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Show DIGGS CASE NOTORIETY Marshall and Deputies Use Force in Clearing a Way in the Corridors of the Federal Building Build-ing Marsha Warrington War-rington to Testify Today To-day San Francisco. Aug 8 So much notoriety has attended the trial of Maury 1. Dlggs under the Mann act ih.it tho corridors of the federal building were choktd with crowds today an hour before the doors of the courtroom opened. The L'nited States marshal and his deputies found it decessarj to cieai away by force. Nobody was injured, but there were crushed hats and rumpled clothes. Few women were in the crowd. Marsha Warrington, on whose testimony tes-timony inn-rest fueussvd toda. was not expected to take the stand for the go eminent until late In the afternoon aft-ernoon The prosecution planned first to introduce further evidence f-om railway employees about ihe trip rrom Sacramento to Reno where I ml.. -, c.iminettl, Marsha Warrington and Lola Norrls were arrested . ('. II Walbourn. a Pullman con-ductor, con-ductor, testified that on the momin.; of March 1". he accepted four railway tickets from and sold a drawing to Reno from Sacramento to the tail b1 of two men in a mixed party of four Diggs and Camlnettl were purged to stand up "I think I took the tickets from and sold the drawing room,' said Wnlburn, ' to the taller of theao two gentlemen. " I.nggR is the taller attorney Uevlln objected that the identification was not positive, and that the words "1 think' suggested a con Jecture. Judge Van Fleet ruled that 1 I think'' was merely a usual expression, which a man might employ from habit hab-it when his convictions were In :e-alitv :e-alitv positive There was no attempt to press the witness into a more positive Identification, Identifi-cation, 'l be prosecution expects to prove by Lhe testimon) of the young women themselves that tliey were on the train, and feels that the conductor's conduc-tor's evidence will be sutficiently cor-roboratlvc cor-roboratlvc Court then adjourned until -o'clock this afternoon |