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ITEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. OV SUNDAY ATTCUST 10. 1010.
Oiggs Faces a Jury and Caminetti
Will Later Fight Charge of Tak
ing Girls to Reno, Leaving Their
Wives in State of California.
After Five Months of Delay and
Scandal Involving National Of
ficials, Special Prosecutors Are
Appearing for the Government.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9.—All
California anticipates becoming the
unsavory center of the nation’s atten
tion for the next three weeks or a
month, probably, during the trial of
the Diggs-Caminetti white slave
cases, arrangements for the beginning
of which to-day are complete, after
many months of controversy, post
ponement and of turmoil that threat
ened to disrupt President Wilson’s
cabinet.
The jury to hear the case of Maury
I. Diggs, former State Architect, one
of the two defendants, was announced
complete to-day. after considerable
difficulty in selecting the twelve mem
bers. Exhaustive examination of 96
veniremen was necessary before the
twelve were chosen.
The first witness was called. He
■was F. J. Peck, a Reno real estate
dealer, by whom the defense sought
to show that the bungalow* occupied
by the defendants in Reno had been
rented with no view to concealment.
Prejudice against the defendants
runs high, rendering exceedingly dif
ficult the task of picking a jury. Of
the tw'elve men cho?en, eight are mar
ried and have children, two are
married, but childless, and two are
single men, living with their parents.
Indicative of the general temper of
San Francisco was the reply upon
examination of Philip Woolsey, who
afterward was chosen as a member of
the jury. He expressed his prejudice
against ‘‘any married man who will
abandon his wife and babies and run
off on a spree with another woman,”
but said he could, however, render a
verdict strictly in accordance with the
evidence.
Cases Come Up Separately.
The cases against Diggs and Oam-
lnetti will be tried separately Decause
the prosecution feels it has made out
the stronger case against Diggs, and
because the defense In this case will
assume a course different from that
in Caminetti’s.
Diggs and F. Drew Caminetti. son
of former Congressman and present
Commissioner General of Immigration
Caminetti. are charged with luring
Miss Marsha Warrington and Miss
Lola Norris from California to Ne
vada for immoral purposes. Both are
married men.
Digg?, the prosecution will attempt
to show*, financed the trip to Reno,
•where the girls were taken, and rent
ed there a cottage in which thd party
lived.
Diggs, against whom the charges
are made in relation to Miss Marsha
Warrington, is said to be contemplat
ing a fierce attack on the character
of the girl. He has subpenaed habi
tues of the ‘‘Barbary Coast” resorts
of this city and tw enty witnesses from
Sacramento’s tenderloin. Caminetti
1s making no such move against Miss
Norris. The Government assert;- her
character to be unblemished.
Mrs. Caminetti Relentless.
Caminetti’s wife is relentless in her
attitude toward her young husband.
Phe said that despite the disgrace it
may bring on their children, she
thinks, for the protection of other
married women, her husband should
be made an example.
Mrs. Diggs, also, is bitter toward
her husband. The defenders of both
men, however, to-day are claiming a
complete reconciliation of the defend
ants with their wives, and declare
that when the trial gets fully under
way both Mrs. Diggs and Mrs. Cami
netti will be seen sitting at their
P RINCIPAL figures in the white slave case which has stirred the whole nation and involved official circles. Snapshot of young Caminetti and Diggs, the girls
for whom they deserted their homes, and United States Commissioner of Immigration Caminetti. Young Caminetti has a cigarette in his hand. To the right is
Marsha Warrington, and to the left Lola Norris.
TO HEIR’S EXILE
Lieutenant in the Kaiser’s Army
Comes to Chicago and Joins
U. S. Cavalry,
Private Room, Electric Fans,
Leather Chairs, Etc., for Each
of Dozen Pomeranians.
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husbands’ sides, a spectacle which,
the defense calculates, wjll have an
effect to their advantage on the jury.
Diggs and Caminetti both ar? free
from custody, having taken advantage
of the $10,000 bail offered them. At
first they feared freedom, as violence
was anticipated, but later this fear
was overcome.
Diggs Appears to be cheerful to-day,
taking matters easily. He is scrupu
lously dressed,. He came into the
courtroom, with his flock of attor
neys, bearing a cheerful smile, and
bowed a dozen times to familiar faces
that he saw* near. Caminetti, on the
other hand, seemed deeply worried.
