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Diggs and
Caminetti
will face
sentence
Wednesday.
The women
in the pic
ture, Dr.
Charles F.
Asked says,
have already
received
theirs, but
he declares
that their
experience
has
caused an
awakening
of a new
spirit of
morality
that means
much to the
future of the
nation.
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DR. AKED SEES NEW MORAL ERA
By THE REV. CHARLES F. AKED.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6.—It is impossible to over-esti
mate the significance of the Diggs-Caminetti trials.
For all practical purposes these two cases may now be
studied as one.
The social position of the two men first called attention to
the charges brought against them. But this would only have
given notoriety, not importance. The ill-judged action of their
friends in trying to stave off an appearance before judge and
jury added to the notoriety.
The intervention of the Attorney General, the fierce daring
of Mr. McNab, the United States district attorney, taking his
official life in his hands and challenging the Government of
the United States to deal out even-handed justice even to the
son of one of its trusted officers; the painful blunder of the
President of the United States; his verbal rebuke to McNab
and his actual compliance with McNab’s demand; the debates
in congress that followed—all this gave to what at first looked
like a Sacramento elopement, a publicity not limited by the
boundaries of this country.
New Principle on Trial
Yet these things are not of the essence of the matter. The
importance of the case lies deeper. Perhaps the man or wom
an who made no secret of the absorbing interest which this
case possessed could not have explained in so many words the
nature of that interest.
But all the same, each person was conscious of a some
thing vaster than the fate of two vicious young men. It was
not they who were on trial. A new law of the land we love
was on trial. And behind that, a new great principle of law,
a new great principle of order, of life and government had to
stand its trial before a jury composed of all the thoughtful,
earnest persons amongst a population of ninety millions of
free men.
The Mann act, miserably misnamed “the white slave traf
fic act,” h?s had its baptism of fire. And the public have
learned with amazement that its scope goes far out beyond
their dreams of what law and the administration of law can do.
Designed to afford the Federal Government power to deal
with criminals who fatten upon the flesh and blood of women,
it was—and again by deliberate purpose—made to include
vicious conduct in which no suggestion of monetary gain or
of “white slavery” inhered, but which might tend eventually
to swell the ranks of women devoted to a shameful life.
The world—our world, the world of the United States
has for some time been prepared to take arms against the
brutalized creature who panders to vice and who by force or
fraud holds women in prostitution, making his market out
of them.
But the Diggs-Caminetti ease told all this great world
that law had now armed itself against conduct which long ago
both men and women have condoned, and stood ready to brand
as a party to this iniquity men who only thought to tread, as
men had done before them, the primrose path of dalliance—at
the cost ol' a woman’s shame.
News Was Real News
The news was really news. It was new news. It was
startling news. And our world has watched and waited and
carefully read and as earefully thought, and is still making up
its mind .as to whether the law, justified by Congress and the
Supreme Court of the United States, shall be justified at the
bar of public opinion.
Judge Van Vleet, in his charge, so full, so strong, so clear,
has repeated and emphasized his own conviction:
IN MY JUDGMENT THE LAW IS A GOOD ONE AND
IN THE INTERESTS OF PUBLIC MORALS AND DE
CENCY."
And again :
“THE MANN ACT IS AS MUCH FOR THE PROTEC
TION OF VIRTUOUS WOMEN AS IT IS TO BREAK UP
THE EVIL TRAFFIC IN WOMEN. ’
And that is what the public lias learned with such sur
prise. The public believed that the act was to break up the
vile traffic in women.
And friends of Diggs and Caminetti may protest as they
will; the judgment has been previously affirmed by the Su
preme Court. And the court yet more supreme, the court of
public opinion, the court of national conscience, will confirm
the judgment of these lower tribunals.
Prostitution is not a necessity. It is not, as generations,
almost fondly, called it, a “necessary evil.” The sacrifice of
women to the passions of men, all but hallowed by the beliefs
and practices of -thousands of years, has to end. A new era
has dawned and in this age conduct which once was thought of
as personal and individual, is seen to be a crime against society.
And society, for its own protection, will treat it as a crime.
Attack on All Society
It is this conviction, defined or unexpressed, which is dem
onstrated in a verdict of “guilty” against both Diggs and Cam-
innelti. The feeling deepest in the sonls of the earnest men and
women throughout the United States who have followed the
trials with such eager interest is not one of resentment on
behalf of Marsha Warrington and Lola Norris. The wrong,
it lias been seen—or at least felt—is not the sins against these
girls, but the attack upon the whole framework of the social
order. ^
These two girls are entitled to \erv little sympathy, except
^feis one sympathizes on general grounds .with every man or wo-
fwho goes wrong, as one is sorry for the two men in the
^^case.-’ They are bad girls; treacherous, wicked. And if a law
could bo p»\i*j*od which women could
administer, these girls would suf
fer severely at their hands. They
will suffer. They are suffering
And they ought to suffer.
