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FIE A R ST S SrXDA'S AMERICAN, ATLANTA, 0A„ SUNDAY. AUGUST 10, SOUGHTiALL SMS TO BT WRITING ROUGE Would-Be Benedict Gives Evi AT KN1XIILLE Exhibition of Best Breeds To Be GOESTOTRIAL Diggs 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.—Mar- sha Warrington and Ida Norris, the Sacramento high school girls alleged to have been taken to Reno in No vember by Maury I Diggs and Drew Caminetti for immoral purposes, will take the stand against Diggs when his trial is resumed Tuesday. No ses sion of th© Diggs trial was held to day. Diggs and Caminetti will taJ<e the stand before the trial is con cluded. Judge Van Fleet dealt the defense a hard blow yesterday when h© an nounced that the jury would not consider the willingness or unwilling ness of the two girls to accompany Diggs and Caminetti. The jury to hear the case of Diggs, the former State Architect, was an nounced complete 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 th€ task of picking a jury. Of (he twelve men chosen, eight are mar ried and have children, two are married, but childless, and two are j-ingle 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 agni’ st "any married man who will a liar, don hjs wife and babies and run :ff 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 Diggr and Cam inetti will be tried separately Decause the prosecution feels it has made out the stronger cpse 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 I.ola Norris from California to Ne vada for immoral purposes. Both are married men. Diggs, 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 twenty witnesses from Sacramento’s tenderloin. Caminetti is making no such move against Miss Norris. The Government asserts her character to be unblemished. Mrs. Caminetti Relentless. Caminetti’s wife is relentless in her attitude toward her young husband. She 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 Pnoi o s cc>pyj?j -A-Q 0-3 •nxRj'evn onal JUw5 husbands’ sides, a spectacle which, the defense calculates, will have an effect to their advantage on the jury. Diggs and Caminetti both are 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 nt 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. pre c ident of the San Francis co Police Commission, have been ap pointed special prosecutors by Attor ney Genera! McReynolds, to tak'' the place of District Attorney Gavin Mc- Nab, who resigned with the an nouncement that undue influence was being brought to bear from Washing ton to prevent the trial of the two 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. McNab Outlines His Case Against the Defendants Tn 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 two 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 a ‘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 with the young women* for some months the two de- f fendants. who had determined to en- ' tioe 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 Their Stories to the Girl*. They told the young women that Mrs. Digg9 and Mrs. Caminetti nad found out about their relations arid had procured warrants for their ar rest frgm the Juvenile Court and were only awaiting the appropriate time to serve them; that Mrs. Diggs and Mrs. Caminetti were relentless and intended to expose the whole matter, and that the families of tlie girl would be disgraced and ruined; that the only way to save the girls from disgrace was secretly to leavt 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. Thev repeatedly appealed to the defendants to allow them to remain at homo 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 bedrooms, Diggs and Miss Warrington occupying one room and Caminetti 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 selves. “Appealing to the men to know Father Makes Wealth After He Had Left Baby in Michigan I nstitution. CADILLAC, MICH., Aug. 9.- Sheriff Chamberlain has been asked by an at torney in Corning, N. Y., 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 w r hen 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 back from Michigan. He recently died, leaving his fortune to his only child. GIRL HELPS FATHER IN BUILDING NEW HOUSE HARTFORD, MICH., Aug. 9.—One year ago S H. Atkins and family came to this city and built a house in a field of rye in the outskirts of the city. Recently they sold th^ 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. .^tkins in the building of his new '•’H-ne. The mother and 9-year-old daughter did all of the lathing. Ban on Tobacco Seen 'Spooners Protest By Prohibitionists Against Headlights Smoking and Drinking Are Blamed Bi 3 Hllr-nlnatlng Power Now Carried for Increase in Chronic Dis eases in America. BATTLECREEK. MICH.. Aug 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 chronic diseases in America- on Engines Is Worry to 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 agfjnsl the innovation. Spooners do not like it. When one ponders and considers the offering made at the prices quoted above and remembers thequalities we have, it affords full explanation for the ready response to our sale announcements- Cloud-Stanford Co. 6 J Peachtree Street dence in Letter That He Fears Mother-in-Law, Feature of National Conser vation Exposition. 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 ‘house.’ “The Grand Jury had ample evi- j dence before it in these 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. j fendants procured counsel. Among ■ these is Charles Harris, of the Sacra - ' mento bar. He and Diggs immedi ately net 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 worry. * This seems to have come principally from the Diggs end of the case.” Foundling Is Heiress To $100,000 Fortune Nearly Five Months to Bring Caminetti and Diggs to Trial MARCH 10. Farley Drew Caminetti, married, twenty-seven, son of IT. 