Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-08-09
Government Must Show That
Young Women Were Trans
ported to Reno for Immoral
Purposes by Defendants,
NO SENSATIONS IN
TRIAL DURING DAY
Witnesses Called Give Per-
fu0CtOry Statements With
Little Definite Value to Side
Of Prosecution,

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down the posted path of the order of
proof rolled tho Diggs trial today
without halt and without thrill
Not until courl 1uutenes again next
Tuesday will come the vivid moments
for which crowds of sensation hunters
scrambled over each other this morn
ing in the hope of penetrating 10 a
court room too small To hold them.
uu that day Marsha Warrington and
Lola Norris win tell of their flight
from Sacramento to Reno, on the
morning of March 10th. their three
days there in rented bungalow and
the arrest that followed. ending in
the present prosecution under the
Mann act of Maury Diggs and Drew
Camnettl the two Young men whom
the government charges transported
them there for immoral purposes
The case phots on the testimony Of
he two girls. It is they who must
make good the governments state
ncnts Of ITS case who must swear
that they were frightened into lcay-
ing their homes against their desires
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Inc porter OF the car remembered
thai party OF -FOUR had occupied the
state room m question ana ne was
entirely positive That he had heen
adequately tipped but ne could not
Diggs or Caminetti.
A hotel clerk at Reno was more
specific He sWorc that he saw both
the defendants register under ass
sumcd names at his house with two
young women. as men and wives c.
.. Johnson, a lumberman, had taken
a drink with the two girls at Reno
&C lemonade. groccr's deliverymau
had carried orders 10 the bungalow.
aIter accepting them from Diggs. aud
the government has more testimony
OF the Same sort
But the presence Of t1e four M
Reno was established bv their arrest
What the government has not vet
proved hard ana fast is the manner
in which they got there. and who
paid for the tickets and since the
Mann act makes it felony to trans
port women from one state to am
other for immoral purposes. it is pre-
ciscy this point thar must be settled
as judge Van Fleet made plain yes
tcrday when he held that the char
acter of the girls was not in issue
Besides the testimony which the
government hopes TO get on this point
from both young wcmen, there are
the letters which the government has
said it viii SHOW Diggs wrote to
Marsha Warrington, after the return.
cXhortns her to stand firm ana con
fess nothing. Theodore Kytaka. a
hand writing expert, testified today
that the hand writing Of letter
shown was the same as that of the
checks and notes previously intro
duced by the vice president Of the
Sacramento bank in which Diggs kept