The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-16
supreme TRIBUNAL
] UPHOLDS ACT
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Finds Maury |. Diggs and Drew
caminetti Guilty Of Violat-
ing the Statute s
Law Does Not Apply To Confmer-
ciaIized Vice Alone, Declare
the Decision
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SAN FRANCISCO, January l6--
Drew Caminetti, son of United states
Commissioner of immigration Anthony
Caminetti, and Maury I. Diggs, promi-
nent architect of California, must 60
20 the penitcntiary to serve sentences
as white slavers," according to
decision of the supreme Court OF the
United States, advices concerning
which have been received here. The
opinion of the supreme Court, rendered
yesterday, dashes the last hope of the
two young men, aud ends one OF the
greatest legal battles ever fought in
the courts Of this country.
The Supreme Court In its opinion
holds that the Mann White Slave Act
does not apply alone to eommercialized
vice, but covers the transportation
from one State to another OF women
for immoral purposes, even when the
commercial element does not enter in
to the transaction.
The court was not unanimous in its
opinion, which was written by Justice
Day. Justices White, McKenna and
Clark dissented from the majority
verdict, and Justice McReynolds, hav.
ing as United States attorney general
had a part in the prosecution of the
two men, did not take part in the
decision. . g.. .,.a.s. f'4... p.
Case Years In Court
The case of Diggs and Caminetti has
been in the courts for more than three
years, they having been convicted in
the United States district court in San
F-anciseo on August 20, 1918 and
September 5, 1913, respectively. The
cases were promptly appealed and their
attorneys fought for them with every
legal weapon at their command and
contested every step of the battle.
! Diggs and Caminetti early in 1913
took two young; and sbeautifnl girls
| Marsha iWarrihgton and Eola Nofrig
| from Sacramento to Reno, Nevada. II
was proved at the trial that the -four
of them occupied house there and
that the two couples lived together.
The two men, at their trial, did moi
| try to escape so much on evidence al
| on the the ground that the transporta
tion of the two girls across the State
line did not come within the purview
! of the Mann Act as they were moi
transported for commercial purposes
but that the trip was merely a person
al escapade. e.
Attorneys Fight Hard
| The ablest attorneys in Californif
were enlisted jim the fight for the tive
young men, and Anthony Caminetti
United States commissioner of immigra
tion, whose official duty it is to prevent
the entry into the United States of i'm
moral persons, hastened from Washing
ton to aid his son and his son s frient
in their frantic efforts to escape tn,
consequences of their act.
Caminetti and his wife sat in th'
courtroom during the trial, which last
ed long time and was bitterly
fought.
Following the conviction of the two
men, the wives of both obtained di
vorces. Meantime, Diggs was agar
arrested, under the California State law
charged with a somewhat similar esca
pade with another girl, except that hC
did not take her out of the State. HI
was acquitted on that charge, however
Marries Miss Warrington
! Recently Drew Caminetti married
Marsha Warrington, the girl whom h'
4 lOOh 10 MENU. DO ne HluSt bSINb lClh
in the penitentiary for taking on 1
trip for immoral purposes the woman
who is now his wife.
The two defendants have been ou
on $4,000 bond each pending the de
cisiOn Of the Supreme Court Of thu
United States. 4
l." Previous to the trial of the two mel
a sensation was caused by the Tesigna
tion of John l.. McNab, United States
district attorney, who declared tha
pressure had been brought upon hin
from Washington to induce him to droI
the prosecution of Caminetti anC
Diggs. The name of United States
Commissioner of immigration Anthony
Caminetti was brought into the scandal
McNab's resignation was followed
by that of Judge Harrington, who a
a special agent of the department o
justice had had charge OF prosecution
and the collection of evidence in Nam
Act cases, and who made charges simi
lar to those of McNab.
McNab 5 resignation made the Diggs
Caminotti case. famous all over th