The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-24
THEY ELOPED
TO RENO, NEV.
What the camenlttl Case is Which
<kses Resulted In Some Excitement
In the White
House.
GIRLS FLAGS ARE FLUTTERING
TWO FOOLISH
Left Home With Married Men and
Were Arrested and Brought Back
to Stand
Trial.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
SACRAMENTO, Calf, June "a
Secluded in their homes and awaiting
summons to appear in San Francisco
against Maury Diggs and Drew Cami-
netti indicted on white slavery
charges, pretty Martha Warrington
and Lola Norris, high school frater-
nifty girls, who eloped with the young
men in March, are apparently little
concerned over the latest develop
ments in their cases, when the resig-
nation OF U. s. District Attorney Nc
Nab caused country wide interest in
their affairs.
The girls are 10 years old and both
were socially prominent before their
flight with Caminetti and Diggs to
Reno, New.
Il cant see that It's anybody's
business but our own" declared Miss
/ Warrington at Reno on the night OF
their discovery. Since their return
here both girls have taken the same
attitude In refusing to discuss the
case and awaiting the time when
4 they will take the stand in a crowded
court room nnd tell the story OF their
A trip Miss Warrington is vivacious
4 blonde. Is the daughter OF 7, H. War
Z rington, local agent of the Santa Fe
:, railroad She accompanied Diggs
Miss Norris is quiet and inclined K
! be retiring and has been close frient
tof Miss Warrington for several years
She is. the daughter of Edward Nor
ris, real estate man, formerly EN-
ployed by the South Pacific railway
as head train dispatcher. Both Briggs
and Caminetti are married Cami
netti is here awaiting the calling o.
the case. His wife and children are
at his fathers home at Jackson, II
Amador county. At the time OF the
elopement, his youngest child was ST,
weeks old. Diggs, with his wife and
child are at Berkeley.
Since they parted here, calmly ant
without show of emotion afte- thei
return from Reno. the four have no
met Before they returned, they wer.
temporarily placed In jail at Reno.
'T wonder If my wife is thinking
of me-" remarked Diggs, more thar
once. Camenitti seemed more con
cerned about his baby. "I am anxious
about my baby he said. II think m.
wife will forgive everything.1
The four were arrested In bunga
low at Reno, three days after the,
arrived The officers who arreste
them were forced to walt until tn
quartette could don clothes befor
they could be taken to the police sta
tion. Upon his arrest Camenitti said
zone more day and you would neve
have seen US. We were going up int
the hills for good" All Sacrament
were aroused over the elopement an
fearing possible violence Diggs an
Caminetti were smuggled into the cit
in autos upon their return. A mo
awaited them at the railway station
but police succeeded in protectin
] the youths.
At the time OF the elopemen'
Y charges were fled against both me
1 in the Sacramento county courts, an
a 1t is possible that these will be pre-
e sented at once, if the federal trial
0 are further delayed. A felony charg
j. was placed against Biggs, alleging tn
a desertion of his five year old darghte
i and another against Camenitti chars
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