The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-20
MAURY |, D|GGS
TERMS FLIGHT
AN ESCAPA ABE
Like Adam of Old, Defendant
in White Slave Case En-
deavors to Shift Blame
to the Woman.
SAYS SHE WOULD
NOT LET HIM GO
Declares That He Wanted to
Leave Sacramento Without
Girl, but She Would
Not Permit 1t.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19-Who
will limit the devotion of a wife7 Mrs.
Maury Diggs sat today in the court
room where her husband stands charged
as white SLAYER, heard him testify un-
der hostile questions that he had been
unfaithful to her with Marsha War
rington in their own apartments and
twenty minutes later herself took the
witness stand to testify in his behalf.
With her evidence the defense and
the government alike rested and the
government began its arguments to the
jury. By stipulation Of Judge Van
Fleet each side has two hours and twen-
ty minutes in which to convince the
jury and the case will be in it's hands
late tomorrow afternoon.
Caminetti Comes Next.
Three witnesses held the stand to-
day. Maury [. Diggs occupied the fore
noon with his own account Of the
words, deeds, and fears that led UP TO
his final flight to Reno with Marsha
Warrington, accompanied by Drew
Caminetti and Lola Norris, their close
friends. They were arrested in Reno,
New, brought back to Sacramento, and
the two men charged by the federal
government with violation of the Mann
act, which makes it felony to trans
port women from one state to another
for immoral purposes.
Caminetti will be prosecuted, an
nuonced the government today, when
the jury has made up its mind about
Diggs, and regardless Of whether it
finds him innocent or guilty, or dis
agrees.
Wives on the Stand.
The other two witnesses were Mrs.
Caminetti and Mrs. Diggs. Both were
questioned briefly and the substance OF
their discourse was Of the sleepless-
ness, cratic, nervous behavior, and air
of worriment that characterized their
husbands for the week beginning March
3 and ending in Reno,
Mrs. Diggs told how she had gone
with her troubles to her father-in-law.
Mrs. Caminetti tried to toll how she
had threatened to interview Judge
Hughes of the Juvenile court, but mas
much as she did not go until after the
arrests in Reno, the judge held her tes,
timony immaterial.
Diggs was the center of attraction of
the day, Handsomely gowned women
stood two hours without luncheon in the
corridors of the federal building to hear
his concluding testimony in the after
noon, For the first time since the trial
began there were more women In at
tendance than men. The men were in
the majority during the forenoon, but
they capitulated to hunger and when
they returned the women had their
seats.
Fights Shy of Reno.
When Diggs was done. the story he
and Marsha Warrington and Lola Nor
hs have in turn set out had been told
inside out and upside down, backward
and forward Chiefly his count was
notable for it's omissions. His lawyers
did not attempt to have him deny that
he bought the transportation to Reno,
paid for the pullman berths, and was
intimate with Marsha Warrington in
Nev ada. All the stress WAS laid not on
what he did but what he intended to
do, Not word was said of what hap.
pened at Reno.
The case closed with no character
witnesses introduced and no attempt
made to blackcn the reputation of the
girls before they met DiggB and Cam.
fnetti. Under the rulings of Judge
| Van Fleet evidence Of that nature was
| immaterial.. The jury was merely to de.
| termine, did Diggs cross the state line
| with Marsha Warrington, did he pay
| her way, and did he go for immoral
purposes.
What blackening Of character was
| done, Diggs did himself. He testified
| freely to the plight INFO which he had
worked himself. and there was this bit
of testimony about the companion OF
| his errors;
"Rclate tho facts concerning the Wis.
it of Lola Norris, Caminetti, Miss War
rington aud yourself TO your home on
| that night early In January during the
absence Of your wife. Did you take
| Miss Warrington into your wife's bed
room9'
"Miss Warrington took me in.''
| Thereupon Diggs. testifying with a
display of reluctance, told of Miss
Warringtons alleged gloating over her
| triumrh over the absent wife
Mrs. Diggs was not forced to listen
! Continued on Pago Two.)