He was pallid and palpably very nerv
ous. His father, the Commissioner
General of Immigration, did not make
his appearance, and probably will r*>t
be seen at the trial.
Two Special Prosecutors.
The trial is being held in the Fed
eral Court before Judge Van Fleet.
Matt I. Sullivan and Theodore R.
Roche, president of the San Francis
co Police Commission, have been ap
pointed special prosecutors by Attor
ney General McRevnolds, to take the
place of District Attorney Gavin Mc-
Xab, who resigned with the an
nouncement that undue influence was
being brought to bear from Washing
ton to prevent the trial of the tw*o
men.
Arrayed with the special prosecu
tors are Archie Johnson, son of Gov
ernor Johnson, and Acting District
Attorneys Benjamin L. McKinley and
Thomas H. Salvage.
Diggs and Caminetti have an equal
ly impressive line-up of legal defend
ers, including Robert L. Devlin and
Marshall B. Woodworth, both former
United States District Attorneys;
Nate Coghlan and S. Luke Howe.
A heavy guard is thrown around
the courtroom because feeling runs
high against the two defendants. The
two girls involved were high school
students of Sacramento and of esti
mable families. Both, attorneys for
the Government announce, will be
ready to take the stand against the
men.
The Government will charge that
Diggs and Caminetti. both married
men. had drawn the girls into a liai
son; that they terrified the girls Into
the belief that their wives, having dis
covered their infidelity, intended to
have the girls arrested, and that to
escape this imaginary danger the girls
accompanied the men to Reno, Nev.
McNqb Outlines His Case
Against the Defendants
what was to be done with them, the
young women were told that their
ruin was complete; that they would
not desert them, but that the young
women were to continue to live with
them as their mistresses, and that
they would take them to Salt Lake,
where they would go into a touse.*
“The Grand Jury had ample evi
dence before it in theao statements to
decide that the intent was to put them
in a public place.
Barely Escaped Lynching.
“The defendants were secretly
taken from the train and brought
to Sacramento by auto to avoid
lynching by the enraged citizens. De.
fendants procured counsel. Among
these Is Charles Harris, of the Sacra
mento bar. He and Diggs immedi
ately s»et about to defeat justice by
corrupting a witness. Diggs wrote
an appealing letter to Miss Warring
ton under an assumed name, uring
her to stand by a certain agreed story
he had drilled her in while in Reno.
The letter Is in my possession.
‘‘The Grand Jury has indicted Har
ris and Diggs for conspiracy to sub
orn perjury.
“The friends of the defendants are
reported to have stated repeatedly
that they could ‘easily fix the case;'
that they had too much money and
too much influence at command to
cause them to w'orry. This seems to
have come principally from the Diggs
end of the case.”
Foundling Is Heiress
To $100,000 Fortune
Father Makes Wealth After He Had
Left Baby In Michigan
Institution.
In his report Mr. McNab gives the
following pen picture of Caminetti
and Diggs:
“The defendant Diggs was a
draughtsman in the office of the
State Capitol in Sacramento. He is
married and has tw'o young children.
“But a short time before the ac
tions hereinafter narrated he was in
volved in a forgery charge, and for a
long time, by common repute, easily
substantiated by evidence, he main
tained what has been denominated as
s ‘private harem’ at his rooms in a
downtown block in Sacramento. Here,
according to charges laid before me.
he enticed many young women to go
to serve his immoral purposes.
‘‘Caminetti was his bosom compan
ion. The defendant Caminetti has a
vicious reputation for seducing girls,
and I have shocking instances which
I can produce to establish this fact.
“The two girls in question, both of
whom are about 19 years of age,
come of most respectable families.
Marsha Warrington is the only
daughter of the agent of the Santa
Fe Railroad. Lola Norris is the only
daughter of a retired business man
of Sacramento.
“After going wdth the young
women for some months the two de
fendants. who had determined to en
tice the girls away from home and
take them to another State. began a
systematic campaign of coercion and
inducement to get them to flee the
State with them.
The»r Stories to the Girls.
