she fail
ure to prosecute the cases promptly
Embodied in the report was an ac
count of the sensational abduction
Of the Norris and Warrington girl
by Diggs and Camnetti, which re
| yeals on the part OF the two mei
depths of depravity almost uabe
licvablc
In this report the Attorney Gen
eral was also informed of efforts
buy jurors and secure pcrjured tcs
timony for tho defendants. Th
complete report was before him whe'
he yielded to the pressure brongh
on him by Secretary of Labor VIII
son to postpone the trials in orde
to accommodate Commissioner 0
immigration Camminctu
Telegram Goes TO Lane.
In add lion to the McNab report
the Attorney Generals attention wa
called to attempts being made I
postpone the white slave trial'
through a te egram sent by c. I
McClatchy, editor of the Sacrament
Bee. to Secretary of the Intcrio
Lane. This telegram was delive~e
to the Attorney General and was he
fore him at the time heordered tn
trials postponed.
Tho suppressed correspondent.
shows that before Commissioner @
of Immigration Caminetti came
Weshingtou he asked United State.
Attorney McNabb to postpone hi
sons case and that McNab refused
After his arrival in Washingtc
Commissioners Caminetti, on May .
wrote to District Attorney McNa
again asking for postponement an
was again refused On May ; Con
missioner Caminctti telcgraphed tn
District Attorney once more askin
. continuance ard was refused !
/, tf7e 'aph On Juno Caminct
{ teIegrafhcd again and was a@ain r
fused continuance by letters az
dressed to linn and to Attorney Gen
cral McRcynolds. Then foliowe
the order from the Attorney Genera
= directing McNab to postpone the tw
q white slave cases until autumn,
+ F'o lowing is District Attorne
+ McNab's report to the Attorney Ger
:. eral, with the exception of the III
S printable portions:
5 "The defendants Diggs and Cam
- netti are jointly indicted in this dis
$ trict for conspiracy to violate tn
d white slave traffic act in inducin
two young women. Marsha Warrini
g ton and Lcola Norris to 20 frol
c-amento to the State of Nevadt
Diggs Record Shown
"The defendant Diggs was
- draughtsman in the office Of III
d state capitol in Sacramento. He
= married and has two children. II
E comes of 2 rich and powerful famil
f and his record has more than one
{ brought that f'mlly into disgrac
r But a short time before the actor
: hereinafter narrated he was inyOl'
! ed in a forgery charge. and for
g long time, by common repute, easi
s substantiated by evidence, he mail
tained what has H-cn uenominatt
e as private harem" at his rooms
+ a down town block in Sacrament
d Here, according to charges before m
l. he enticed may ,oung wome
Caminetti was MS bosom companio
: The defendant, C3ninetti. has
n vicious reputation for betrsyir
k young girls. and eve shocking i
Is stances which [ can produce to g
tablish this fact.
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