Arizona republican., 1913-09-18
Two Years i'll Federal Peni- tentiary for Former State Architect and Eighteen Months for His Compan- ion in Reno Escapade
AN APPEAL IS
 MADE AT ONCE
In the Meantime the De fendants Are Permitted Their Liberty Under Bail of $15,OOO and $1O,OOO Respectively
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 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1.-Two years in the federal penitentiary at Me-
 Neils island. Washington. and a fine of $2O0O Moury l. Diggs, former state architect of California. must pay for three days in Reno with Marsha War ringtOn, a Sacramento sorority girl. Eighteen months in the same prison and a fine of $1,5OO was the penalty imposed upon his friend and compan- ion. F Drew Caminetti, son of An- thony Caminetti, United States com missioner general of immigration, for a like offense. Camenetti eloped with Marsha Warrington's friend, Lola Norris
 Both stood under conviction of vio- lating the Mann white slave traffic act, although Judge Van Fleet in pro nOuncing sentence agreed with coun- sel for the defense that the statute was not intended by the author to cover such offenses as those admitted by the defendants
 Caminetti protested against both sentences as unjust. He cited a case which he said a man convicted in the same court of transporting girl from Oregon to California and hay ing placed her in a house of ill-fame in San Francisco had been fined s250 and was sentenced to six months.
 Contributions of society and the fan1- fly to the conditions surrounding the lapse of the two girls also came in for criticism by the judge. Lax pater- nal control roadhOuses, dead falls and lqucr underlaid the whole struc- ture of the case. he said. The girls came and went as they chose and they drank
 The usual motions for new trial and arrest of judgment were denied. The judge did grant. however, a stay of execution for ten days. during which the defendants will be out on bail fix ed al S15.OO0 and $1O,00O respectively. while counsel are perfecting an ap- peal to the United States circuit court Of appeals for a writ of reversible CT TOT which. if granted. will entail new trials
 The act makes it felony for a man to transport woman from the state to another for immoral pur- poses and it's popular designation as the white slave traffic act has in jected into the general undertaking of it. the courts explained. a feeling that the element of gain must be % contributing motive to the act for bidden and made criminal.
 Diggs and Caminetti made this general understanding their defense. AS far as they could. or the judge would permit they attacked the law setting up territorial morality" They did not deny their presence with the girls at Reno. but dtsclaim- ed any intent to sell them into lives of shame
 In designating the prison where the sentences should be executed. Judge Van Fleet first named San Quentin penitentiary. a state insti- tuition, but after listening to argu- ments in which the counsel for the defense quoted federal statutes and cases and showed there existed no precedent for the clause of the law forbidding the courts from specify ing county jail or states peniten- tiary instead of the federal peniten- tfary when the term to be served for more than one year and for less than one year a sentence in a cOun- ty jail was mandatory. The family preferred the county jail and Judge Van Fleet willing to show them con but not to the full extent of their desires When they objected to San Quentin, where Diges and