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. United States Attorney McNab wins 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 shedding any tears; he is a Re publican.” J U N E 23. Secretary of Labor Wilson assumes responsibility for McReynolds’ action. A Cabinet meeting is called and President Wilson overrules McReynolds and orders the cases 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 fair and right.” JUNE 28. - James C. Mann. Republican leader, bitterly attacks McReynolds and Secretary Wilson, both Cabinet officers. JULY 6. The Hearst papers print the suppressed correspondence between Mc Reynolds and McNab and others, show irig the Attorney General knew of the seriousness of the case. . JULY 19. Republicans start a filibuster in House 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. PRINCIPAL figures in the white slave case which has stirred the whole nation and involved official circles. Snapshot of young Caminetti and Diggs, the girls A 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. OAKLAND, OAI.„ Aug. 9.—J. Keler, of Fresno, is a marrying man. He proved it by writing a letter to “the Chief of Police or the City Marshal of Oakland" and entreating that offi cial to find him a wife. He wants a wife who has means equal to hif own—amount not stated—and indi cates in his letter thut he would ex pect h*»r to assist him in his mer chandise business. He assures all responsible applicants that he is so le r and industrious and hasn't .1 liB gle bad habit. If you are a maid, a girl or a wid ow' who reads this, you stand a chance of winning the prize, and if you are an orphan, got busy and send your picture to Keler at once. He takes kindly to orphans, as is evidenced from tiie following excerpt from his letter: “Will answer all questions and let ters from girls, maids and widows, but would prefer to wed an orphan. Will give my business to the one I wed, that she may know I am a square man and will do right.” The following notice was inclosed, with the request that the official post it in a conspicuous place: “Temperate gentleman would he pleased to form the acquaintance of ladies matrimonially Inclined. Give description and full particulars in first letter. Send photo, which will be re turned, if desired.” Buys a $4,000 Auto To Use Cheap Gas When Ex-Senator Scott Has Burned I 60,000 Gallons He Will Have Saved Cost of Car. WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—The house of Senator Nathan Bay Scott, of West Virginia, is divide^ against itself, with ( automobiles as they issue. The Senator I and Mrs. Scott are devoted to each other. They attend the same dinners, theaters and social functions together, but they arrive and depart in separate motor cars. It came about this way: The senator has been paying 22 cents | a gallon for gasoline to propel the fam ily machine. He discovered a place where the price w r as 17 coats. With much glee he informed Oscar, the fam ily chauffeur, of his discovery and di rected that Oscar purchase gasoline there. Oscar demurred because the gasoline emporium was too far from the family mansion. Mrs. Scott hacked him up. Whereupon Senator Scott bought him self a $4,000 machine, acquired a chauf feur to navigate it and divorced himself from the old machine and Oscar. After Senator Scott has burned 60.000 gallons of gasoline he will have saved the cost of the car. But he doesn’t have to ride with Oscar. SHEDS TOENAILS BIENNIALLY. BEDFORD. IND., Ai’r 9.—J. W. Mundy, of this city, sheds the nails from bin toes every two years, and this has occurred since he was a child When asked to see his foot. Mundy bared his left foot and showed the old nails, barely hanging to the toes, and the new nails growing under the old ones. KNOXVILLE. TENN., Aug. 9.— Birds for ^he poultry show that is to be held in connection with the Na tional Conservation Exposition in this city during the months of September and October are coming to Knoxville all the way from California, Word or the coming of the California birds has Just been received by the poultry de partment. Interest in the poultry show is country-wide. From almost every State in the Union will be brought to Knoxville poultry of different kinds. Already it is assured that the poul try show will be the biggest thing of its kind ever held in the South. It will be in fact as well as name “The Madison Square Garden Show of the South." A most comprehensive exhibit of the great textile industry of the South is assured for the exposition* Progressive manufacturers of Green ville, S. C., have Just signed up for a large amount of exhibit space in the All-South building of the expo sition and the greater part of that space will be devoted to the textile Industry. In addition to the Greenville tex tile manufacturers a number of other concerns of like nature in the South, from Knoxville and elsewhere, will make exhibits, and thus this indus try', constantly increasing in impor tance In the South, will receive great attention. The different processes through which cotton goes from the seed to the loom and after will be strikingly shown in the dllTerent ex hibits. SALE OF PENSIONER, NOT IN WAR, ASKS RAISE OF STIPEND BIG SANDY. MONT., Aug. 9.,-Aft- er having enjoyed a pension of $12 per month for sixteen years, John Truax, of this town, confessed that he had never been entitled to the money. He had a preliminary examination before United States Commissioner Ragan and was bound over to the Federal District Court. Truax might have gone on drawing the pension until death had he not lately made application for an in crease. SHOES q 95 Ladies’ hand-turned colonial purrtps and oxfords in white canvas, patent colt, tan, vici kid and Russia tan. Among them is a white canvas ' colonial pump with a low heel, a patent colt co lonial pump with a low heel, a pretty black satin pump with flat bow, and many other styles. Monday, TuesJay and Wed nesday they go on sale for Another lot of White Canvas Pumps and Oxfords on sale for . . Men's Sorosis $5.00 Oxfords, $3.85 Any Woolen Suit $20 Any Mohair Suit $15