Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-08-15
D|GGS CASE IS
DRAWING TO
A CLOSE
THE GOVERNMENT CLOSES ITS CASE
TODAY IN the PROSECUTION
OF DIGGS ON The WHITE SlAV.
cry CHARGE. .==DEFENSE WILL
INTRODUCE TESTIMONY.
LOLA MORRIS PROVES
TO Be A GOOD WITNESS


government closed It's case this morn
ing against Maury l. Diggs, forme
tate architect of California with tn,
Testimony of Nellie Barton, frient
of Marsha Warrington, whom the gov
ernment charges Diggs transported
from Sacramento to Reno for purposes
! which the Mann act defines as a fel
ony.
/ Miss Barton testified that on March
%. while in her fathers bakery, she
was asked over the telephone to visit
/ the office of Charles S. Harris, an at
| torney. She complied
Diggs, whom she knew, introduced
her to Harris. This was after the
return of Diggs, Caminetti, Marsha
Warrington and Lola Norris from
Reno and their disgrace was common
talk.
"Mr. Diggs asked me what | thought
of the talk" Miss Barton testified.
II told him I though. the girls had
been foolish to GO
Not fools to go said Harris, hut
fools to get caught at it.
They told me warrants were to be
sworn ont. that Mrs. Diggs had left
her husband, that there was to be
prosecutions and that everything Mr..
Diggs was convicted of Marsha would
be convicted of; that they would suf-
fer alike.
"They told me that if Marsha would
only remember about the bungalow
at Reno and what Mr.. Diggs had told
her they could both be saved. Diggs
drew a diagram of the bungalow
showing the position of the two bed
rooms.
"'Be sure to tell her to say, he told
me. that she and Lola had the front
bedroom together and Cammetti md
I the rear room.
"Then he asked Harris what about
the berths and tickets. Mr.. Harris
told him the only thing she could say
was that she didn't know who paid
for them
81 agreed to go because they told me
CC. lHep tOlu Hlt II uiuh -he'i oii''
would be convicted and sent to Jail.
liked her. didn't want to see her
suffer, and | didn't think it wrong
then to try to help her.
Miss Barton told of the delivery OF
her message.
"What did Miss Warrington say"
"She said it was too late, that she
thought more Of her parents than any
body else and that she wouldn't do it,
Other questions brought out that
Diggs had subsequently tried to com
nuncate with her, but that she was
angry when she realized the use to
which she had been put, and that she
refused to see him or have word with
him.
Martin Beasley, of Sacramento, a
business associate Of Marsha Warning
tons father told of ACCOMMODATING
Chief Hillhouse of Reno to the bun
salow when the arrests were made.
The girls were hysterical, he said, cry
ing and laughing, and eager to know
v hat their parents would do with
hem, and if they would take them
back.
A telegram from F. F. Atkinson, as
5istant district attorney of Sacrament |
to county, was read, repeating a mes
sage from Judge Hughes Of Sacramen-
TO, whose testimony was desired, but
" ho is i'll in Eureka.
Judge Hughes sent word that no
complaint had ever been made to him
IS presiding officer o. the juvenile
court about either Marsha Warrington
,r Lola Norris.
Both girls have testified that Diggs
md Caminetti told them that com
plants had been made and that ar
,ests we're imminent. Fear of scandal
hey swore repeatedly was the determ-
hing motive that induced them to
consent to the trip to Reno. +
Attorneys for the defense were sur
,rised at the sudden resting of the
,uss their plans.
At the opening of yoday's session
ola Norris took the stand on cross
Examination Back and forth, across
md criss-cross, The witness was led
,ver the testimony she and Marsha
Warrington had already spread on the
ecord of the governments case
eainst Maury |. Diggs, former state
rchitect of California, under the Mann
hte slave traffic act.
Judge Van Fleet repeatedly warned
\ttorney Devlin of the defense that
is pursuit of "infnitesimal matters,
OF relative to the material issues of
he case was consuming time which
ater he might find valuable.
There was glimpse into the psy-
nology of the story when the we'll
hammered girl, of apparent refinement,
old how she had permitted herself
o be so much in the company of a
married man. Drew Caminetti was
nown to her parents, she testified as
,ir. Whitman, and Diggs as Mr.. Fisher.
why did you deceive your par
nts?' asked Devlin.
well, | knew Mr.. Caminetti and
tr. piggs were married." she said,
and | know that my parents would I