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Show CAMINETTI CASE OVER Arguments Are Being Made Case Probably Will Go to the Jury by Tomorrow Evening Lola Norris Says She Testified Falsely. San Francisco. CaJ , Sept. 4. The defense rested this morning in Its effort ef-fort lo prove that V Drew t'aminetti did not violate the .Mann white slave act when he left his wife and babies at home and fled across the California Califor-nia line from Sacramento to Reno i v wltfc Lola Norris. Maury 1 M.us and Marsha Warrington. The government bepan its arguments to the Jury which will be followed by those of the defense, and the case probably will go to the Jury tomorrow afternoon. i aminettl'8 testimony was brief The government did not Dunk if necessary nec-essary to crossexamlne him He told how O Brlen. a saloonkeep or. had frightened hltn with an account ac-count of the aner shown by I P DiKgs. Maury's father. "These two twirls and t'amiiiettl are ruining my .mi.' ) I'.rien reported Diggs. Sr., to have said Shortly afterward. Mrs DlgfB had called him at' O Krlen's on the tele phulie 'I'm fcoing to tell the girls' parents and you. know what they II do to mi Mrs Diggs had said "I begged her not to talk that way on the telephone and asked permission permis-sion to talk it over with her She gavj nic permission and I went to see her that evening," auiim tti said what happened in that Interview was told by Mrs Digs, who followed Caminetti on the stand I told him' she said, "thai these cirls were nothing hut bomebreaktis and that I knew he was the cause of my husband s being out so much Caraihettl just hung his head I lob! him I didn't ever want to hear of him speaking to Mr. Dlggs again I Bald I'd shoot Marsha War-! rfbgtdn ''ke 11 ,,OK " ' '2"r Haw nt'r with my husband I sam I'm going to make those girls suffer just what I have suffered ' He tried to make me promise tr, wait. I said, 'I'll promise you nothing noth-ing Miss Warrington has come lo my house I've treated her like u lady. She has held my baby on hei lap. and she s Just got to stop 'Caminetti said 'All you've said in t rue Mrs. Diggs' testimony, seemingh. so damaging to the defendant, was introduced in-troduced in line with the policy ,,i the defense both In this and the Diggs' trial -to lay stress at any cost on the state of mind of the fugitives. Mrs Dlggs waB not cross examined. As she left the witness stand Mar shall Woodvvorth, chief counsel for the defense, rose with two motions First, that the testimony of W E Doan, the Sacramento court reporter who read yesterday from his notes of the deposition taken down hy him on the way back from Ueno as giv , a t, Caminetti and Lola Norris. .be excluded. Second, be asked the court to in struct the Jury to render a verdict of acquittal on the ground that there was ,,o evidence to show the Mann w hite slave traffic net had bem v lo lated, because no intent to profit com merclalU had been shown Judge Van Fleet refused to enter tain either motion and allowed counsel coun-sel for each side two hourB iu which to make their arguments which should place the case with the Jury by noon tomorrow. In oppnlng for the government. Theodore Rorhc based his argument, lurgely on the failure of the defense to attack any of the evidence offered by the government. Admits She Lied. San Francisco, Sept. 3 Lola Norris Nor-ris admitted today in the trial of F. Drew Caminetti for alleged violation of the Mann white slave act that she had given false testimony about her relations with Caminetti Recalled to i the stand to explain her first efforts to shield Caminetti nnd Maury I Dlggs. immediately after their arrest ar-rest at Reno, she owned frankly that she had not told the truth and to that extent her credibility as a witness wit-ness and the value of her story to the government was shaken, but her explanation was that she had lied to savo the man she loved and whom she then trusted. Mrs. Caminetti followed fol-lowed her with testimony throwing Interesting side-lights on the "eternal triangle" but in the main a repetition repeti-tion of what she had privately told for the benefit of Dlggs. at his trial. She made a willing and even nn eager witness for her husband Tomorrow. To-morrow. Caminetti will begin his personal per-sonal defense with his own account of how he happened "Incidentally and accidentally' to leave his wife In Sacramento with a baby three weeks old, while he fled across the California Cali-fornia line with Lola Norris Caminetti does not deny his acts, he seeks to qualify them b the motives mo-tives from which they sprang. His defense, as stated today by hi6 counsel, coun-sel, is to all Intents and purposes the tame as that put forward by his companion, com-panion, Diggs, convicted on like charges. Although Caminetti had expected to testify in person today, the government gov-ernment forestalled him and instead he listened to his own words as taken tak-en down by W E. Doau. a Sacramento Sacramen-to court reporter, in reply to the questions of F. F. Atkinsoiv assistant district attorney of Sacramento c.oun-t. c.oun-t. after the Reno arrests. It was to I Mkinson that Lola Norris admitted today she had lied In the course of the interrogatory, the accuracy of which Caminetti does not question, as taken down by Doan, he repeatedlj admitted that he had promised to marry Miss Norris aftei he should have obtained a divorce from his wife on the ground of physical phys-ical cruelty Replies by Miss Norri.s, in part to questions of Mr Atkinson and in part to those he permitted Caminetti to ask. also were taken down bv Doan at the same time and were read bv him from his notps today. With its production of this testimony, testi-mony, the government rested abruptly abrupt-ly Mrs Caminetti on Stand. Marshall Wood won h chief counsel for the defense, in stating his i announced that the statement Blade in the train bv the defendant m District Dis-trict Attornev Atkinson was a "frame up" bew tern Diggs and Caminetti to protect the girls." Mrs Caminetti, on the witness stand, testified to her husband s nervousness, ner-vousness, sleeplessness and lack of appetite during the week before he left her and of her threats to , carr, their domestic infelicities to the Juvenile, Ju-venile, rourt. ' told him I'd been to see Judgt Hughes" she said, and he replied Mv Cod girl' Haven, 1 worries enough?'. 1 had been told he waj going around with these girls. I tolj him that Mrs. Diggs and I had had several conversations about it and had been advised to bring sui against Mr Warrington, if Miss War-rfngton War-rfngton didn't stop going around jlUj our husbands she was boasUng of it we were .old and both the girls .aid thev dldn'l care if 'he mj a were married' They should worry was whut they said." . al,f p t Leltch, a Sacramento chauffeur chauf-feur horrified .Judge Van Fleet by SXIng bluntly how he had beard ,,r landlord. D.epent.roek gn e him hell" with sulphurous embelllsh- "" non'i express your opinion of Mr Dlepenhrocks conversation; warned the Judge, giving a furious tug at his mSuitache "Tell us In bis exact "o,ds if you can, what Mr Diepen-brock Diepen-brock said " . No doubt Judge Van Flee, mean veil but the literal quotation that followed nearly blew him out of his caminetti s testimony tomorrow is not expected to consume more than half an hour on direct examination, and the defense should rest by noon. oo |