Thftv laid t-hA iuiunz u omen l_haL
Mrs. Diggs and Mrs. Caminetti nai
found out about their relations and
had procured warrants for their ar
rest from the Juvenile Court and
were only awaiting the appropriate
time to serve them; that Mrs. Diggs
and Mrs. Caminetti were relentless
and intended io expose the whole
matter, and that the families of the
girl would be disgraced and ruined;
that the only way to save the girls
from disgrace was secretly to leave
the city and go to another State,
where they would acquire a resi
dence. the men would divorce their
wives and marry the girls, etc.
“The young women were in abso
lute terror. They repeatedly appealed
to the defendants to allow them to
remain at home and not to disgrace
them, and begged to be allowed to
unbosom their indiscretions to their
parents and have their advice.
“Up to this time, according to the
uncontradicted evidence. Diggs had
been unduly intimate with Miss War
rington for a few weeks: the Norris
girl had never been violated before
this trio to Reno
“On arrival at Reno they were as
signed to bedroomm. Diggs and Miss
Warrington occupying one room and
Caminptti and Miss Norris the other.
According to the testimony of the
young women, they were wholly in
the hands of their male companions.
They had never been away from home
or their parents before and felt that
they were powerless to save them-
s ve«.
•JLuatku.line- to the men to know
I CADILLAC, MICH., Auk. 9 — Sheriff
Chamberlain has been asked by an at
torney in Corning. N. Y. t to locate Bes
sie Weaver, who was adopted by a
Manton, Mich., family from a New York
foundling home over twenty years ago,
and a few days ago became heir to $100,-
000.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Weaver, of Man-
ton, who adopted the child when on a
trip through New York, returned her to
the home five years later. Since that
time nothing has been heard from her.
The father of Bessie Weaver, or Bessie
Clark, as she was known In New York,
made his fortune after placing his child
in the home, but has been unable to lo
cate her since she was taken hack from
Michigan. He recently died, leaving his
fortune to his only child.
GIRL HELPS FATHER IN
BUILDING NEW HOUSE
HARTFORD. MICH., Auk 9.—On*
year ago S. H. Atkins and family
came to this city anti built a house
in a field of rye in the outskirts* of
the city. Recently they sold the
home, and with the proceeds pur
chased four adjoining lots. They are
now building a much larger house,
which will be the sixth they have
erected since the little home was
built.
The scarcity of carpenters caused
the mother and daughter to assist Mr.
Atkins in the building of his n« y
home. The mother ind 9-year-old
rtoMffV.*#* am on nf the lathiiur.
Nearly Five Months to Bring
Caminetti and Diggs to Trial
MARCH 10.
Farley Drew Caminetti. married, twenty-seven, son of U, S. Com
missioner of Immigration Caminetti. with Lola Norris, nineteen, un
married, and Maurice I. Diggs, married, ex-State Architect, about twen
ty-eight. and Marsha Warrington, nineteen, unmarried, all of Sacra
mento, go to Reno, register under assumed names, rent a cottage later,
and live four days together when arrested. The men assert they are un
happy and intend to marry the girls after securing divorces.
MAY 19.
The men are indicted for violati ig the Mann white slave law, put un
der bonds of $10,000 and their cases put on the calendar for trial In
June. Citizens all over California appeal to U. S. District Attorney John
L. McNab to push the cases.
MAY 27.
Uni’ed States Attorney McNab wires Attorney General McReynolds
that both prisoners were boasting of their “Influence at Washington,”
and that strenuous efforts were being made to secure postponement of
trials; also that bribery and perjury were being used in their behalf.
JUNE 18.
Secretary of Labor Wilson telephones McReynolds “that Commis
sioner of Immigration Caminetti, who has applied for leave of absence
to attend the trial of his son, can not be spared.”
JUNE 19.
McReynolds telegraphs McNab to postpone the cases till fall.
JUNE 21.
McNab sends in resignation to President Wilson.
JUNE 22.
McReynolds’ comment: “I’m not sheading any tears; he is a Re
publican.”
JUNE 23.
Secretary of Labor Wilson assumes responsibility for McReynolds’
action. A Cabinet meeting is called and President Wilson overrules
McReynolds and orders the rases rushed.
JUNE 24.
