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3 D 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. 5>noT o s cppyjei -trsf 'frvmjyjBjx/vno.NAX jrxw 5 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. 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