Arizona republican., 1913-08-20
Concluding Testimony of Famous White Slavery Case is Most Sensational and Courtroom is Crowd ed With Women
GOES TO THE
 JURY TO-DAY
Three Witnesses Are Heard on Last Day, Including Defendant, His Wife and Mrs. Caminetti, Whose Husband Faces Charge
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19.-Mrs. Maury l. Diggs sat today in the court room where her husband was charged as a white shaver and heard him testify under hostile questions that he had been Unfaithful to her with Marsha Warrington in her own bed room and twenty minutes later herself took the witness stand to testify in his behalf. Then the gov ernment and defense rested and the government began it's arguments to the jury. The case goes to the jury tomorrow.
 Three witnesses held the stand to- day. Maury Diggs occupied the fore noon with his own account of words
 and deeds and fears that led up to
 his final flight to Reno with Marsha Warrington accompanied by Drew
 Caminetti and Lola Norris. their close
 friends Caminetti will be prosecuted when the jury makes up it's mind
 about Diggs, regardless of conviction, acquittal or disagreement The other witnesses were Mrs. Caminetti and
 Mrs. Diggs. Both were questioned
 briefly, in substance sustaining the
 sleeplessness, cratic and nervous be-
 haviOr that characterized their hus-
 bands for the week beginning March
 21 ending in Reno.
 Mrs Diggs told how she had gone
 with her troubles to her father-in-
 law Mrs. Caminetti tried to tell
 how she had threatened to inter-
 view Judge Hughes of the juvenile
 court, but inasmuch as she did not go until after the arrest in Reno the
 judge held her testimony immaterial. Diggs was the central figure of Jux ad men stood for two hours without luncheon in the corridors of the fed eral building to hear his concluding testimony in the afternoon. For the first time since the trial began, more women were in attendance than men. By early attendance the men were in the majority during the forenoon. but they capituIated to hunger and i when they returned the women had their seats.
 We heard Diggs was hand sOme' the women whispered among themselves. We want to hear what he has to say for himself and anyway the girls were just as bad as him." When Diggs was done with his story he and Marsha Warrington and Lola Norris have in turn set out to relate, has been told inside and out, upside down, backwards and for wards Chiefly though his story was notable for it's omissions.
 His lawyers did not attempt to have him deny he bought transporta- ton to Reno. paid for Pullman berths and was intimate with Marsha Warrington in Nevada. All stress was laid, not on what he did, but what he intended to do. Not a word was said about what happened at | Reno.
 The case closed with no character witnesses introduced and no attempt made to blacken the reputation of the girls before they met Diggs and Caminetti Under the rulings of Judge Van Fleet evidence of that na- ture was immaterial The -Gury was there merely to determine "did Diggs
 cross the state line with Marsha Warrington, did he pay her way, and did he go for immoral purposes?" l What blackening of character was done, Diggs did himself. He testified freely to the plight into which he 1 had worked himself and there was | this bit of testimony about his com ranion and the errors of his going
 Relate the facts concerning the visits of Lola Norris. Caminetti and Miss Warrington and yourself to l your home that night early Tn Janu- ary during the absence of your wife.
 Did you take Miss Warrington into
 your wife's bedroom?" he was asked. | Miss Warrington took me in," he | replied.
 1 Thereupon Diggs testified with dis play concerning Miss Warrington's alleged gloating because of her tri-
 1 umph over his wife.
 | Mrs. Diggs was not forced to listen
 to all these details. Part of the time | she stood outside the door waiting
 | to be called. But an ordeal was in ! store for her. She had to submit to ! a curious comparison of women, be- ltween herself and Marsha Warning
 ton, who sat for forty minutes at I the governments counsel table while
 the courtroom stared first at the
 mistress and then at the wife.
 Mrs. Diggs is a strikingly pretty I brunette. Her manner is gentle and
 refined Her voice is sweetly modu-
 l lated and her words well chosen. l Neither she nor Mrs. Caminetti were
 I cross examined.
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