The President accepts? McNab’s resignation with a rebuke for giving
”his resignation the form of an inexcusable intimation of injustice and
wrongdoing.” In a letter to McReynolds he says: “I am entirely satis
fied that the course you took in these cases was prompted by sound
and impartial Judgment and a clear insight for what was lair and right.”
JUNE 28.
James C. Mann, Republican leader, bitterly attacks McReynolds and
Secretary Wilson, both Cabinet officers.
JULY 6.
The Hearst paners print the suppressed correspondence between Mc
Reynolds and McNab and others, showing the Attorney General knew of
the seriousness of the case.
JULY 19.
Republicans start a filibuster in Hou.^e to secure a full discussion of
the case.
JULY 20.
Filibuster ends with victory’ for Republicans.
JULY 31.
Case of Diggs comes to trial August 5.
Ban on Tobacco Seen ! Spooners Protest
By Prohibitionists Against Headlights
Smoking and Drinking Are Blamed ! Bi 9 Illuminating Power Now Carried
for Increase in Chronic Dis- on En 3'"« '* Worry to
eases in America.
BATTLECREEK, MICH., Auk 9.—
That tobacco as well as liquor will be
placed under national prohibition be
fore the end of another generation, is
the assertion made here by Irving
Fisher. Fisher blames liquor, to
bacco, overuse of meat and too stren
uous life for the terrible increase of
nheen i/. diuAUKAU * T* litTlgrifU.
Summer Boarders.
MINNEAPOLIS. Aug. 9.—The Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail
road has placed monster 1,220-candle-
power electric searchlights on the ob
servation cars of the Pioneer Limited.
Letters have found their way into
the general offices of the company
signed by summer hotel men. house
boat owners and the public generally,
protesting against the innovation.
tkUAiinura do not HU* ll_
Champion Barnyard Producer
Rests Only When Commence
ment Season Arrives.
OREGON AGRICUI.T [JRA I, COL
LEGE, CORVALLIS, OREG., Aug 9
A college hen, which laid 99 eggs in
100 days and observed Commence
ment Day by taking a single day’s
vacation. is a new claimant for prom
inence in the chicken w’orld.
The newly heralded layer Is three-
quarters White Leghorn and one-
quarter Barred Plymouth Rock, de
scending from several generations cf
heavy layers bred at the Oregon Agri
cultural College experiment station.
The 99 eggs were laid during the
100 days ended June 8. as follows:
Thirty-one in March. 29 In April, 31
in May and 8 in the first 8 days in
June.
Not only is this the best record ever
secured at Oregon Agricultural Col
lege for the same length of time, but a
careful perusal of authentic records
from other stations on file falls to re
veal an equal performance.
The result of breeding as shown in
the egg production of this one hen is
only an isolated example of what Pro
fessor James Dryden’s extensive ex
periments are proving to be possible.
Up to date the records show clearly
the beneficial effect in egg yield, and
when the year’s experiments are con
cluded in the fall some interesting
statistics will be available for the use
of poultrymen who are raising chick
ens for egg production.
Blue Underwear Is
Hot Weather Relief
Head of U. S. Health Department
Recommends It as Means
of Keeping Cool.
WASHINGTON. Aug 9 -The head of
the Public Health Department gave
out to-day Instructions on ‘‘How to
Keep Cool, Happy and Healthy in Sum
mer.”
What to Rat—Plenty of fruit*; fresh
vegetables; as little meal as possible;
potatoes and other starchy foods In
moderate quantities.
What to Drink—Soft, non alcoholic
cooling drinks; buttermilk and sweet
milk (the certified kind); alcoholic
drinks In greatest moderation.
What to Wear—White outer clothes;
blue underwear; soft collars; straw hats;
good, old, easy shoes.
ST. LOUIS. Aug. 9.—Because his
love for a pretty German actress re
sulted in his squandering an inheri
tance of $32,000 in one year. Dr. Otto
Gordon Goldfield, scion of a wealthy
family, a lieutenant In the German
cavalry and a graduate of Gottigen
University, was forced by his father
to come to the United States and Join
the army here as a private. The
young German is now in barracks
here.
Ruth Werner. German dancer and
linger, charmed the young man when
In Vienna. Hie grandfather had Just
died and left him $32,000. Within a
year this was gone, and after numer
ous appeals to his father. Dr. Goldfield
was forced to come here.
