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Show SOCIETY GIRLS WHO RAN AWAY WITH DIGGS AND CAMINETTI TESTIFY IN SLAVE CASES; IF GUILTY MEN MAY GET FIVE YEARS Top, left to right: Lola Norris, Maury Diggs and Marsha Warrington; War-rington; bottom, Drew CaminettL San Fransisco, Aug 11. (Special) Doubtless the most important witnesses wit-nesses for the government In the white slave cases against Maury Dlggs and Drew Caminetll, now being tried here, will be Miss Marsha Warrington War-rington and Iola Norris. the young women whom the defendants are accused ac-cused of having taken to Nevada for immoral purposes. The voung women both of estimable California families, are completely in the hands of the j federal prosecutors who declare that they will no on the stand as willing witnesses against the two young men The federal charge made bv the government Is that Diggs and Cam inetti. both married men. had drawn Miss Warrlnston and Miss Norris Into a liaaon, that they terrified the girls Into the belief that their wives having hav-ing discovered their infidelity Intend ed to have the girls arrested and thai to escape this imaginary condition the girls accompanied the men to Reno, Nev There they stayed for a few- days In a hotel and then established them selves in a cottage where Diggs and Caminettl were arrested by federal officers bearing the warrants sworn out in Sacramento, the home of the two young women The government has placed Diggs first on trial, believing the case against him to be the strongest BJvl donee will he introduced to show that it was he who financed the trip imm California to Rene and hired the Reno cottage After young Caminettl has aho been tried. Charles H Harris, an at-fornev at-fornev for Dlggs will be prosecuted on a charge of attempted subornation of perjury, the allegation being that he attempted to persuade a girl to get the Warrington and Norris girls to swear that they had paid their own railroad fares to Nevada Diggs and Camlnetti will not deny that they went to Reno with the girls. Dlggs, against whom the charges are mad.- in relation to Miss Marsha Warrington, Is expected to make a fierce attack on the character of the girl He hae subpoenaed habitues of the Barbers Coast" resorts of this cltv and twenty witnesses from Sac ramento's Tenderloin " Caminettl is making no such move against Miss Norris Tho Mann Act makes It a crime to transport women or girl for Immoral purposes regardless of whether or not they have been im moral In the past The young men if found guilty, fece prison terms of from two to fif teen years, or fines of rom $1,000 to $6,000, or both Caminetti's wie is relentless in her attitude toward her young husband. She says that despite the disgrace it bring on their children, she thinks for the protection of other married women, her husband should be made an example of |