Their parents suffer and one w on
ders whether their sufferings will
be a warning to other parents In
this country. What sort of paren
tal oversight has there been? How
does it come about that these girls
can easily deceive their fathers and
mothers ?
What kind of a love is it which
does not love well enough to be
stern, which accords license to
wander about at ail hours with all
sorts of men and go to all sorts of
places?
There are mothers and fathers In
this city and in every city in the
land who ought to have to learn
the lesson. And if they will not
learn It from the Dlggo-Caminettl
trials, they may yet have to learn it
in bitter, heartbreaking trials of
their ow n.
Appeals for Light Sentence.
1 have done. During the prog
ress of the trial I carefully refrain
ed from saying a word which might
prejudice the defendant. At the
end of the Diggs trial 1 penned an
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Saws of Gins Claim
Victims in Laurens
One •Man Dead and Another Maimed
for Life—Two Others
Cut.
DUBLIN.Sept. 6.—The record of the
week among cotton ginners in Lau
rens is one death and one man mann
ed for life, along with one widow and |
several fatherless children.
H. D. Temples died from wounds
received when he was accidently
caught In the saws of a gin that he
was operating on the farm of City
Court Sheriff B. M. Grier, a few
miles from Dublin.
The first accident happened Mon
day afternoon, when W. R. Arnold,
superintendent of the Empire Cotton
oil Mill, had his arm cut off by a
gin that he was repairing white it
was in motion.
At the same mill where Mr. Ar
nold lost his arm. two negroes were
injured.
bo that It would be a little less conj
fusing The amendment was not
strongly objected to, but the discus!
sion that it provoked on the Sundej
closing in general was.
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Dublin Puts Ban on
Sunday Business
appeal to the judge to temper Jus
tice with mercy. 1 have been re
proved on the one hand because, it
was alleged. Diggs was a debauch
ed scoundrel, who deserved no mer
cy, and on the other because the
case being on the subjudice, it was
"contempt of court" to s*ek to in
fluence the judge.
Such critics do not know the
meaning of the words they employ
And they know nothing of law and
the administration of law. That is
npt "contempt of court."
Now that the matter is out of the
hands of the Jury, it is a perfectly
proper plea. It is one which would
be admitted as proper in every
country in the civilized world. For
the reasons which I have given be
fore. and for reasons which appeal
to some of the best men and wom
en 1 know of. I made my appeal to
Judge VanFleet. I submit, with
great respect for him personally,
and with great respect for the of
fice which he so worthily fills, that
the law be vindicate^, and the ends
of justice served as effectively by a
light sentence as a heavy one—ana
perhaps better.
the son of the Commissioner General
of immigration, Anthony Caminetti,
faces a sentence in Federal prison for
his part of the excursion to Reno with
Lola Norris. Maury Diggs and Mar
sha Warrington.
By voting for a verdict of guilty on
the first count, the jurors who be
lieved Caminetti entirely innocent of
'persuading, inducing and enticing"
either of the girls won out. Cami
netti was convicted on the first count
of the indictment. On the second,
third and fourth counts he was ac
quitted.
That the Mann act was not enacted
to prosecute such cases as the one in
question was the general opinion of
the jurors. They wanted to be as
lenient as possible. When they re
tired a second time, the big discus
sion was clemency, only two jurors
being insistent that Caminetti be
given the limit of the law.
To be true to their oaths and in
structions of the court, the jury found
it necessary to convict Caminetti on
one count. It was a "gentleman’s
agreement" that a guilty verdict on
the other three. That was the way
the one count meant acquittal on
it went through.
Girl's Story Believed.
Lola Norris was considered only
Council Ordinance Would Close j
Every Store on Sab
bath Day.
DUBLIN, Sept. 6.—The proposi
tion of closing down every business
house tight in the city of Dublin on
Sunday is still causing the people
of the city more or less loss of sleep. |
and bringing on plenty of discussion
among the City Councilmen.