Told to Give Up Girl.
His father, w’ho Is the vice president
of the Corporation of Hamburg, told
him to give up the girl, his commis
sion In the army and go to America.
“I fell In love with the girl,” ex
plained “Private” Goldfield. “and
spent all my money on her. She was
beautiful. If she wanted Jewels I
bought Jewel** We were at Monte
Carlo. She wanted to piny the games
She was beautiful, and I loved her, so
why should she not be happy?
“We were In Paris, at the Horse
Show in London, and many other
places. She had automobiles and fine
horses.
“And then my money gave out. My
parents refused to give me more, and
mv father forced me to come to the
United States and try for a commis
sion in r.ne army.
“Will I go back?” responded Dr.
Goldfield In ansnver to a question
“Yes. when I get my commission her.*
i win go back and tnc girt and i will
be married. But not until then. f
must stay in the army here until
I am a lieutenant.
Like* Open Air Life.
“It’s the open air. and beautiful I
like here more than anything else.
That is why I have come to the West.
“And your soldiers—well, next to
the French dragoons they are about
the best in the world, in my opinion,
and I have seen the troops of all the
larger countries. That’s why I am
enlisting as a private here, for I like
the life and will stay anyway until f
get my naturalization papers.”
Goldfield is twenty-five, and has
served the last four years in the Ger
man cavalry as a lieutenant. He Is
an experienced horseman, and says
he was the winner of the champion
ship at the International Horve Show
held In London two years ago. riding
the horses from his father's stables.
Jacob Goldfield, father of the young
army officer, besides being vice presi
dent of the Hamburg Cornoration, is a
well-known German Jurist, as Is also
his brother. Rudolph Goldfield.
BROKTON. MASS, Aug %r-
Twelve Pomeranians—each with a
whole room to himself, and housed
in a house which they have all to
themselves, likewise—take he prize
for dog luxury, Brockton folks be
lieve. Besides a house of their own,
the dogs have:
A valet, electric fan, individual
beds, a bath twice a day, a back yard
to play in. leather chairs and soft
rugs (the latter to try their teeth on).
Mrs. E. V. Graves, a leading busi
ness woman, owns the dogs. She is
successful as the head of a factory
here. Brockton folks say she is more
attentive to the dogs than Mrs Wil
liam Garter, of Newport, who got four
doctors when her Pomeranian was
nervous.
During the hot days the valet, Mr.
Beals, fans the little fellows with ft
specially made $18 electric fan and
each dog Is given a cold bath at fre
quent Intervals,
“They are all as Jealous as can be.”
says Mrs. Graves. “If you make more
of one than another there Is a terri
ble howl and often a fight. They are
friendly to children as a general rule.
The dogs are worth anywhere from
$160 to $1,000 each, but I do not care
to sell them. They are a great com
fort. to me.”
Wind Saves Life of
Baby Caught by Kite
String on Toy Encircles Throat of
Child and Lifts Him
From Earth.
GHICAGO, Aug. 9.—Except for the
timely intervention of a gust of wind,
Baby Allen McNaughton, 15 months
old, might have been hanged by a box
kite string until he was dead yester
day afternoon In the presence of his
12-year-old brother. Monroe, and i
group of boy friends. As it was he
was hanged until he was black in the
face, and the string circled his throat
with a gash that barely missed the
jugular vein. Just as the kite went
up the string slackened and twined
about the baby’s throat. The child
was lifted from the ground and was
being borne aloft when a sudden cross
current slackened the string again.
Monroe quickly cut It, releasing the
kite and his brother at the same time.
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Fisherman, Who Unintentionally Vio
lated Law, Skips State, and
Justice of Peace Suffers.
CRANfL MO.. Aug. 9. -A resident of
Crane has given a new turn to the long
struggle for fees and fines by petty
officers along the State line. This man
was arrested, with his family, on
charges of violating the fishing laws,
pleaded guilty, was fined, paid the fines
ar.d fees with a cheek, then he hustled
across the State line and stopped pay
ment on the check
The violation of the law was unin
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floating down White River and did not
note the change of State jurisdiction
until the constable arrested them f->r a
manner rtf fishing which hat* bte«i legal
a few miles back
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