Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-08-27
D1GGs WAS FOUND GUILTY.
Convicted on Four CO UNITS. Maximum
Five Years Each Count.

san francisco, Aug. 21.-In elop-
ing with Marsha Warrington from
Sacramento, Cal, to Reno, Nevada,
Maury l. Diggs, former State archi-
tect Of California, was found guilty
OF violating the Mann act, which
makes 1t felony to transport women
for immoral purposes from one State
to another. This was the verdict
Wednesday night Of the jury that
tried him.
Five years on each count in the
Federal penitentiary is the maximum
penalty.
There were six counts in the in
dictment and the jury found YER
dict of guilty on the first four
The case went to the jury late to-
day with no attempt by the defense
to prove that Diggs did not trans
port Marsha Warrington across the
State line from Sacramento. Cal, to
Reno, New, or that they did not live
there for three days as husband and
wife.
These acts, it was admitted, had
been committed, but they did not
constitute violation of the Mann
act because they had not been done
with criminal intent. The trip to
Reno had been half an accident If
Diggs and Marsha Warrington, with
f. Drew Caminetti and Lola Norris,
their companions, had not missed an
earlier train they would have re-
manned within the State. and though
their offense against morality would
have been the same, they would not
have transgressed a Federal statute.
This defendant" asserted the
government prosecutor, did not
deny on the stand the truth of the
essentials we have shown here. He
had to admit them all. This defend
ant relies upon his own depravity and
licentiousness."
In seeking to establish that, the
trip was not premeditated and that
the two girls had not been induced
to take it by threats Of scandal or
one hand and promises Of marriage
on the other, Diggs willingly testi-
fed to his own misconduct and the
embarrassments, domestic and busl-
ness, into which it had led him.
Caminetti Faces Similar Fate.
San Francisco, Aug. 21.-With
Maury 1. Diggs, convicted and await
ing sentence for having violated the
Mann white slave act in transporting
Marsha Warrington from Sacramen-
to, CAL, to Reno, New, for immoral
purposes, the government turned it's
attention to-day to Diggs' companion
in n1asght, F. Drew Caminetti, indicted
for the same offense for having
taken Lola Norris on the excursion
to Reno.
Diggs, who was visibly shaken by
the jury's verdict last night, was re-
leased at midnight on $4,000 bail,
furnished by his father, I. P. Diggs,
and his uncle, Marshall Diggs. He
will be sentenced to the penitentiary
on September 2. Five years is the
maximum penalty on each count.
Friends OF Caminetti Gloomy.
Friends Of Caminetti were de-
pressed to-day over Diggs' convic-
tion and by the attitude of the court
toward that defendant Judge Van
Fleet, who also will try Caminetti,
said in his charge to the Diggs' jury:
"If you find that the defendant
and his companion, Caminetti, were
actuated in their departure, or flight,
from Sacramento by a fear of expos
ure or arrest, but that nevertheless
in taking these two girls along, there
existed the intention to subject them
to the immoral purpose charged, the
defendant Is guilty"
The testimony in the Caminetti
trial is expected to follow closely that
adduced for and against Diggs.
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