At the regular meeting of the Coun
cil this week, the matter was brought
up again by an amendment to the
ordinance prohibiting and one from
carrying on any business on Sunday,
Caminetti Begins Fight
To Escape Sentence
human in her lies to save herself and
Caminetti when she made her first
public statement on the train. It is
true that the jury believed the girl’s
frank story of her fight for her honor
that was successful until she took
the Reno trip.
“Cum Grano Salis" is the opinion
the jury had of Marsha Warrington’s
tale. In the jury room some were
confiident that Miss Warrington per
suaded Miss Norris to leave Sacra
mento.
Both the girls were viewed in the
light of what the lawyers call "parti-
ceps criminis,” which means "part
ners in crime."
"If the boys had the immoral in
tent before they left Sacramento the
girls must have had it, too. They all
took the flyer after they had been
hashing it over for a week. They
knew exactly what was going to hap
pen," one juror explained it.
Caminetti did not change expression
when the verdict was read. His wife
bowed her head. When she raised her
head, her face was flushed. His little
baby, Naomi, 4 years old, romped
about the floor, throwing her doll
about and prattling happily. Some
times the little child remembered the
crowd, and became embarrassed. But
she did not know what it all means
to her.
The elder Mrs. Caminetti heard the
verdict in the witness room. She did
not repeat her demonstration of the
previous day. She had herself in good
control, and in a minute was bustling
about like a Spartan mother arrang
ing for the bond.
Freed on $10,000 Bond.
Commendatore Theodore Baciga-
lupi, one of the leaders of the Italian
colony, and Frank J. Freeman, of Wil
low's. a well-known attorney, signed
the $10,000 bond paper, on which
Caminetti was freed pending an ap
peal.
Diggs, having been convicted on
four counts of the indictment, faces a
prison term which may be set at
twenty years, at the option of the
judge, and also a fine of $20,000.
Caminetti, who was found guilty on
only one count, faces the maximum
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 6.—Unde
terred by the adverse decision of the
Jury. Drew' Caminetti’s battle for an
acquittal from the charge of white
slavery which the Government has
placed against him will go on, say
[ his legal advisers.
"We hoped for an acquittal yes-
j terday," said Marshal R. Woodworth,
J formerly United States District At-
j torney here, and chief counsel for
.Caminetti, "but the court's ruling
i against the admisison of much of our
i evidence had led us to discount an
; unfavorable verdict, and the fight will
j go on.
"The first step will be a motion for
I a new trial when sentence is passed
Wednesday. Judge VanFleet undoubt -
j edly will deny this, and we will ap-
, peal to the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals, which probably will
reach the case next February.
"The Court of Appeals undoubtedly
will reverse the verdict of the trial
court."
If the jurors who found Caminetti
guilty of an infraction of the Mann
white slave traffic act last evening
had known a recommendation for le
niency was within their rights, that
rider to the verdict w'ould have been
returned.
Verdict by Compromise.
It w'as only by a compromise that
STATIONEHV
MOVELTIt*
WHITE SLAVE LAW MADE THE
PROTECTOR OF WOMANHOOD
T HE Maun act, miserably misnamed “the white slave traf
fic act,' has had its baptism of fire. Designed to afford
the Federal Government power to deal with criminals who fat
ten upon the flesh and blood of women, it was—and again by
deliberate purpose—made to include vicious conduct in which
no suggestion of monetary gain of “white slavery” inhered,
but which might tend eventually to swell the ranks of women
devoted to a shameful life.
The Diggs-Caminetti case told all this great world that
law had now armed itself against conduct which long ages ago
both men and women have condoned, and stood ready to brand
as a party to this iniquity those who only thought to tread, as
men had done before them, the primrose path of dalliance—at
the cost of a woman’s shame. REV'. CHARLES F. AKED.
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and a fine of $f*.00Q.
There remain iver the heads ot
both Diggs and Caminetti indict
ments charging conspiracy to violate
the act, and Diggs still has a third
indictment hanging over him.
With Charles B. Harris, of Sacra
ment c his irmer attorney, he is ac
cused of subornation of perjury. Nel
lie Barton, friend of Marsha War
rington. testified during the Digg-
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Mann Act Stands Baptism of Fire
Noted Minister Declares Public for
First Time Has Taken Up Arms
Against Condoned Immorality.
M EN convicted as “white slavers” and women who were
affected by the sensational trial. Above is Lola Norris,
the girl who eloped with Caminetti. Below (from left to right)
are Drew Caminetti, .Maury Diggs and Marsha Warrington.
Five of the
principal
figures in the
famous Diggs-
Caminetti
“White Slave”
eases in which
the Mann Act
received its
first
important test
since its
passage.