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Show LOLA MORRIS TRIED TO SAVE" CAMINETTI Young Woman Frankly Say 8he Swore Falsely to Help Him After Arrest San Francisco, Sept. 3. Lola Nor-rls Nor-rls admitted today In tho trial ot F. Drew Camlnettl for hllegcd violation of the Mann white slavo act that sho had given falso tcstlruohy nbout her relntlons with Camlnettl. Recnlled to tho stand to explain her first efforts to shield Camlnettl and Mnury I. Dlggs, Immediately after their arrest at Reno, sho owned frankly that Bho had not told tho truth nnd to that extent her credibility ns a witness and tho voluo of her story to tho government gov-ernment was hnken, but her explanation explana-tion was that sho had lied to savo tho man sho loved and whom sho then trusted. Mrs. Camlnettl followed her with testimony throwing Interesting sldo-lights sldo-lights on the "eternal trlhngle" but In the main n reptltlon ot what Bhe had privately told for the benefit of Dlggs, nt h's trial. Sho mado a willing will-ing and even an eager witness for her husband. Tomorrow, Camlnettl will begin his personal defense with his own account of how ho happened "Incidentally and accldentftlly" to leave his wife In Sacramento with n baby" three weeks old whero he fled across the California l'ne with Lola Norrls. Just His Motives Camlnettl does not deny his acts; he seeks to qualify them by the motives mo-tives from which they sprang. His defense, ns stated today by his counsel, coun-sel, Is to nil Intents nnd purposes tho siimo ns that put forward by his companion, Dlggs consisted on llko charges Although Camlnettl had expected to testify In person today the government govern-ment forestalled him n'nd Instead ho listened to his own words as taken down by W. E. Doan, a Sacramento court reporter, In reply to the questions ques-tions of F. F. Atkinson, assistant district attorney of Sacramento counts coun-ts nfter tho Reno arrests. It whs to Atkinson that Lola Norrls admitted admit-ted today she had lied. In the eourso of tho Interrogatory tho nccurocy of which Camlnettl does not question, us taken down by Dean, ho repeatedly admitted that he had Piomlsed to marry Miss Norrls after af-ter lie should have obtained a dlvorco fiont his wife on tho ground of physical physi-cal cruelty. Replied by Miss Norrls in part to questions ot Mr. Atkinson and In part to those ho permitted Camlnettl to nsk, also wero taken down by Doan at the same time and wero read by him from his notes today. With Its production of this testimony testi-mony the go eminent rested abruptly. |