Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-08-21

been done, and the wisdom of trust
ing woman loved and scorned
when she bears witness against thu
lover who has discarded her, was
called into question.
A pleading that Diggs be allowed tc
return to his wife and to restore
lmself in the esteem Of his freud-
and business associates was so eff
foctiyely made by Nathan Coghlan
That it drew tears from Mrs. Anthony
Caminetti, the mother of the code
tendant, and had many of the other
men in the court room dabbing at
! tfeir eyes. The two injured wives,
who had testified for the defendant
after hearing the most damaging ad-
nissons from his own lips, sat inn
! movable.
! In view of the contention of the de-
f'nse that no criminally immoral pur-
I pose had been proved the interpre-
tation of the statute by the judge
vas awaited with much interest. On
this point he said in part.
The act, so far as here involved,
provides, in substance, that any per
son who shall knowingly transport
- :" in interstate commerce, any
woman or girl for the purpose of pros
ttution or debauchery, or for any
other immoral purpose, shall
re deemed guilty of a felony and pun
ished as the law provided,
The term interstate commerce, so
far as here involved, means transpor.
ttion from one state to another.
ITO debauch is to lead away from
purity, to corrupt in character or
morals, to pollute, to seduce from the
laths of virtue. A man debauches
a woman when, by insidious ap-
proach, he breaks down her
sense of delicacy and perverts her
moral nature, arouses her animal pas.
actions.
"As | have heretofore intimated to
you, it is immaterial what the char
acter of the two girls involved in these |
charges was at the time of the acts
charged. The act denounces the car
rying in interstate commerce for the
purposes specified of any
woman or girl, 1T regardless of T.
" neither the girl or woman who is the
subject of the act be lewd or chaste,
81 whether or not the man has him
self previously had intercourse with
ler {
IF it appears that the defendant +
las suggested to or attempted to in C
'uce any witness in this case to give 7
violence as to the facts in controversy /
II any respect not in accordance with {
he truth =. you may and should I
axe such attempts into consideration t
II determining the guilt of the de- r
ondant." t
The positive instruction went di- u
ectly to the testimony of Nellie Bar d
on, a friend Of Marsha Warrington, '
,ho testified that Diggs and his at
orney, Charles S. Harris, of Sacra- =
iento, induced her to coach Miss "
Warrington in the testimony she !,
hould give, promising her marriage -
she did as they wished and i'm i
otherwise. "
The defense did not contradi this
"
"The evidence is all before YOU, NJ
oncluded the court, and it is for Ii
ou to say where the truth rests. The la
efendant has taken the stand in his fl
wn behalf and so far as his testi m
ony tends to cover the transactions m
lvolved in the charges against him, xi
is somewhat at variance with that bt
the two girls. The testimony of the W
however, does not cover tr
le entire transaction.
After testfying to the relations a'
etween himself and Caminetti and -,
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