Arizona republican., 1913-08-03
The Cases of Caminetti and Diggs Will Be Begun to Move In United States Court in San Fran cisco.
DEFENDANTS CRIME
 A NATIONAL ISSUE
Things So Turned That At { torney General McRcy- holds of President Will sons Cabinet Became Seriously Involved.
Especial to The Republican,

Especial to The Republican, SAN FRANCISCO. Aug 2-Ev-
 erything is in readiness for the be- ginning of the trial on Monday of 1 the celebrated Diggs- -Caminetti white slave case, which developed into a cause celebre when it was made
 the medium for an attack on the official conduct of Attorney General McReynOIds and incidentally involved the Wilson administration in criti- Cism The fact that the Republican members of the House of Represen- tatiVes are expected to bring the case mp for debate at the first op- portunity will cause the trial to be followed with additional interest. The case had it's beginning last March, when Drew Caminetti and Maury Diggs. the defendants, are all leged to have cloped with Marsha Warrington and Lola Norris. two high school fraternity girls of Sacra- mentO. The clopmcnt led to the ar rest and indictment of the two young men on charges of white slavery.
 The case attracted considerable at tention at the time because of the prominence of the defendants fam lilies. Diggs is a nephew of M3rshaH Diggs, once member of California's senate a man of wealth and strong political connection. The younger Diggs was state architect until re- gently and lived in Sacramento. He lis ? years old and has had the reputation of being a high roller"
 Caminctti is the son of A Cam inetti, former state senator, and re- Icently appointed commissioner of inn migration by President Wilson. Drew Cominetti, the defendant, vas a non commissioned officer of the National Guard of California and was clerk in the office of the state board of control until March last. lie is 27 years old.
 Diggs and Caminetti have long been intimate friends. Both are married and have families.
 Under the names of Fisher and Whitman, 1t is alleged that Diggs and Caminetti began to court the Norris and Warrington girls last win ter. Finally. things went so far that when the real identity of the men was discovered by the girls, the re- lations of the four did not break off. It was after this that the plan to leave the city began to take Ishape-the journey that was to land the two couples in the Federal net under the white slave law.
 once upon the train, the girls gave themselves up to the plans for the elopcment and ceased to rebel. The four travelled in one stateroom. on arrival at Reno, Nev., in the carly morning the party went to a hotel. Four days later the two couple were arrested living together in a bunga- low at Reno
 All Sacramento was aroused over ] the elOpement, and fearing possible violence, Diggs and Caminetti were l smuggled into the city in automo- | piles upon their return. mob wait i ed for them at the railway station,
 but the police succeeded in protect
 ing the two men.
 United States District Attorney
 John l.. McNab went to Sacramento
 and made a personal investigation of
 the case. After the two men were indicted on charges of white slavery leading citizens all over ,he state ap- pealed to the district attorney to take early action in the case.
 The case was put on the calender of May 19, ready to be set for trial in June. Thereafter it was postponed from time to time until matters were brought to a head on June p by the resignation Ot District Attorney Me Nab. Tn telegraphng his resignation to President Wilson Mr McNab said:
 "I am ordered by the Attorney Gen
 eral over my protest to postpone un-
 til autumn the trials of Maury Diggs land Drew Caminetti, indicted for a hideOus crime which has shocked the
 moral sense of the people of Cali
 fornia, and this after I have advised the Department of Justice that at tempts have been made to corrupt
 the government witnesses. and friends
 of the defendants are publicly boast ing that the wealth and political
 prominence of the defendants reIa-
 tives will procure my hand to he
 stayed through influence at Wash
 ington.
 Attorney General McReynolds and Secretary of Labor Wilson, the latter f brought into the case by the fact that the elder Caminetti, as com
 missioner of immigration. was one f of his subordinate officials denied f that any influence had been brough
 to bear upon them to obtain post , ponement of the Diggs- Caminett
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