Show WHITE SLAVERS SENTENCED TO ISLAND Diggs Given T Term of Two Years Caminetti Eighteen Months Stay of Execution for tOI Ten Days Is Granted APPEAL TO BE MADE FOR WRIT OF ERROR SAX SAN CAN FRANCISCO Sept 17 Two years cars in iii the thc fc federal eral penitentiary peni peni- leut arr on McNeil cN cil island Washington Wash Vash ington and a n fine finc of or 2000 WOO is the price Maury aur I I. Diggs former state stale architect of California must pa pay for his flight to Reno with Marsha MarshaI I V Warrington arrin arlington tolt a Sacramento sorority zill Eighteen months in ill the same prison on and a n fine finc of ol 1300 was as the tile penalty imposed on Oil his friend and I companion F. F Drew Caminetti son SOIl I of Anthon Antimony Anthony Caminetti United States commiss commissioner g general of immigration im mi- migration for a n like offense c. c Caminetti Caminetti Cam Cam- metti eloped wi with Marsha r Wai arring- arring arrington rington's ring ring- ton tons ton's 5 friend frien Lola Lla X orris II In designating the thc prison where sentence should be cx executed Jud Yan e Van Pl Fleet et of th tile the United Stat States s district court first t named San an penitentiary a state Institution after alter listening to ar arguments in hi which couns counsel l for fOt the thed d defense fen c quoted d the f federal deral statutes s and the thc cases to show that th there re existed no precedent and no cl of or the tho law forbidding the tho court from specifyIng a county count Jail or a state penitentiary In Instead In- In stead o of a federal penitentiary when the term to be fH served ned was A for more than one otle year For less than one year car sentence to a county count jail was man manda nanda- a. a t tor tory 0 ry Amended m Original n oc The families preferred a county count jail and Ju Judge e Van Yan Fleet was willing milling to show how them consideration but not to the full extent of or th their lr desires When hen the they objected to San m Quentin where Di gs and Caminetti would associate with housebreakers hl highwaymen hamon and pickpockets he ho amended the sentence to read McNeil Icell Island subject to the tho conc concurrence of or the attorney general which he did not doubt he should hould ob ob ob- tam tain While both men stood under conviction conviction tion Uon of ot violating the Mann Iann white slave sla traffic act Judge Van Yan Fleet In pronouncing pronouncing pro pro- sentence toda today agreed with counsel for or the tho defense that the statute was not Intended by uy Its author to cover such uch offenses RB Be those admitted b by the defendants Demoralized b by Drink This was a 1 crime of or opportunity said ald Jud Judge c can c'an Van an Fleet In passing sea sen tence I l 1 mean that the laxity of oC so social so so- cial conditions and the lack hack o of parental control made it possible I wish further to say a that all through this ca case e there Is Ig the evidence that drink had Its Ih paralyzing influences morals and the minds the n es upon of these men and these e two oung young girls with whom the they went vent on that trip to Reno liermo The terrible debasing debasing- Influence of or the saloon tho the deadfall and the roadhouses is too disgustingly apparent apparent apparent ent In this pitiful situation and I make th the observation here that society must pay par the thc price for permitting tho existence existence exist exist- ence o of these highly objectionable p places laces This does not help me mc to exculpate these defendants I agree with coun coun- Continued on Page c 1 t. t Column 1 1 i Ii DIGGS GIVEN TWO TO r YEARS CAMINETTI EIGHTEEN MONTHS I V II I Remain Free on Bail While Counsel Perfect Appeal forc for c Writ of Error r i Continued From Pa Page c 1 V sol 1 that the de' de derce degree of or the offense oense com com- b by these men if ir tho the court can bo permitted to refer reter to df degrees decrees rees of this th crime where tho the Mann fann act ails fails ailsto V to is not as ns grave a R as in ca cases cs where hero men m transport women from one state to another for the purposes of or prostitution tion tion-or tion for gain gRin The act orl originally did not contemplate cases of or this character charac charac- ter nor Wl S it the Intention of or Con- Con Mann an aH expressed to the congressional commItto in explaining the the thc original bill that it should Hut in the bill bill added that any tra transportation to for tor an any Im- Im HUl uI lit i IK YV VII L' L 1 ported was openly exposed to de debauchery tie tie- baucher should be unlawful nn and that brought rought these thele cases within the purView pur- pur View of or tha statute Congress failed to alter the thc last portion portion por par tion Hon of oC the act which gave the statute Us Its common name the white whito slave traffic fie lie fic act and in so eo falling failing left letl tho means b by wh Ich th the general misunderstanding I nS' nS and have 0 come I abou about t. t 8 and seemed unconcerned corned when sentence was pronounced 4 A A. few tew minutes later litter the they laughed and chatted with the newspaper er men over their plight The mother ant and brother of netti and the thc wife rie and father of or DI DIggs 8 were in court The mother and the father lather listened with ith jj bowed heads to Judge Jude Van Fleets Fleet's words word Mrs Irs Diggs stared blankly h at the tile giving no sign that she realized what hot his words mean meant t. t r The usual motions for or a new nc trial ant and for or arrest of at Judgment were de de- de flied nied Judge Van Fleet granted grante however how how- ever cr a stay star of at execution for ten days dars during which the the- defendants will bout bi h. out nut on bail ball fixed at and 1000 respectively while their counsel are perfecting an appeal to the United States s circuit court of ot appeals for tor a writ of ot reversible re error which t If Ir granted would entail new trials I V |